carbon tax
A brief word on the carbon price
Thursday, 3 March 2011
By YCAN Convenor Pablo Brait (www.ycan.org.au)
The Multi-Party Climate Change Committee (MPCCC) made up of Labor, Greens and independents has just released the framework for a carbon price. There are very few details other than the starting date of 1 July 2012 and the notion that it will be a fixed price (essentially a carbon tax) for the first three to five years before shifting to a cap-and-trade scheme. Agriculture will be excluded but all other sectors are potentially included.
The Story of Cap and Trade
This video questions in simple (and entertaining) ways, the effectiveness and justice (or lack-thereof) of Emissions Trading Schemes such as that being proposed by the federal government with its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Trouble watching? View the film on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM&feature=channel
