Climate Quote by Al Gore

By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to.…

— Al Gore

I think any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but they come…

— Todd Young

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with…

— Al Gore

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

— Elon Musk

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

“the added expense of carbon capture and storage for all the new coal plants expected to be built in all of the world’s developing…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“No longer would other nations, other economies, be taking business and jobs away from the U.S. economy by enacting their own valuable tax reform…

— Neal Boortz

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

— Pierre Poilievre

“The right solution is a progressive annual tax on capital. This will make it possible to avoid an endless inegalitarian spiral while preserving competition…

— Thomas Piketty

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such…

— Richard Thaler

You've got to of course create jobs, you've got to increase the tax base, but progressive taxation those limited powers that we have, we…

— Humza Yousaf