The 90 “carbon majors” responsible for 63% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions should be required to pay a levy to help vulnerable people and countries deal with climate impacts, the non-government Climate Justice told United Nations climate talks in Bonn last month. “Our proposal is for an international agreement at the government level. There are precedents and examples of this happening in other fields,” Climate Justice’s Julie-Anne Richards told DW. “Take the oil spill regime, for example. Or the scheme to deal with nuclear accidents. We need to…ensure that governments, who already monitor how much coal or gas is extracted so they can charge royalties to these companies, apply an additional levy.”
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