carbon taxchallengesminingpolicy.The study aims to review the sustainability challenges pertaining to the implementation of carbon tax in the South African mining industry. The primary objective of the South African government in imposing carbon tax is to reduce greenhouse gase emissions (GHG) a...
The carbon tax is a kind of consumption tax based on the carbon content or carbon dioxide emission of fossil fuels. According to Pearce (1991), the carbon tax has the effect of "double dividend”: it does not only improve the environmental quality but offsets the income from carbon tax ag...
South Africa $0.1 In Canada, the total carbon tax revenue includes both national and provincial taxes. While carbon pricing has been recognized internationally as one of the more efficient mechanisms for reducing CO2 emissions, research is divided over what the global average carbon price should be...
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South Africa's new carbon tax has provoked a storm of criticism from environmental campaigners who say it is too weak—and from industry that predicts it will cause mass job losses.
The very long running discussion on a carbon tax continued in South Africa with the prospect of a system emerging in 2019, although the parliamentary process has yet to conclude. But this is not the required profile of action for a world that is intent on reaching the goals of the Paris ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was conceived out of the need to assess the effects the South African carbon tax policywill have on the performance of top ranked companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange justprior to the policy's implementation in January 2017. These firms are not only huge con...
"The bank is already working on carbon tax in South Africa, market infrastructure in Morocco and Tunisia, and feasibility of carbon pricing in Cote d'Ivoire," he added. He cautioned delegates to put their strategies in order and start focusing on climate change with emphasis since Africa remai...
South Africa may need to delay carbon tax. The African nation had proposed to implement a carbon tax starting on Jan. 1, 2015 that would have covered emissions from all stationary sectors. Under the proposed program, over the first five years to 2020 the carbon tax would be 120 Z... W...
calculate sector- or sector-fuel-level average –not marginal –carbon prices and account for tax-free emissions allowances (as in the case of, e.g., the South Africa carbon tax) and freely allocated emissions allowances in emissions trading systems in the calculation of the economy-wide ...