Citizen action in the USA
The liberal city of Boulder, Colorado, has become the first US city to impose a carbon levy — a tax on energy usage, designed to encourage use of low-carbon-emitting forms of energy. The proceeds of the tax will fund the city’s climate action plan. See this report in the New York Times. Perhaps the US will adopt Kyoto from the bottom up, the way it disinvested from apartheid South Africa.
“The tax is to pay for the “climate action plan,” efforts to “increase energy efficiency in homes and buildings, switch to renewable energy and reduce vehicle miles traveled,” the city’s environmental affairs manager, Jonathan Koehn, said.
The goal is to reduce the carbon levels to 7 percent less than those in 1990, which amounts to a 24 percent reduction from current levels, Mr. Koehn said.
“The climate action plan serves as the roadmap to meet our reduction goal,” he said. “
Vinayak Barve said:
Hello,
It was a great pleasure that USA citizen has taken the steps in reducing the GHG, and helping the climate. I really appriciate the steps takenby the citizen. Every one from the earth should take such steps and help the climate and not only by getting the carbon points from devloping countries.