Legislative adaptations: Difference between revisions
From WikiDemocracy
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
|image_height=200 | |image_height=200 | ||
}} | }} | ||
=====How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution===== | |||
===== The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/the-cop28-climate-agreement-is-a-step-backwards-on-fossil-fuels-219753 by Alaa Al Khourdajie 13/12/23 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels. This text, agreed upon by delegates from nearly 200 countries, calls for the world to move “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner”. Stronger demands to “phase out” fossil fuels were ultimately unsuccessful. | |||
===== How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution ===== | |||
<embed>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-set-a-price-on-carbon-pollution/</embed> | <embed>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-set-a-price-on-carbon-pollution/</embed> | ||
Still, enacting a carbon tax will be a big political lift. If a window does open for it, climate scientists, economists and politicians need to be ready to pounce. They will need to get it right the first time. And they will need to explain why a specific tax rate is justified. | Still, enacting a carbon tax will be a big political lift. If a window does open for it, climate scientists, economists and politicians need to be ready to pounce. They will need to get it right the first time. And they will need to explain why a specific tax rate is justified. | ||
