Setting Emissions Standards for Each Industry, While Allowing Companies to Trade

question 47

Multiple Choice

Setting emissions standards for each industry, while allowing companies to trade "carbon credits," is an approach to environmental policy known as ________.

• A) cap and trade
• B) the green alternative
• C) NIMBY
• D) the Gore protocol

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Definitions:

Normative Study

An investigation or research aimed at understanding what is considered normal or typical behavior or characteristics in a specific population.

Consumer Behavior

The study of how individual consumers, groups, or organizations select, buy, use, and dispose goods, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy their needs and desires.

Experimental Study

A research methodology that involves the manipulation of variables to observe and measure their effects on a subject group.

Need for Cognition

A personality trait that indicates the level of enjoyment a person gets from engaging in and solving challenging mental activities.