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First, I am not an active Wikimedia contributor, so I am not familiar with the policies here, and look forwarding to learning about them. However, I have been teaching a course on environmental economics at a local community college (Front Range Community College in Colorado) for over ten years, and have read deeply into this topic. So I would like to suggest that some of the information about how a carbon tax is implemented seems flawed: a carbon tax is not based on emissions. Emissions are caused by burning fossil fuels. A cap and trade program is based on emissions; but a carbon tax is not based on the burning of fossil fuels. Ideally, a carbon tax is paid once, at the point that the fossil fuel enters the economy; in other words, by the first wholesaler that sells the fossil fuel. If you read this page on the Citizen Climate Lobby website, this is explained; see this sentence in the section titled "Pricing Carbon 101: What is Carbon Pricing?": "This fee is based on the metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) the fuel would generate, and it would be assessed at the earliest point of sale into the economy...".
I do not profess to be an expert on this topic, but given the serious misconception on this policy tool, and the critical importance it is likely to play in public discussion on the topic, I would hope that Wikipedia can correct this here. I would be glad to contribute more references to support this position, if needed.
Best regards, Rick Casey instructor, environmental economics, Front Range Community College — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickcasey ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
I've removed the further reading section as it's not adding value (outdated anyway).
I've moved the section "Implementation by country" to the end for now as it was much bigger than the other sections. I've also given it a sub-structure by region. However, I wonder if we are better off splitting this off into a spin-off article? It's otherwise rather dominating. My other concern is that a lot of this info is nowadays available (and perhaps more up to date) in the "climate change by country" articles, e.g. climate change in the United States. So is it really useful to have a full listing of countries here (with the content probably being a bit out of date by now). Pinging @ Sadads and @ InformationToKnowledge and @ Chidgk1. EMsmile ( talk) 15:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
As part of the Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication of environment SDGs project, I’m proposing some minor revisions to this article. This would include revisions to the structure, some content suggestions, and the incorporation of a broader set of references. These suggestions are based on comments from Michael Grubb, convening Lead Author for Chapter 1 of the IPCC AR6 WGIII report.
Organizational issues:
Other general comments:
I will be working to incorporate these suggestions into the article. Dtetta ( talk) 21:00, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
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First, I am not an active Wikimedia contributor, so I am not familiar with the policies here, and look forwarding to learning about them. However, I have been teaching a course on environmental economics at a local community college (Front Range Community College in Colorado) for over ten years, and have read deeply into this topic. So I would like to suggest that some of the information about how a carbon tax is implemented seems flawed: a carbon tax is not based on emissions. Emissions are caused by burning fossil fuels. A cap and trade program is based on emissions; but a carbon tax is not based on the burning of fossil fuels. Ideally, a carbon tax is paid once, at the point that the fossil fuel enters the economy; in other words, by the first wholesaler that sells the fossil fuel. If you read this page on the Citizen Climate Lobby website, this is explained; see this sentence in the section titled "Pricing Carbon 101: What is Carbon Pricing?": "This fee is based on the metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) the fuel would generate, and it would be assessed at the earliest point of sale into the economy...".
I do not profess to be an expert on this topic, but given the serious misconception on this policy tool, and the critical importance it is likely to play in public discussion on the topic, I would hope that Wikipedia can correct this here. I would be glad to contribute more references to support this position, if needed.
Best regards, Rick Casey instructor, environmental economics, Front Range Community College — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rickcasey ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
I've removed the further reading section as it's not adding value (outdated anyway).
I've moved the section "Implementation by country" to the end for now as it was much bigger than the other sections. I've also given it a sub-structure by region. However, I wonder if we are better off splitting this off into a spin-off article? It's otherwise rather dominating. My other concern is that a lot of this info is nowadays available (and perhaps more up to date) in the "climate change by country" articles, e.g. climate change in the United States. So is it really useful to have a full listing of countries here (with the content probably being a bit out of date by now). Pinging @ Sadads and @ InformationToKnowledge and @ Chidgk1. EMsmile ( talk) 15:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
As part of the Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication of environment SDGs project, I’m proposing some minor revisions to this article. This would include revisions to the structure, some content suggestions, and the incorporation of a broader set of references. These suggestions are based on comments from Michael Grubb, convening Lead Author for Chapter 1 of the IPCC AR6 WGIII report.
Organizational issues:
Other general comments:
I will be working to incorporate these suggestions into the article. Dtetta ( talk) 21:00, 30 July 2023 (UTC)