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Tuesday 15:00-15:30
Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listener's questions and concerns.
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Listen to 9 January 2007
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Tuesday 9 January 2007
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Global Fossil Fuel Levy



91热爆 Planet listener and Oceanographer, Pat Hyder proposed a global fossil fuel levy to both tackle climate change and address poverty in the developing world. This is the extract from his, yet unpublished, paper:

Given the widespread current concern regarding our failure to control carbon dioxide emissions and the expected depletion of oil, gas and coal resources, it would seem timely to re-examine the feasibility of a levy on fossil fuels (i.e. a form of carbon tax). A novel approach would be to implement the levy globally and use the sizeable revenue generated to finance investment in sustainable development and the reduction of poverty. The recent International Energy Agency report 'Energy Technology Perspectives - Scenarios and Strategies to 2050' states 'the world is not heading for a sustainable energy future' and 'this alarming outlook can be changed but it will require substantial investment' in energy efficiency and technology. Furthermore G8 2005 aid objectives towards the UN Millennium Development Goals require large increases in aid investment. Such a levy would therefore constitute an integrated approach to achieving accepted climate, energy and development goals, for which funding will anyway need to be sourced. It would, of course, be na茂ve to imagine that international agreement on such a levy would be easy to attain, and details such as waivers for developing countries would need to be determined. Present circumstances, however, require that every avenue should be explored.

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