German Government Advisor Proposes Personal CO2 Budget For Everyone On Planet
The top climate science advisor to the German government has proposed that everyone on the planet should have a personal CO2 budget and be forced to pay a tax if they exceed it, adding that westerners have already exceeded their allocations and should pay climate reparations to poorer countries.
All shopping and petrol station receipts in Britain could in future include the amount of VAT or fuel duty that goes directly to Brussels as an “EU tax”, according to Jose Manuel Barroso.
Russia is extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia, making it the biggest producer of “black gold” in the world, figures show.
Leading central bank governors said on Sunday they had agreed on a package of measures to strengthen on a “global” scale the supervision of the banking industry.
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