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  • Nations comfortably below greenhouse gas targets under the Kyoto Protocol can sell excess emission rights, called Assigned Amount Units AAUs, to other countries.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Elichpur (Îlichpur) is in Berâr, otherwise known as the Assigned

    Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822

  • Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries were granted a certain number of permits to release greenhouse gases in the atmosphere called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), which are equivalent to one tonne of CO2.

    EurActiv.com 2009

  • Under the Kyoto Protocol, signatory nations that are comfortably below their emissions targets can sell their surpluses in the form of credits, called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), to governments and companies that are short of their goals.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • Under the Kyoto treaty, which expires in 2012, nations that are comfortably below their greenhouse gas emissions targets can sell the difference in the form of rights called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) to countries struggling to meet their own targets.

    Reuters: Top News 2009

  • Under the Kyoto Protocol, individual countries were granted a certain number of permits to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), which are equivalent to one tonne of CO2.

    EurActiv.com 2009

  • Countries which hold the so-called Assigned Amount Units

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

  • Under the Kyoto Protocol, signatory nations that are comfortably below their greenhouse gas emissions targets can sell excess emissions rights, called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), to nations which are struggling to meet their targets.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Gabriela Ba 2009

  • Ukraine will deliver 30 million tonnes of so-called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), half of which will be delivered in the Japanese fiscal year that ends this month and the other half in the next fiscal year, the source said.

    News on www.kyivpost.com 2009

  • Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries were granted a certain number of permits to release greenhouse gases in the atmosphere called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), which are equivalent to one tonne of CO2.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009

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