Verdens største multilaterale bistandsyder klar til at gå ud med forslag om afgift på flybenzin og bunkerolie til skibe – kan indbringe enorme beløb
In an interview Monday, World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Andrew Steer said, that “The World Bank will suggest a global levy (afgift) on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance”.
The Bank estimates the extra cost to help the developing world prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas at 100 billion US dollar (ca. 500 milliarder DKR) annually. Various sources put the extra cost of cutting carbon emissions (udledningen af CO2) at 200 billion dollar or more annually.
Steer said he was disappointed by the pace of a UN climate process which launched talks in 2007 to find a Kyoto successor: – I have got to say the situation is very urgent and sometimes that sense of urgency is not evident in the negotiations.
– Durban (COP 17) could make important progress in a number of areas but an overall deal is not really on the cards right now, he said on the sidelines of a new round of climate talks from June 6-17 in Bonn, Germany.
– In the meantime let us get on with delivering what is committed, he stressed, referring to various voluntary emissions targets and measures including a target agreed two years ago for the world to raise 100 billion dollar in climate aid annually by 2020.
The EU plans a levy on the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe from January 2012, regardless of airline, a measure the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday called illegal.
In addition to a levy on transport fuels, the World Bank is investigating raising funds from the sale of emissions permits to countries and companies, as already happens under the EU carbon market, and soft loans from development banks to stimulate private sector cash, said Steer.
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