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French carbon tax set at 17 euros per tonne of CO2
Reuters India
Sarkozy is due to make details of the new tax public in a speech scheduled to start at 1030 GMT. The plan for a carbon tax has caused a political furore in ...

France's Sarkozy to detail plan for carbon tax
The Associated Press
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to press ahead with a controversial plan to tax carbon emissions by individuals and businesses, ...

Green, Nats aim to sink carbon tax plan
Weekly Times Now
“The carbon sink tax rort is MIS on steroids and should never have been introduced. “It has nothing to do with honest attempts to reduce our climate impact ...

More in Europe Look to Carbon Tax to Curb Emissions
New York Times
BRUSSELS — Economists have long seen a carbon tax as a good idea because of its simplicity: Polluters pay at a level ...