China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax

Whilst it is undoubtably true that climate changes over time and the evidence does indeed show significant temperature shift over time the pace of change is the critical element.
There is plenty of evidence, often and too easily dismissed by people with opinion but no expertise, that shows human activity over the last few centuries is a major contributor to the rapid changes we are undoubtably experiencing in climate today.
Many of the actions proposed to alleviate this pace of climate change are and would be benefical to the greater human society whether or not they do indeed make a difference to the pace of climate change.

As for the application of tax revenue to the relevant area of need, well if one will insist on having politicans running ones country then one should not be surprised or disappointed when they fill their pock…, sorry steer funds towards their pet projects.
Benevolent dictatorship is the only way ;-).

I disagree with China. Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely not in favour of the carbon tax, but that does not mean we should not pay it. Who are we (or in this case the Chinese) to decide which tax we support and which we do not? I find the taxes for car ownership to be insanely high, but that does not mean I don´t have to pay them.

They are welcome to lobby to get the damn tax repealed, or to use whatever loophole the law offers. Besides that, they´ll just have to play by the rules.

I agree with the Chinese and Bemused.

The whole stop/minimise the climate control regime, practiced by western countries, and some others, is IMO meaningless. Without the likes of the US, China, and the ’emerging countries’ onboard, its a waste of time and money, and it penalises financially those states that are genuinely trying to implement suitable policies. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for any measures that will not only help to ‘clean up’ the environment, and thereby enable us to leave a decent world for the unborn generations to inherit. But without the majority of the worlds countries on board, it all means diddly squat.

Spot on Sandy, spot on.

Personally, I support China’s stance.

This tax is not about curbing emissions, it’s about the EU trying to get money to pull themselves out of the financial hole we are in.

We, Britain, have had an environmental tax on air travel for a few years now, the environment has not benefited, but the government coffers have. And it’s only aviation that has this tax. Buses, trains and shipping do not have an emissions tax on their ticket prices even though combined they contribute so much more in emissions.

No amount of Tax will stop climate shift, it is a geological phenomenon that happens once every so often on Earth (Plenty of evidence in the bark of trees, the soil, etc). Nothing we do will stop it, though we are not helping with our emissions. But we will not stop it, even if we stopped all green house emissions tomorrow.
Taxes are just profiteering measures by governments, using scaremongering tactics to justify them.

Once again, aviation is the easy target for governments who want to look like they are helping the environment.