Carbon Fund Bill 2006
Public bill · Government · Presented
Creates a Carbon Fund to let the State buy Kyoto Units—each representing one tonne of carbon-dioxide equivalent—to meet its international climate obligations. The National Treasury Management Agency would manage the fund, with temporary advances from the Central Fund repaid through the Environment Minister’s budget, and its accounts audited and reported to the Oireachtas.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Carbon Fund to be utilised for the acquisition of Kyoto Units and other such instruments or assets by the State to meet international climate change obligations under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to that Convention, to designate the National Treasury Management Agency as the agent for the acquisition, including on foot of existing or future agreements to which the State is or becomes bound, of Kyoto Units and such other instruments or assets on behalf of the State, to provide for the making available of financial resources to and the use and management of the Carbon Fund, to provide for consequential amendments to existing legislation and to provide for related matters
Last updated 13 April 2018
- Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Primary
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- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage Seanad
- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Report and Final Stages. Dáil
- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil
- Carbon Fund Bill 2006: Second Stage. Dáil