Feb 20 2012
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Feb 20 2012
The idea behind a carbon tax is that all of a sudden, high-carbon sources of energy start to look less attractive, right? Well, that’s apparently not the case in Australia. Even a Carbon tax on the horizon, investment in coal, the highest-carbon fuel source has increased 62 percent.
See the article here
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Why do you think this is? Is it the case, as some have suggested, that government action on CO2 emissions is destined to fall far short of being meaningful? Alternatively, if countries’ domestic policies prevent them from burning coal for electricity, but maintain the attractiveness of mining coal for export, are the countries successfully meeting the objective of lowering carbon emissions?
