{"id":3649,"date":"2023-05-29T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2023-05-29T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:58:02","slug":"in-africas-fight-against-climate-change-ataf-issues-policy-guidelines-for-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/29\/in-africas-fight-against-climate-change-ataf-issues-policy-guidelines-for-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"In Africa&#039;s fight against climate change, ATAF issues policy guidelines for a carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa&#039;s 54 countries contribute less than four percent of global emissions, yet are the hardest hit by climate change. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the continent&#039;s efforts to adequately respond to the challenges of climate change. So this is another shot as the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) issues guidelines on how carbon taxes can be implemented to combat climate change in Africa. In a press release copied to Ghana Business News, ATAF says the preferential carbon tax is easy to administer and can have an impact on both formal and informal economies, a point that is particularly relevant to Africa, where most countries are either middle or low income countries. . He notes that a brief overview of carbon tax policy will assist African governments in implementing carbon tax policy with a holistic approach. He explains that the key elements of a carbon tax proposal that can meet the dual objective of raising revenue while having a positive impact on the environment are briefly explored.\u00a0<span>According to ATAF, the brief begins with a descriptive overview of what carbon taxes are and how they can be administered at a national level if they are used at a higher or lower level. She added that it then provides an extensive discussion on the parameters of the implementation of tax rates, the definition of the tax base and the use of revenue with respect to the African context.\u00a0<\/span><span>ATAF Manager: Country Programs &amp; Rapid Response, Sameera Khan, commented: &quot;Carbon taxes are among the most effective policies for pricing carbon, especially when used at higher level &#039;choke points&#039;.&quot; <em>(Ghana Business News)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&quot;by clicking on the title of the article, you will be redirected to the entire article&quot;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s 54 countries contribute less than four percent of global emissions, yet they are among the most affected by climate change. It is therefore important to pay attention to the continent\u2019s efforts to adequately respond to the challenges of climate change. This is another shot in the arm as the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) issues guidelines on how carbon taxes can be implemented to combat [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-znizovanie_co2_cdr_ccs_ccu_dac"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}