Carbon Tax

Green energy projects in limbo awaiting Australian poll outcome

28 May 2013

On a line of low hills beside a dry lake bed near Australia's capital, giant turbines turning slowly in a winter breeze give no hint of a multibillion-dollar storm building around renewable energy...

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Beijing hopes carbon dioxide tax will help reduce pollution

20 Feb 2013

Beijing will levy a tax on carbon dioxide emissions as part of new fiscal measures aimed at addressing the mainland's worsening pollution problem, a senior official at the Ministry of Finance said...

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Beijing applauds EU freeze on aviation carbon tax

14 Nov 2012

China, along with the aviation industry, has applauded the European Union's suspension of its carbon tax for one year on flights to and from non-EU countries. The tax faced bitter opposition from...

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Incentives may work where a carbon tax fails

31 Oct 2012

As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's experience with a carbon tax shows, often it is never easy to impose a tax on the vast majority of people to solve a common problem.

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Still time to resolve carbon tax dispute

16 Feb 2012

The European Union has the most comprehensive system of caps on greenhouse emissions of any major polluter. It makes sense to extend them to the aviation industry, a small but increasingly...

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Pollution can be a risky business

16 Sep 2008

Retail investors can get access to the emissions trading market by buying the shares of listed companies that either trade in carbon credits or invest in companies that help polluters reduce...

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