Carbon Tax – Rhein on Energy and Climate

Archives for Carbon Tax

Sharing Of Green Technology? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

October 28, 2009

50 days ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Conference a new theme re-enters the debate between developed and developing countries: free transfer of green energy technologies to developing countries. India and China are particularly vociferous in demanding such technologies to be made accessible to their companies free of license fees, citing the example of anti-retroviral drugs… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

English

, Carbon Tax, China, Copenhagen Climate Conference, HIV, India

The EU Should Not Introduce A Carbon Border Tax

October 24, 2009

Politicians have little time to think and therefore often come up with bizarre ideas. One of these is the carbon border tax proposed by President Sarkozy and favoured also by other politicians in Europe. A carbon border tax is an instrument for protecting European industries against imports of carbon-intensive products like cement, steel, aluminium or… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

Climate change, Economy & Euro, English, Environment, Trade & Industry, Uncategorized

, Carbon Border Tax, carbon leakage, Carbon Tax, carbon-intensive products, European competitiveness

Humanity Needs A Universal Carbon Tax

September 24, 2009

Whatever the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, humanity will need a simple and effective tool for making fossil energy increasingly more expensive and renewable energies relatively cheaper. An excise tax on coal, oil and gas would constitute such a tool. • The tax should be specific and not ad valorem, levied at the import… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

English, Uncategorized

, C02 emissions, Carbon Tax, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Michel Rocard, ossil energy tax, Pittsburgh G20

An EU Carbon Tax must be Effective

July 8, 2009

The Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, wants to make the fight against climate change a top priority of the Swedish Presidency. To that end, he has proposed that member states introduce a C02 tax as a complement to the December 2008 EU- climate package. He is fully aware that such a tax would not be… » read more

Posted by Eberhard Rhein

English, Uncategorized

, Carbon Tax, CO2 emissions, Fredrik Reinfeldt, low-carbon society, Swedish Presidency

Archives for Carbon Tax

Sharing Of Green Technology? A Bogus In The Climate Debate

The EU Should Not Introduce A Carbon Border Tax

Humanity Needs A Universal Carbon Tax

An EU Carbon Tax must be Effective

Rhein on Energy and Climate

Advertisement