How Carbon Pricing Can Save the World | Johan Eyckmans | TEDxKULeuvenBrussels

[bmaalimarber]

Bravo Dear Pr. JOHAN EYCkMANS ! for your very good and instructive presentation about the subject
We should apply the principle:
"polluter should pay the right price" and this principle should apply to both producer as well as to consumers

[montsemunoz]

I think he summarized pretty well what the carbon tax is and how it works. Really interesting talk.

[zippydodahquirk]

Yeah right. This will be used to crush small businesses at the behest of Amazon and Walmart

[kawamach]

Businesses and CEOs are pleading for carbon pricing -offsets to pay to maintain their footprint, not to change it or decrease it; in other words, business as usual, not a real game changer.

[VikasKumar-zocy]

Do you seriously think developing and underdeveloped nations can afford carbon pricing? When it comes to international economy and trade, its all about money and profits.

[Greggee-rk]

The free market has consistently and utterly failed to address their activities contributing to climate change. There needs to be intervention to prevent disaster, and political institutions must implement carbon tax as a means of intervention.

[aarononeal]

If you are looking for a way to help the environment and fight climate change you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees.

[damiencrossley]

Canadian here well this aged terribly!

[powelllucas]

So, we're gonna' have a carbon tax and punish all those big emitters. And, of course, these big emitters will swallow the increase without a whimper. Anyone who believes this should be committed. The carbon tax, as well as all subsequent increases (c'mon you really didn't think these large corporations were that altruistic?), will passed on to the ultimate consumer. Meanwhile, the government, at all levels, will soon realize they have a new cash cow to milk. Perhaps, as a senior citizen who gets his carbon tax rebated, I should be out there campaigning for the tax to be tripled just to boost my income. It's just that I can't stand to see any government (I distrust all of them with every fibre of my being) conning the public.

[sebstott]

Great talk. Shame the comments section is a dumpster fire. 😭

[sanudas]

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[SentenceIsNot]

Remember medieval taxes on chimneys, windows, air, roofs. Funny? Nope. Here we are again. 😅😅😅😅

[glengordon]

Remember all of Canada only 2% max. Fix Whats that nothing!!!

[xstl]

sounds like a new currency and power grab for the Political Class. Like he says ...."so?" if the consumers are put under more strain.

[primemover]

Who do you bill for forest fire emissions? and volcano gases? Will you pay for the pollution from bombs and war? And who is going to pay your "talking pollution" - for your converting oxygen into carbon pollution and noise?

[Joao_]

Funny how there are 35 comments yet I have access to only 23...🎉

[davidsmarrt]

Also we aren’t holding China or India to this Carbon tax…? why am I gonna live here in Canada and pay it when our global emissions are 2.6% of the worlds carbon output? what a joke.

[georgetanasa]

How shilling for Carbon Pricing Can increase Johan Eyckmans bank account. carbon monoxide is too good for these clowns.

[slappinpumpkins]

Yes - if you look at countries that have implemented carbon tax you also notice that they have healthier environments - less polluted air. America has preferred cap and trade - not as effective in my opinion. Of course having great policy writers is important

[sorenmollerchr]

Misuse of the concept "marketfailure". He obviously assumes that experts make better decisions than the markets. Unless the "experts" are continuously hiding information from the market, there is no market failure here. Only a market where the majority of players disagree with him politically.