| 单词 | carbon tax |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarbon tax carbon tax n. a tax intended to discourage the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, esp. one levied on the burning of fossil fuels. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on other commodities boscage1483 maletent1543 stackage1587 powder tax1775 newspaper stamp duty1815 newspaper stamp1826 timber due1883 carbon tax1979 1979 W. D. Nordhaus Efficient Use Energy Resources viii. 137 In the real world, the policy can take the form either of taxing carbon emissions or of physical controls... In practice, the use of taxes is much simpler... I therefore will concentrate on ‘carbon taxes’ as a way of implementing the global policy on a decentralized, individual level. 1990 New Age Dec. 14/1 70 percent of US citizens now support a carbon tax, which would penalize all energy sources that produce the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. 2004 Land Econ. 80 576/1 Even a relatively broad based environmental tax such as a carbon tax is much narrower than is the income tax. < as lemmas |
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