The Canadian province of Ontario has taken a key step toward establishing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions with the provincial legislature's Dec. 3 passage of the Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), Environment Minister John Gerretsen said. The legislation, introduced May 27, allows Ontario to link its cap-and-trade program with similar systems in North America and abroad (32 INER 502, 6/10/09). Alignment of all cap-and-trade systems would maximize trading opportunities and help the province's industries reduce their emissions at the lowest cost, Gerretsen said in a statement. The bill's amendments to the Environmental Protection Act are a key element of the province's efforts to meet its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent from 1990 levels by 2014, and by 15 percent by 2020.
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机译：环境部部长约翰·格里特森说，加拿大安大略省已通过建立省级立法机关的温室气体排放权交易的重要一步，该立法是在12月3日通过的《环境保护修正法》（温室气体排放权交易）。 5月27日出台的该法案允许安大略将其总量管制与交易计划与北美和国外的类似系统联系起来（32 INER 502，6/10/09）。盖雷特森在一份声明中说，所有限额交易制度的统一将最大程度地增加贸易机会，并帮助该省的工业以最低的成本减少排放。该法案对《环境保护法》的修正是该省努力实现其承诺的承诺的关键要素，该承诺是到2014年将温室气体排放量从1990年的水平减少6％，到2020年减少15％。
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