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Blog Posts

• A price on carbon in North America: Why? Where?

  Keane Gruending

  Carbon taxes and cap and trade systems are spreading throughout North America.

• Let's talk carbon tax... again

  Christopher Gully

  Though we’ve been talking about tobacco taxation for decades, it was only in 2008 that “carbon tax” became a commonly heard phrase in Canada.

• BC’s Carbon Tax: coming to terms with the “T” word

  Christopher Gully

  British Columbia’s Carbon Tax has been getting a lot of media attention in the last few days, and rightly so. While it is not without its skeptics, much of the opposition seems to grow out of a misunderstanding of how the tax works.

• Why the carbon tax is good for your wallet

  Claire Havens

  For well over a decade Dr. Olewiler has been a major proponent of pricing carbon and using extra revenue for projects that conserve natural capital.

• EU airline carbon tax could spark trade war with China and the US

  Elodie Jacquet

  News agencies were abuzz this morning with the news that the EU has approved of a carbon tax on all airlines flying in European air-space.

• Dispatches from down under: the little carbon tax that could?

  Amy Huva

  Whenever people talk about the potential effects of climate change and the possibilities for adaptation and mitigation, I always want to know what the deadline is. How long have we got?

• Recommendations to weaken the B.C. carbon tax would be a step backwards

  Matt Horne

  Working on climate change issues can be challenging, especially when you compare what climate scientists say needs to be done with what politicians are (or are not) doing.

• Premier Clark reconfirms commitment to BC’s carbon pricing policies

  Carbon Talks

  Carbon Talks worked with a number of businesses and environmental leaders to encourage the B.C. government to stay the course on carbon pricing, cap and trade and leadership in the Western Climate Initiative.

• Stay the course: BC’s leadership in the Western Climate Initiative

  Carbon Talks

  Today over 150 business, academic and NGO leaders sent a letter to Premier Christy Clark supporting the provincial government’s leadership role in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

• The Future of BC’s Carbon Tax

  Kayla Van Egdom

  On March 17, Carbon Talks hosted its third brown bag dialogue of the year. In the past, greenhouse gas emissions were essentially ‘free’ for the individuals and corporations emitting them, and only the environment paid the full price. During this dialogue, Nancy Olewiler asked “what do people do when they can get something for free? They take as much of it as they can!” The potential solution is BC’s carbon tax.

Feature Posts

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