{"id":580,"date":"2008-07-25T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/07\/25\/wci_cap-and-trade_draft\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:20:59","slug":"wci_cap-and-trade_draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/07\/25\/wci_cap-and-trade_draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Western States Lead on Carbon Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2008\/07\/sheryl_canter.jpg' alt='Sheryl Canter' height=\"80\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" class=\"blogAuthorPic\" \/><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This week, seven U.S. governors and four Canadian premiers &#8211; partners in the fast-growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernclimateinitiative.org\/\">Western Climate Initiative<\/a> (WCI) &#8211; released a draft design for what would be the largest cap-and-trade market for global warming pollution in North America. The outcome of many public workshops, the draft caps emissions for utilities and industry by 2012, and adds caps for residential, commercial and transportation sources by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>WCI will present the draft at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernclimateinitiative.org\/WCI_Meetings_Events.cfm\">stakeholder workshop and webinar<\/a> in San Diego next week. Environmental Defense Fund experts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=1315\">Derek Walker<\/a>, Jamie Fine and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=13471\">Martha Roberts<\/a> will be there to speak in favor of a firm, binding emissions limit that declines over time, strict standards for offsets, and to remind participants of the economic benefits of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund. 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