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2.A clear commitment to the global pricing of carbon that allows businesses to invest with confidence and at the scale required.
At this time of financial turmoil, a global deal in Copenhagen needs to bring world leaders together in a strong, clear message to business: follow the low carbon path, we will support you all the way.
Acting on their own, nation-states can successfully address neither tax avoidance nor carbon emissions.
Wood stores carbon, owing to photosynthesis.
So, taking land for the production of bio-fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio-fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.
Such taxes play a crucial role in cutting the carbon emissions that cause climate change.
Euro for euro, dollar for dollar, yen for yen: energy and carbon taxes have a lower negative impact on a nation’s economy, consumption, and jobs than income tax and VAT.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.
Energy and carbon taxes can raise revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.
This is not the only reason why looking more closely at energy and carbon taxes makes sense.
Most energy and carbon taxes are levied by national governments.
But, first, the issues depressing the carbon price must be addressed.
Energy and carbon taxes can produce less economic pain and more gain than conventional taxes can.
Europe needs fiscal consolidation, reductions in carbon emissions, and a strategy for economic growth.
But India does not have the access to inexpensive natural gas, which has allowed the US to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in recent years.
Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States – the world’s largest historical carbon dioxide emitter – from the Paris agreement dealt the accord a major blow.
And processing and transport add a significant carbon footprint.
According to a 2013 study by the scientist Rick Heede, nearly two-thirds of carbon dioxide emitted since the 1750s can be traced to just 90 of the largest fossil fuel- and cement-producing entities, most of which still operate.
Human actions – burning fossil fuels – have already raised the carbon dioxide concentration higher than it has ever been in the last 500,000 years, and it is rising by about 0.5 % a year.
Then, in a stunning deus ex machina, it will be revealed that the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies – the so-called supermajors – have agreed to bring net emissions to zero by 2100, by capturing carbon at the source, sucking it out of the atmosphere, and storing it underground.
The effort that will receive the greatest amount of attention is bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
Deploying BECCS, however, would require the world to maintain an area 1.5 times the size of India, full of fields or forests capable of absorbing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, while still providing enough food for a global population that is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050.
Fossil-fuel producers promote carbon capture to allow them to keep their mines open and pumps flowing.
Unlike carbon capture, obstructing sunlight actually has the potential to lower global temperatures.
Each set of researchers adopted a standardized approach and studied proposals as diverse as linking farmers to the international carbon market, improving rice production, setting up flood warning systems, creating paid paternity leave to get more women into the formal workforce, and teaching young children in their native language of Creole instead of French.
Will they be allowed to emit carbon dioxide as in the past?
Instead of discussing how ineffective public transport and polluted air was making life worse for billions of people, the talk centered on carbon trading, emissions trajectories, and the industrialization of China.
It is therefore a good time to introduce carbon taxes, so that the oil windfall is not simply gobbled up at the gas station.
(Never mind that there is little evidence to suggest that a well-signaled, progressive implementation of a carbon tax would weigh on growth.)
Unless we are extraordinarily fortunate and learn that climatologists have overlooked some enormously important channels of carbon sequestration, the models predicting global warming will still be grimly accurate in 2009.
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