{"id":96,"date":"2013-02-21T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/carbon-tax-soon-in-china.html"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:03:59","slug":"carbon-tax-soon-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/carbon-tax-soon-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Carbon tax soon in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37039fbb970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37039fbb970b-pi.png\" width=\"112\" height=\"75\"    \/><\/a>\nIf China can tax CO2, so can the U.S.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHou Qiang wrote for Xinhua 19 February 2013,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/china\/2013-02\/19\/c_132178898.htm\">\nChina to introduce carbon tax: official<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nChina will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies\n<a href=\"http:\/\/english.mofcom.gov.cn\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017c37039fce970b\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017c37039fce970b-pi.png\"    \/><\/a>\ndesigned to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon\ndioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry\nof Finance (MOF).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe government will collect the environmental protection tax instead\nof pollutant discharge fees, as well as levy a tax on carbon dioxide\nemissions, Jia Chen, head of the ministry&#8217;s tax policy division,\nwrote in an article published on the MOF&#8217;s website.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If China can tax CO2, so can the U.S. Hou Qiang wrote for Xinhua 19 February 2013, China to introduce carbon tax: official China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry of Finance [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,141,14,20,32],"tags":[554,398,8719,8745,8704,8702,8710,12,8715,60,555],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-co2","category-economy","category-law","category-pollution","tag-carbon-tax","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-economy","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-pollution","tag-tax","tag-xinhua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}