Gas gluttons face super carbon taxes under SA’s new draft for a climate change law

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Gas gluttons face super carbon taxes under SA’s new draft for a climate change law

Carbon budgets will come with tax teeth in the 2021 version of the Climate Change Bill – as opposed to a 2018 plan that would have seen emitters apologise and pay fines with hard limits.

Source: Business Insider South Africa

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