- 16 Jul 2013 08:51
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I'm struggling to understand the Coalition's Climate Change Policy.
My understanding.
There's a fund (funded by the tax payer) which accepts tenders for projects to reduce carbon emissions with the bets value ($ for carbon emissions reduction)
How isnt this a NOT a carbon tax? Will pay 3 billion dollars (is that ongoing? for a period, last night on late line they mention $32 billion over 10 years ) but their website (lib) is short of detail here. This is money which is raised by everyone regardless of weather they ise various carbon emitting products or services. (which means there is no real incentive for the consumer to change to lower carbon behaviour or for Businesses to do so)
If carbon emissions raise greater (and if doing business that emits carbon is profitable it should ) the funding of these schemes has to increase.
And what bearcuacy and oversight on these carbon emission tenders? Surely you not going to take the tender's claims at face value. Evaluating on the exact value of whatever schemes are tendered is going to take a lot of work and people, who is going to pay for that?
It just seems a little crazed.
Has someone got a firmer grasp that can explain how it works?]
My understanding.
There's a fund (funded by the tax payer) which accepts tenders for projects to reduce carbon emissions with the bets value ($ for carbon emissions reduction)
How isnt this a NOT a carbon tax? Will pay 3 billion dollars (is that ongoing? for a period, last night on late line they mention $32 billion over 10 years ) but their website (lib) is short of detail here. This is money which is raised by everyone regardless of weather they ise various carbon emitting products or services. (which means there is no real incentive for the consumer to change to lower carbon behaviour or for Businesses to do so)
If carbon emissions raise greater (and if doing business that emits carbon is profitable it should ) the funding of these schemes has to increase.
And what bearcuacy and oversight on these carbon emission tenders? Surely you not going to take the tender's claims at face value. Evaluating on the exact value of whatever schemes are tendered is going to take a lot of work and people, who is going to pay for that?
It just seems a little crazed.
Has someone got a firmer grasp that can explain how it works?]
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