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18 Nov 2011
 
 
Uncertainty surrounds the COP 17 outcomes
Polity Focus
If the leading countries participating in the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) negotiations do not make a firm decision to have a second commitment period, following the first phase...
 
 
15 Sep 2011
 
Businesses urged to get involved in climate negotiating process
CLIMATE CHANGE
South African companies should be aware that business is being given an opportunity to engage in global climate change negotiations not only as an observer, but through stakeholder programmes and...
 
 
04 Jan 2011
 
Carbon tax could earn govt R82,5bn a year
CARBON TAX
The South African government stood to collect some R82,5-billion a year in additional revenue from carbon tax, if a price of R165/t of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) was assumed.
 
 
09 Jun 2010
 
African economies should boost tax collection, cut reliance on aid
TAXATION & AID
African economies could, and had to, boost tax collections and reduce their reliance on aid, Jean-Philippe Stijns, an economist at the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic...
 
 
12 Mar 2010
 
SA seeks to make virtue of necessity with green-industries plan
GREEN ECONOMY
The South African government has given strong signals that the country's energy intensity is no longer sustain-able and has started to outline its low-carbon-economy vision.
 
 
23 Feb 2010
 
 
 
Daily podcast - February 23, 2010
PODCAST
In today's podcast, Treasury to release a discussion document on carbon tax by mid-2010; hope of a Doha deal in 2010 recedes at the WTO; and, ANCYL leader Julius Malema is still listed as company...
 
 
Carbon tax discussion document to be released by mid-year
CLIMATE CHANGE
The National Treasury will release a discussion document on carbon tax by mid-2010, which would investigate measures to implement carbon pricing, spokesperson Thoraya Pandy said on Monday.
 
 
17 Feb 2010
 
New vehicle owners to pay emissions tax from Sept 1
2010 BUDGET
The proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) vehicle emissions tax, which will come into effect on September 1, would now be implemented as a specific tax and not as an ad valorem tax, the National Treasury...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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