Interesting progress on carbon tax, in Australia.
Jul 07, 2011: Australia halves carbon tax list to 500 companies
Gillard told Parliament on Thursday that 500 companies that are among Australia’s worst carbon polluters would pay the tax starting July next year.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/59472/australia-halves-carbon-tax-list-to-500-companies/
Jul 10, 2011: Australia set to unveil carbon price
"From July 1 next year, the freedom to pollute our skies will cease. Two decades of denial and delay will come to an end. Polluters will have to pay."
Reports have suggested that carbon dioxide emissions will initially be taxed at A$23 (US$24.70) per tonne, on a par with the European Union's emissions trading scheme.
Major mining companies such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata are expected to be hit by the tax, liable for a combined A$380 million under a conservative price of A$20 a tonne, according to modelling by the Australian Financial Review.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/1139983/1/.html
Jul 11,2011: Australia begins selling disputed pollution tax
While Canberra insists the tax on the nation's 500 biggest polluters will help slow global warming and save natural treasures such as the Great Barrier Reef, opponents say it will have little effect on climate change but will cost taxpayers billions and force major industry to slash production and jobs.
"The core of this is those big polluters will pay a price, they're smart business people, when a bill comes in for carbon pollution they'll say, 'How can I reduce that bill, how can I change my processes so I generate less carbon pollution?'."
The prime minister said the new tax, which will be offset by a package of personal tax breaks, was needed to tackle carbon pollution in Australia, one of the world's biggest per capita carbon emitters.
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/60326
Coal, carbon and contradictions
The Prime Minister conveniently ignores the fact that the challenge of reducing emissions is a global problem - the atmosphere does not differentiate between emissions released in Australia or in other parts of the world.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-bishops-gambit/coal-carbon-and-contradictions-20110713-1hcqe.html
Related Readings:
He rejected a carbon tax on fuel. Why? Because the oil companies would fight back. Here's my point: While Obama is a good man, it's banks and money that rule the world.
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2010/04/rewarding-people-who-borrow-for.html
最后大家想到了“环境污染”，它在相当程度上是一个事实，具备可信度，在对环境污染的宣传上下工夫，足以达到核战争后世界末日的恐怖程度；不断地污染环境的确是在经济上非常“浪费”的；人民忍受高税收和降低生活质量，接受政府干预私人生活，为的是“拯救地球母亲”，非常符合逻辑！
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2009/09/report-from-iron-mountain.html
世界环保银行的核心概念就是“以债务替换自然资源”(Debt for Nature Swap)。
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-environment-facility-30.html
Jul 07, 2011: Australia halves carbon tax list to 500 companies
Gillard told Parliament on Thursday that 500 companies that are among Australia’s worst carbon polluters would pay the tax starting July next year.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/59472/australia-halves-carbon-tax-list-to-500-companies/
Jul 10, 2011: Australia set to unveil carbon price
"From July 1 next year, the freedom to pollute our skies will cease. Two decades of denial and delay will come to an end. Polluters will have to pay."
Reports have suggested that carbon dioxide emissions will initially be taxed at A$23 (US$24.70) per tonne, on a par with the European Union's emissions trading scheme.
Major mining companies such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata are expected to be hit by the tax, liable for a combined A$380 million under a conservative price of A$20 a tonne, according to modelling by the Australian Financial Review.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/1139983/1/.html
Jul 11,2011: Australia begins selling disputed pollution tax
While Canberra insists the tax on the nation's 500 biggest polluters will help slow global warming and save natural treasures such as the Great Barrier Reef, opponents say it will have little effect on climate change but will cost taxpayers billions and force major industry to slash production and jobs.
"The core of this is those big polluters will pay a price, they're smart business people, when a bill comes in for carbon pollution they'll say, 'How can I reduce that bill, how can I change my processes so I generate less carbon pollution?'."
The prime minister said the new tax, which will be offset by a package of personal tax breaks, was needed to tackle carbon pollution in Australia, one of the world's biggest per capita carbon emitters.
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/60326
Coal, carbon and contradictions
The Prime Minister conveniently ignores the fact that the challenge of reducing emissions is a global problem - the atmosphere does not differentiate between emissions released in Australia or in other parts of the world.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-bishops-gambit/coal-carbon-and-contradictions-20110713-1hcqe.html
Related Readings:
He rejected a carbon tax on fuel. Why? Because the oil companies would fight back. Here's my point: While Obama is a good man, it's banks and money that rule the world.
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2010/04/rewarding-people-who-borrow-for.html
最后大家想到了“环境污染”，它在相当程度上是一个事实，具备可信度，在对环境污染的宣传上下工夫，足以达到核战争后世界末日的恐怖程度；不断地污染环境的确是在经济上非常“浪费”的；人民忍受高税收和降低生活质量，接受政府干预私人生活，为的是“拯救地球母亲”，非常符合逻辑！
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2009/09/report-from-iron-mountain.html
世界环保银行的核心概念就是“以债务替换自然资源”(Debt for Nature Swap)。
http://howtze.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-environment-facility-30.html
