Responding to Climate Change with a Carbon Tax

摘要

On September 23rd, the United Nations met to determine a path forward to a climate treaty next year in Paris. 192 countries met and made some progress, but the goal of actually stabilizing emissions by 2020 and cutting emissions by 50% by 2050 still seems a distant dream. That is what is needed to halt global warming at 2 ℃ and to avoid "dangerous interference" with the climate system. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon seemed well pleased with the meeting. "Today was a great day-a historic day. Never before have so many leaders gathered to commit to action on climate change," Mr. Ban explained that progress was made on a commitment to reduce emissions and for the Green Climate Fund to help nations most affected by climate change. Not everyone was so sanguine.