Britain's launched a domestic emissions trading system in May last year to replace the European Union’s ETS after it left the bloc.
Under the ETS, the government sets a gradually decreasing cap on the amount of emissions that a sector, or group of sectors, can produce. It creates carbon permits for those emissions and companies must buy one for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit.
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