上海市碳排放交易试点工作启动大会16日在此间召开，钢铁、石化、化工等行业的200家碳排放“大户”获得初始碳排放配额的免费分配。
Shanghai (CNS) -- Shanghai has launched a plan to issue carbon emission quotas to enterprises in a bid to reduce pollution.
About 200 heavy polluting companies in the steel, petrochemical and other industries will participate in the plan, the city government said Thursday.
Companies that fail to meet emission cut targets must buy quotas from companies whose emission cuts exceed targets.
The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has designated seven pilot locations for the carbon trading scheme, namely Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, and the provinces of Hubei and Guangdong.
The NDRC asked the locations to formulate their own plans by the end of 2012.
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