Why It’s The Perfect Time For
A Carbon Tax In The UK
In
2010, David Cameron
promised that his gov-
ernment was going to
be the greenest government
ever. Yet, since then, the Con-
servatives have pushed back
on numerous environmental
measures, including removing
the subsidies for solar panel in-
stallation and putting a hold on
all onshore wind-farm con-
struction. The UK Government
has committed to reducing UK
greenhouse gas emissions by
80% by 2050, something they
can realistically only achieve if
they deliver a carbon negative
economy; they must remove
carbon from the atmosphere –
though carbon capture tech-
nology is starting to become
much more mainstream than it
was a few years ago so this
might be possible in the future.
The EU target for 2020 is to en-
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