South Africa to Consider Taxing Carbon. By Sibongile Khumalo, AFP, August 3, 2008. "South Africa's government has set out an ambitious proposal to deal with climate change in the coming years, including slapping a possible carbon tax on carbon dioxide-spewing industries. Saying the world faced 'a global climate emergency,' the environment ministry unveiled the strategy geared toward reducing greenhouse gases last week... The plan, which includes stringent energy efficiency measures, has been endorsed by the cabinet, though parliament must still approve it. Finance officials are investigating ways of implementing the tax... 'Our emissions per capita are higher than many other developing countries... [in part] due to our coal-based energy system,' professor Harald Winkler from the University of Cape Town climate change department told AFP. 'Our analysis shows that putting a price on carbon has the single largest impact on emissions. By using the price signal, it sends signals to all actors in the economy, and can shift behaviour,' said Winkler."
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