rights to pollute

基本解释

So he remains suspicious of cap-and-trade schemes, whereby governments place an overall limit on emissions, and then sell or give away an equivalent number of tradable rights to pollute.
所以，他仍然對限量與貿易系統持懷疑態度。在限量與貿易系統裡，政府會設立一個縂的溫室氣躰排放上限，然後出售或分發與之相等的汙染的貿易權利[1] 。

Of course, once Obama (reluctantly) embraced the idea of trading rights to pollute, the GOP repudiated the concept.
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