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UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
mcsmack
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Date: August 05, 2010 06:56PM
Okay here we go guys!
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 5, 12:22 pm ET
BONN, Germany – Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.
British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday that government regulation and public money also will be needed to create incentives for private investment in industries that emit fewer greenhouse gases.
In short, a new industrial revolution is needed to move the world away from fossil fuels to low carbon growth, he said.
"It will be extremely exciting, dynamic and productive," said Stern, one of 18 experts in public finance on an advisory panel appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Oh I bet it will Nick$$$
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 5, 12:22 pm ET
BONN, Germany – Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.
British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday that government regulation and public money also will be needed to create incentives for private investment in industries that emit fewer greenhouse gases.
In short, a new industrial revolution is needed to move the world away from fossil fuels to low carbon growth, he said.
"It will be extremely exciting, dynamic and productive," said Stern, one of 18 experts in public finance on an advisory panel appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Oh I bet it will Nick$$$
Re: UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
Vince(1)
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Date: August 05, 2010 07:26PM
And until we do..we will continue with the illusion of "cheap" energy.
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Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.
Re: UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
Warhawk
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Date: August 05, 2010 07:29PM
Nothing solves a problem with nature better than adding some bullshit tax to go into a government's slush fund to be spent inappropriately.
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Re: UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
Vince(1)
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Date: August 05, 2010 07:38PM
Warhawk Wrote:
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> Nothing solves a problem with nature better than
> adding some bullshit tax to go into a government's
> slush fund to be spent inappropriately.
Well...there is nothing like disagreeing with a concept you do not understand enough to discuss. Your reaction is nothing more then the typical republican knee-jerk reaction to any tax.
Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2010 07:39PM by Vince(1).
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> Nothing solves a problem with nature better than
> adding some bullshit tax to go into a government's
> slush fund to be spent inappropriately.
Well...there is nothing like disagreeing with a concept you do not understand enough to discuss. Your reaction is nothing more then the typical republican knee-jerk reaction to any tax.
Registered Voter...a Big talking coward..big man on FFXU...little man in life.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2010 07:39PM by Vince(1).
Re: UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: August 05, 2010 07:44PM
Yet another move by the United Nations, in their endless bid to run everything in the world.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: August 06, 2010 01:29AM
ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> Yet another move by the United Nations, in their
> endless bid to ruin everything in the world.
i fixed it. ;)
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
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> Yet another move by the United Nations, in their
> endless bid to ruin everything in the world.
i fixed it. ;)
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."