silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · 1 year ago‘Under no circumstances’: John Kerry rules out U.S. paying climate reparations to low-income countrieswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down12
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minus-squareMrMakabarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoIf you look at carbon intensity of GDP, the US is actually below global average and Europe especially western Europe is at about half of it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity That obviously makes it a bad tool to pay for carbon debt, as it hurts poorer countries.
minus-squareabessmanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoA just global carbon taxation system would need to take into account historical emissions.
minus-squareMrMakabarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI would just go for a carbon tax, without historic emissions and a wealth tax to hit the people who are actually benefiting from historic emissions. Thats propably about as fair as it gets.
If you look at carbon intensity of GDP, the US is actually below global average and Europe especially western Europe is at about half of it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity
That obviously makes it a bad tool to pay for carbon debt, as it hurts poorer countries.
A just global carbon taxation system would need to take into account historical emissions.
I would just go for a carbon tax, without historic emissions and a wealth tax to hit the people who are actually benefiting from historic emissions. Thats propably about as fair as it gets.