Nowaday people concern about green movement. Unlike Thailand, EU are more concern about the environment. In the article "EU considers general carbon tax", this is an interest movement that Thailand should adopt this idea.
According to article, author state that "The European Commission is planning an EU-wide minimum tax on carbon as part of the EU's green energy agenda ". Some countries such as Sweden, Finland and Denmark already impose the carbon tax. The tax was set at 17 euros (£15) per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide (CO2).Commissioner Semeta said the adoption of carbon taxes "on a larger, European scale seems desirable, as they would undoubtedly encourage innovation to strengthen energy efficiency and environmental protection". However, UK and France do not support the idea of a mandatory pan-European carbon tax.
Accually, I support EU and Thailand to impose a carbon tax. This tax will discorage people activities to release CO2 which causes a global warming. This movement will be benifit to the social. People will have a healty life, and government will have more money to improve the country.
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References
EU considers general carbon tax.(2010, March 5).The BBC News.Retrived March 8, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8552604.stm
Sunday 7 March 2010
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This is a good policy concerning environmental issue. However, it might be very difficult to realize in developing country because most business would put the objection that it would reduce their competitiveness. Maybe, there need some common standard worldwide that put this regulation on every business in the world so that this measure would not affect their competitiveness. Maybe, some standard like ISO14000 would help.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Liu, who agrees in principle, but has concerns about the practical issues, I disagree in principle.
ReplyDeleteI do think that the scientific consensus that global warming is real is correct, and it does seem likely, although far less certain, that human activity, especially our pumping of carbon into teh atmosphere, has been at least one contributory factor; nonetheless, it does not seem to me to follow that the best solution must be to force reductions in carbon output at a high economic cost.
As Liu suggests, the economic cost of reducing carbon emissions could be considerable, and also unequal. Unlike other pollutants, carbon is not particularly harmful to human beings or other animals - in the quantities at issue, it is not a problem for our breathing or anything else. I think that other, more radical but much cheaper solutions are available, such as pumping sulphur or reflective dust into the upper-atmosphere to counter the effects of increasing carbon.
I wonder why this cheaper and more effective option, and similar ones, is not so popular as the less practical and far more costly carbon tax ideas?