• ETS

    Full definition of ETS

    Noun

    ETS

    (countable and uncountable; plural ETSs)
    1. (economics) .
      • 2022-11-29, Damian Carrington, Big polluters given almost €100bn in free carbon permits by EU, Free pollution permits worth €98.5bn were given to energy-intensive sectors .... This is more than the €88.5bn that the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) charged polluters, mostly coal and gas power stations, for their CO2 emissions. ... Carbon emissions covered by the ETS have fallen by 37% since it began in 2005, largely thanks to the growth of renewable energy.
    2. (medicine) .
      • 2010, w:Naomi Oreskes; w:Erik M. Conway, w:Merchants of Doubt Chapter 5, The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.
    3. (military, US) .
    4. (military, US) .

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    ETS

    (plural ETSs)
    1. Initialism of en: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.

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