{"id":760259,"date":"2023-07-13T02:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760259"},"modified":"2023-07-13T02:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T06:59:44","slug":"carbon-taxes-that-focus-on-luxury-consumption-are-fairer-than-those-that-tax-all-emissions-equally-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760259","title":{"rendered":"Carbon taxes that focus on luxury consumption are fairer than those that tax all emissions equally: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all carbon emissions are made for the same reason\u2014they range from more essential purposes like heating a home to nonessential &#8220;luxury&#8221; activities like leisure travel. However, proposals for the implementations of carbon taxes tend to apply to all emissions at an equal rate. This can give rise to and exacerbate inequalities. A new analysis published on July 11 in the journal One Earth suggests taxing luxury carbon emissions at a higher rate instead; if all 88 countries analyzed in this study adopted the luxury-focused policy, this would achieve 75% of the emissions reduction needed to reach the Paris Agreement&#8217;s goal of limiting climate change to well below 2\u00b0C by 2050.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-07-carbon-taxes-focus-luxury-consumption.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carbon taxes that focus on luxury consumption are fairer than those that tax all emissions equally: Study<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all carbon emissions are made for the same reason\u2014they range from more essential purposes like heating a home to nonessential &#8220;luxury&#8221; activities like leisure travel. However, proposals for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}