This Act is intended to reduce greenhouse gas, (designated by the Federal Council) emissions and in particular CO2 emissions that are attributable to the use of fossil fuels as energy sources with the aim of contributing to limiting the global rise in temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius. For fossil fuels are intended thermal and motor fuels, used for the generation of heat, the production of light, the production of electricity in thermal facilities or the operation of combined heat and power plants the first ones, used in combustion engines to produce power the latter. The Act is made of 50 articles organized in 9 chapters. the first chapter is dedicated to the definition of the objectives of the Act, as described above, and to the identification of the reduction target and the measures and the requirements to be used to assess the results. Chapter two, composed by two sections, is dedicated to the technical measures, concerning buildings (section 1) and passenger cars, vans and light articulated vehicles (section 2) to be adopted to reduce CO2 emissions. Chapter three just identifies the timber used in construction as a carbon sink. Chapter four is dedicated to the emissions trading and compensation, particularly to the emission trading scheme (ETS) to which operators of installations belonging to a specific category may or must apply to participate, depending on whether the level of greenhouse gas emissions they cause is high or moderate. This chapter also faces the refund functioning and the emission allowances for category. Chapter 5 treats the CO2 Ley, its imposition (section 1) as well as the possibility of its refund for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (sections 2, 3 and 4). Chapter six covers the use of revenues derived from the CO2 levy. Chapter 7 regards the implementation of the Act and the promotion measures finalized to such implementation. Chapter eight is dedicated to criminal provisions related to the application of the Act (evasion of the levy, false information etc.). Chapter 9 terminate the Act with final provisions.