A few days before the start of the International UN Climate Conference in Katowice, the introduction of a CO2 tax is being discussed.
A few days before the start of the International UN Climate Conference in Katowice, Christoph Schmidt, Head of the Institute of Economics, and Ottmar Edenhofer, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, recommend the introduction of a CO2 tax.
In a joint paper, they call on the German government to launch an initiative for a gradually increasing minimum CO2 price in European electricity trading and at the same time to raise taxes on fossil fuels such as petrol, diesel and heating oil, according to „Der Spiegel“. In return, the electricity tax is to be reduced „to a minimum“.
With the plan the goals of the Paris agreement are to be reached to the fight against the global warming with the most cost-effective instrument to the climatic protection , reads it in its three-sided paper with the title ?key points of a CO2-Preisreform?, about which the mirror reports.
In detail, the plan of the two professors envisages fixing the CO2 price at 20 euros per tonne in 2020. According to the plan, the price will gradually rise to 35 euros in 2030. The tax on petrol is to rise by 4.7 cents per litre in 2020 and the tax on diesel by 5.3 cents per litre.
At the same time, the reduction of the electricity tax would relieve a three-person household of more than 90 euros per year, according to calculations by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, headed by Schmidt, the news magazine reported. „We rely on the ingenuity of the individual rather than on the planned economy“, Schmidt told the „Spiegel“.
In the future, it will have to become significantly more expensive to emit greenhouse gases. At the same time, however, citizens would have to be relieved elsewhere, Schmidt said. Edenhofer called on the federal government to supplement the planned phase-out of lignite with a minimum price for CO2. „Otherwise, it would pay off to ramp up hard coal-fired power plants that have not yet been fully utilized,“ Edenhofer said.
In the medium term, the coal phase-out would only work with a minimum price. Both professors see good chances of implementing such a concept in a network of European countries. „There are currently many countries that advocate a minimum CO2 price,“ said Edenhofer.
His colleague Schmidt referred in this context to a corresponding initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron: „Climate protection is the right topic for Franco-German cooperation“.
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