That did not generate me that much if there was only a percentil of sincerity in this kind of statement!
The government (re) launches the reflection on the carbon tax
The ministers of ecology, Jean-Louis Borloo, and of the economy, Christine Lagarde, officially open on Wednesday 10 June the debate on the creation of a "climate-energy contribution". They put on the table a White Paper exploring the stakes of this idea which, if it succeeds, would be a small revolution in French taxation.
This twenty-page report will be posted online and open for comments until June 24. On July 2 and 3, a consensus conference will bring together the experts and a week later, a "high-level meeting", chaired by former socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard, should draw the conclusions of the debates.
The Secretary of State for Ecology, Chantal Jouanno, assures us that this is "a first step" and that "no decision has been taken". It insists that, if it comes into being, this new tax should not lead to an increase in compulsory levies or undermine purchasing power.
The contribution climate-energy is part of the five proposals of the ecological pact of Nicolas Hulot that Nicolas Sarkozy had committed to put under study at the end of the Grenelle of the environment, in October 2007. By fixing a price to pay for each ton of CO2 emitted, this tax is considered by ecologists as the essential tool to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels.
"This carbon tax would have the particularity of growing steadily each year until the objective of dividing emissions by four is reached. It would apply to everyone, administrations, local authorities, agriculture, fishing, industry , services, households ", explained the pact.
The White Paper does not go that far. It raises above all questions, but it shares this observation: the European market of quotas of CO2 which, through a system of allowances, plans the fall of the emissions of the most polluting industries (iron and steel, cement, glass, refining, paper ...) only sets 40% of the problem. All that comes from road transport, agriculture, heating ... does not include the right price of environmental damage caused by the increase of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
The report notes, for example, that the tax on heating oil amounts to 21 euros per tonne of CO2 in France, for 56 euros on average in Europe and 131 euros in Sweden, a country often cited as an example.
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And how Mister the pipolitics, how will you tax the cleanest of CO2? The one that was not emitted via energy savings?