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The Case for a Global Carbon Tax; Options: The only way to slow climate change is to make coal more expensive and alternatives cheaper.
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CORRECTION: Correction: Fareed Zakaria's April 16 column ("The Case for a Global Carbon Tax") contained an error. U.S. energy consumption is 1.3 times greater than it was 30 years ago, not three times greater. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.
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Byline: Fareed Zakaria
The Bush administration made two notable statements on energy policy early in its tenure. They were both highly controversial. The first was that the Kyoto accords, as negotiated, were "dead." The second was Dick Cheney's declaration in a 2001 speech that "conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." As it happens, both are accurate and should be at the heart of any new, ambitious policy to tackle global warming and energy use. If you haven't fainted yet, let me explain what I mean.
The administration had several narrow-minded and callous reasons for rejecting Kyoto, but among its main arguments was that the accords did not include developing countries and thus ...
- COLLECTION OF CARBON TAX PROPOSED IN CHINA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News September 28, 2009 700+ words
...Sept 28 Asia Pulse - China should levy a carbon tax, based on the existing...would have been without a carbon tax. Jiang also suggested China release the time schedule...Research, also suggested China levy a carbon tax to protect the profitability...
- China : COLLECTION OF CARBON TAX PROPOSED IN CHINA.
- News wire article from: TendersInfo September 30, 2009 700+ words
China should levy a carbon tax, based on the existing...presided over by Jiang. China is considering seriously on a carbon tax. Related government...would have been without a carbon tax. Jiang also suggested China release the time schedule...
- ECONOMIST APPEALS FOR IMMEDIATE CARBON TAX IN CHINA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News September 8, 2009 700+ words
...Asia Pulse - China should introduce a carbon tax as soon as possible...enacting of its own carbon tax bill on overseas...profitability of China's exporting...statute books. The carbon tax would certainly...negative impact on China's economic...
- China terms carbon tax protectionism.
- News wire article from: UPI Energy Resources September 16, 2009 700+ words
China says a proposed carbon tax on imported goods from countries...amount to trade protectionism, China Daily reported. The carbon tax as it relates to climate change...S. Congress in June, the China Daily said beginning 2020 its...
- CHINA MULLING CARBON TAX: RESEARCHER.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News April 21, 2009 700+ words
...have conducted study on carbon tax for a year, China is likely to levy the...a timetable for the carbon tax, but it is hard to...The threshold for carbon tax will not be too high, he stressed. China has formed an energy...
- CHINA'S CARBON TAX SCHEME LIKELY TO COME OUT IN ONE MONTH, REPORT.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 4, 2009 700+ words
...taxes, and the included carbon tax scheme is predicted to...tax under study includes carbon tax on carbon dioxide emissions...likely be replaced by the carbon tax, saying that the former...are an urgent task for China's economic development...
- Carbon tax picks up support outside US.
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily O'Neil, Lauren October 16, 2009 700+ words
...emissions allowances, while carbon tax proposals from some lawmakers...Outside of the US, however, a carbon tax is now under serious review by China, Japan and the European Union...Nicolas Sarkozy aims to impose a carbon tax in his country in early 2010...
- Carbon tax under review by Chinese authorities, report says.
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily Merolli, Paul September 24, 2009 700+ words
...be implemented until China initiates a resource...on how to roll out a carbon tax by 2012, the year when...existing Kyoto Accord. China has surpassed the US...by 2050. The US and China have held many discussions...commitment by Beijing to a carbon tax could put the onus ...