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，他仍然对限量与贸易系统持怀疑态度。在限量与贸易系统里，政府会设立一个总的温室气体排放上限，然后出售或分发与之相等的污染的贸易权利[1] 。

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