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The National Transport Token scheme evolved from the practice of many local authorities in the UK of issuing concessionary fare tokens to certain groups of people under their jurisdiction. In 1967, Manchester Corporation and Droylsden Urban District Council combined their concessionary fare initiatives to produce a token available across both ...
A Waitrose 'Community Matters' charity token A Waitrose customer services partner serving a customer during the Christmas period at Putney Waitrose and its related brands are owned by the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), which is itself owned by its employees, referred to within the organization as "partners."
In Europe, several countries have implemented a white certificate scheme or are seriously considering doing so. Great Britain started in 2002, [2] Italy in January 2005; [3] [4] France [5] [2] and Denmark a year later. Great Britain has combined its obligation system for energy savings with the possibility to trade obligations and savings.
The John Lewis Partnership plc [1] (JLP) is a British company that operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose supermarkets, financial services and a build to rent operation. The public limited company [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is owned by a trust [ 2 ] on behalf of all its employees, known as Partners, who share the responsibilities and ...
The scheme was announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak during the July 2020 Summer Statement. [2] A total of £2 billion was earmarked for the scheme. [3] In November 2020, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the scheme would be extended for an extra year, until the end of March 2022. [4] The scheme closed to new applications at the end of ...
An alternative approach to the problem of public authentication of public key information is the web-of-trust scheme, which uses self-signed certificates and third-party attestations of those certificates. The singular term "web of trust" does not imply the existence of a single web of trust, or common point of trust, but rather one of any ...
One particular motivating example is the use of commitment schemes in zero-knowledge proofs.Commitments are used in zero-knowledge proofs for two main purposes: first, to allow the prover to participate in "cut and choose" proofs where the verifier will be presented with a choice of what to learn, and the prover will reveal only what corresponds to the verifier's choice.
The concept is also known as cap and trade (CAT) or emissions trading scheme (ETS). One prominent example is carbon emission trading for CO 2 and other greenhouse gases which is a tool for climate change mitigation .