文档介绍：碳减排:值得花大力气作者: 时间: 2010 年 06月 24来源: Eco 中文论坛已阅读 151 次 THIS newspaper has long advocated a carbon tax as the best way to deal with a warming climate. This month we asked Cambridge Econometrics, an economic-modelling firm, to assess the impact ofa carbon tax on the economy. To keep things simple and allow for gradual adjustment, we proposed that it should raise revenues equal to 1% of GDP by 2020, and that other policies with similar objectives (fuel duty, subsidies for renewable energy, Britain ’s membership of the European emissions-trading scheme — the ETS — and so forth) would be abolished or cut back. 更多信息请访问: / 本刊长期以来一直主张征收碳排放税是应对气候变暖的最佳方式。本月我们邀请经济建模公司剑桥计量( Cambridge Econometrics )估算碳排放征税对经济可能产生的冲击。简单来讲且允许循序渐进做些调整, 我们预计到 2020 年碳排放征税的创收应相当于 GDP 的 1% , 而且其他着眼相似目标的政策( 燃油税、可再生能源补贴、英国在欧洲排放交易计划<emissions-trading scheme> 简称 ETS ) 中的会员身份等等) 将被废除或者减少。 The results are surprising. A frequent worry about carbon taxes is that they will hurt business and the economy. But in our simulation Britain ’s economic performance would improve. Despite raising an extra ￡ 11 billion revenue by 2015 and ￡ 18 billion by 2020, our carbon tax (￡ 31 a tonne in 2015) would help economic performance, not hamper it. Output would be % higher by 2020 than under the current arrangements. 收效将非常惊人。对碳排放征税人们常常担忧的是这将使商业和经济受到创伤。但在我们的模拟中, 英国经济成就会有所改观。尽管到 2015 年纯财政收入将增加 110 亿英镑, 2020 年将增加 180 亿英镑, 我们的碳排放税( 2015 年每