Domestic Tradable Quotas (or DTQs) are one term for carbon allowances allocated under a national carbon rationing scheme. They were renamed as Tradeable Energy Quotas (TEQs) by their original creator, David Fleming.
Further reading
- http://www.dtqs.org/ (former home for http://www.teqs.net/)
- Investigating Domestic Tradable Quotas – A policy instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy use, by the Tyndall Centre (2004)