Imposition of a Carbon Tax in China

Air pollution by definition, is the presence in or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. Beijing is a major Chinese city that endures air pollution significantly. A study on the global burden of disease found that outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China each year (Chemical & Engineering News,2017). As China is the world's second largest economy behind the United States, it is most definitely under the influence of globalization. Globalization causes industrialization, a process that will inevitably create pollution.70% of air pollution in China is from the tailpipes of automobiles (Conserve Energy Future, 2017). Thus, the introduction of advanced transportation brought by globalization has adversely affected China's atmosphere.

The issue of carbon emissions is an important one not only from an environmental perspective but also an economic one. While reducing carbon emissions is an important one for the health of human beings as well as that of the environment, the larger question is what type of policy strategy is best for both reducing such emissions which might have an impact on efforts to mitigate the effects of pollution on climate change. While ther are options to consider which does not rely on economics-- technological or output standards achieved by command and control regulations--they are often fraught with political resistance by industry because they do not allow industry to make any choices or play a role in solving the problem of

Last year, china had an environmental crisis due to rapid growth of industrialization. This had become a serious threat to China as they had to use roughly 9% of its gross national income. The air

Collier asserts that the poorest states are in need of rapid economic growth which creates tension between poverty reduction and the perversion of nature. This is most evident in China where their desire to grow economically has come at the price of pollution. While China has grown exponentially economically and have reduced poverty, this growth is not sustainable due to their negligence of the environment. The level of pollution in major cities has hurt the Chinese economy because individuals are refusing to do business there due to health concerns. This effects Chinese businesses and their tourism industry. More times than not, states will choose economic growth, however, in the long run this choice will negatively impact their economy.

Discharging taxes is the most effective way to limit the emission although it is difficult to monitor the volume of emission (Jayanthakumaran 2012, p.369). It is demonstrated (Rabe & Borick 2012) that carbon taxation might belong on a long list of worthy policy ideas that cannot be expected to survive translation on to real policy through political examine. Secondly, from the analysis of case study, carbon taxes system is the most efficient way to undertake the emission reduction. Because, under the cap-and-trade system, it is very difficult for regulators to check whether firms are obeying the systems effectively and regulators need to monitor large number of factories, this would lead to free permits.

The carbon tax just may be the solution to a majority of the problems in the world, but many people are against the tax. One of the opposition’s main arguments is that if the U.S. were to implement a carbon tax, then many companies will leave the U.S., hurting the economy. This is not an unfounded claim, either, as CNBC.com has a list of companies such as Burger King or Budweiser that have left America in order to avoid taxes (Morris). There is a fix, though: implement a global tax. This won’t be easy, as implementing a global tax wouldn’t go down well with many large corporations, as they make up a big percentage of global carbon emissions. Nonetheless, a worldwide tax would be possible if the world’s biggest oil and auto body

The introduction of the carbon tax in Australia is derived from the serious environmental issue of climate change. According to The Economist (2011), Australia's emissions measured on a per capita basis are the largest of any developed

Scholars and policymakers have highlighted several drawbacks associated with the carbon tax in that it is not a long-term revenue source. Because a large enough tax will theoretically change behavior and decrease the use of carbon products long-term, revenue would decrease. Therefore, revenue recycling makes an economy unattractive to investors. Also, at the implementation stage, it is expected to be costly for the local governments and businesses to implement the carbon tax and the reallocation of resources after implementation. The carbon tax would also increase cost of production creating domestic and international

To begin with, the amount of inhabitants in Beijing causes pollution. As the capital of China, most every Chinese person dreams of living in Beijing, for this reason Beijing is full of people, and as they move in the air becomes worse. Beijing population is increasing every day and as people increase car use also increases. With nearly 20 million of people living in Beijing, this amounts to 5 million cars driving around every day. Even though the government tries to limit cars that drive in one day by the plate number of each car, but still these cars create abundant carbon dioxide. To make matters

This article describes the threat coal burning possesses towards China by vastly increasing air pollution, leading to many deaths. Furthermore, the article details both how effective the Chinese government’s response has been towards the increasing dangers of air pollution and the effect of heavy air pollution. The author, Edward Wong, a former TIME news foreign correspondent, has written many unbiased articles related to global crises for NY Times and TIMES News. Published by the somewhat reliable news source New York Times, the credibility of the author compensates for any issues. Covering many important issues around the world such as the Iraq war, the author’s credibility is vastly justified. This article provides detail into the damage

In February 2011, the Australian federal government declared a scheme to implement a Carbon Tax from July 1, 2012. Implementing this scheme has generated a controversial debate between Australians. The term “Carbon tax” refers to an environmental tax forcing polluters to pay per ton of carbon which they release into the atmosphere. This essay will provide the economical, social and political implication of carbon taxes, also with its introduction who will benefit and who would suffer.

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

Firstly, it can effectively decrease the total amount of carbon emission by changing the behavior of numbers of carbon-based industries, especially when the price on emission is high enough. For example, according to the result from the case study for the effectiveness of implementing carbon pricing in Australia, “more reasonable emission reduction can be observed at the carbon price of above $46. In fact, increasing the carbon price to double its 2012 rate would result in about four times improvement in carbon emission”(Behnam,et,al, 2013). Putting it in another way, it is not hard to understand that the industries with imposed carbon tax will automatically switch the conventional way of generating energy from the combustion of fossil fuels to a more environmental friendly way in which taking advantage of cleaner renewable resources like wind, solar can reduce the amount of carbon if the cost of emitting greater greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is higher than the benefit of doing that. In addition, the carbon price will promote the potential development of clean technologies. For example, “a carbon price will lead to growing US demand for green technologies to reduce CO2 emission, which will incentivize greater levels of global R&D into such technologies”(Meltzer, 2014). To demonstrate, it is a noteworthy fact that more and more scientists will develop an increasing number of clean technologies if the fund collected from the carbon tax is financially sufficient enough to support for their researches. In effect, Lawrence & Koshy (2000) found that, “carbon taxes therefore provide a double dividend-internalizing the cost of the environmental harm from CO2 emission and producing green technologies through induced innovation”. Beside that, in the cap and trade system, the exchange of permit for carbon emission is not

China burns more coal than anywhere else in the world. Martin Patience, a writer for BBC News online, gives some information about how coal is causing the air pollution in China. Patience states, “At one coal pit the bulldozers are hard at work. They push huge mounds of coal close to the waiting trucks. The air is filthy, blackened by the coal dust.” Coal is a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions and can be found anywhere in China because it costs inexpensive. The greenhouse gas emissions are caused by electricity and heat that runs from place to place in China, where over 1.3 billion of the people need it for daily use. Brad Plumer, a writer for The Washington Post online, states “China’s coal use grew 9% in 2011, rising to 3.8 billion

The number one priority in regards to China should be their pollution level. Even though they are on the other side of the world, we are greatly affected by their disregard for the environment. The United States is also given a bad reputation when we deal with a country that has no regard for the environment. In order to remain popular in the eyes of the public, we need to exaggerate that we are doing everything we can to convince China to implement better environmental standards. Because according to our top expert