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carbon tax en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A tax levied on the carbon contents used by the burning fossil fuels, so as to discourage the production of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
   • Swedish politicians push for imposition of a punitive carbon tax to turn back a global climate warming that has not even been detected, even as a major political party vows to close down Sweden's nuclear power plants. 1995 November 1, S. Fred Singer, “Ozone Politics with a Nobel Imprimatur”, in Washington Times:

Forms

Coordinates

sin tax

Hypernyms

tax · levy

Relateds

petrocarbon · carbon cost · carbon market · carbon emissions trading · cap and trade · carbon footprint

Translations (17)

sk uhlíková daň (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · fi hiilidioksidivero (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · fr taxe carbone (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · sl davek na ogljik (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · ko 탄소세 (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · ja 炭素税 (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · cmn 二氧化碳稅 /二氧化碳税 (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · ru углеро́дный нало́г (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · es impuesto sobre el carbono (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · cmn 碳稅 /碳税 (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · sv koldioxidskatt (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · cs uhlíková daň (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · vi thuế carbon (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · ga cáin charbóin (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · fi hiilivero (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · vi thuế cacbon (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels) · de CO₂-Steuer (tax levied on the use of fossil fuels)