SocraticGadfly: Sweden calls for EU carbon tax

June 09, 2009

Sweden calls for EU carbon tax

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt wants Eurozone carbon taxes. And, with Sweden taking the European Union’s rotating presidency for six months, starting in July, Reinfeldt may be in a position to push that. (Sweden started carbon taxes way back in 1991. And, with Saab, Volvo and steel-making, it had heavy industry to deal with.)

So, in the ramp-up to the Copenhagen round of climate-change negotiations, we have something new in the mix.

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