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9
Note this assumption is not overly restrictive.
As detailed in Section 2.3, this rate is even
likely to be
decreasing
.
10
As is characteristic of the functioning of the
EU ETS, there is a one-year delay in the
accounting of verified emissions. Thus, the
2010 compliance event will occur in May
2011.
11
Indeed, the HFC global warming potential is
11,700 times higher than CO
2
, and thus each
ton of HFC abated delivers 11,700 CERs.
12
The N
2
O global warming potential is 310
times higher than CO
2
.
