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Climate Change Act 2008

Part 3: Trading Schemes

13.Part 3 and Schedules 2, 3 and 4 provide the Secretary of State and the devolved administrations with powers to set up trading schemes relating to greenhouse gas emissions though secondary legislation. Trading schemes may limit activities that lead, directly or indirectly, to emissions of greenhouse gases (for example, by capping emissions from a particular set of activities and allow trading of emissions within the cap), or they may encourage activities that directly or indirectly lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions or the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

14.Before making regulations to establish a trading scheme the Secretary of State and/or devolved administration concerned must seek and take into account the advice of the Committee on Climate Change, and must consult those likely to be affected by the regulations.

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