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Ahead of next week’s LIA meeting on the same theme, industry sage, James Cryer, wades into the debate between the two competing climate-change policy instruments – carbon tax v emissions trading.He reckons it’s like comparing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and that both miss the point.
Only a climate-change scheme that taxes usage at the input stage will work, as people or companies only respond to the ‘pain’ charged on what they are using, not what they’re emitting into the atmosphere. If governments were fair dinkum, they could implement such taxes tomorrow, along with subsidies on alternate energy use.
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11-02-15 Carbon tax or trading – just so much hot air
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