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Africa Climate Summit Hears Calls for Carbon Tax on World’s Richest Nations
Economic success must have a price and a global tax on carbon emissions can help redress Africa’s chronically low Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rates, Kenya’s President William Ruto declared Tuesday as the first Africa Climate Summit began.He pointed to “climate change” driven by successful, dynamic economies in Europe, North America and Asia, as a drain on Africa’s economic progress and it’s time to have a global conversation about a carbon tax on the world’s richest nations.
“Those who produce the garbage refuse to pay their bills,” Ruto said, according to AP, echoing others who have also called for carbon tax impositions.
The U.S. government’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, agreed and acknowledged the “acute, unfair debt” carried by Africa nations must be addressed.
He also said 17 of the world’s 20 countries most impacted by climate change are in Africa — while the world’s 20 richest nations, including his own, produce 80 percent of the world’s carbon emissions that are driving climate change
The United States — which is currently ruled by the country’s leftist Democrat party — is also a target for the new green global tax scheme, though it remains unclear how effective right-wing Republican resistance to joining such an organisation would be in preventing such an eventuality from occurring.
Africa Climate Summit Hears Calls for Global Carbon Tax
A global carbon tax can help redress Africa's low Gross Domestic Product rates, Kenya’s President William Ruto declared as the first Africa Climate Summit began.
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