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Sweden has had a carbon tax since 1991 and has almost halved co2 emissions since. Sources: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/sweden https://ourworldindat
by K0nserv 3y ago
Sweden has had a carbon tax since 1991 and has almost halved co2 emissions since.
Sources:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/sweden https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/sweden
https://government.se/government-policy/swedens-carbon-tax/swedens-carbon-tax/ https://government.se/government-policy/swedens-carbon-tax/s...
- jjjjj55555 3y agoThe US has dropped them 25% over the same time period, so Sweden has done 25 percentage points better. That's less than a 1% compounded drop for those 35 years, and that's assuming that all of the delta was attributable to carbon taxes. That's not a very convincing case.