carbon tax

English

Noun

carbon tax (plural carbon taxes)

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.
   • 1995 November 1, S. Fred Singer, “Ozone Politics with a Nobel Imprimatur”, in Washington Times:

     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.

Translations

tax levied on the use of fossil fuels

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二氧化碳稅／二氧化碳税 (èryǎnghuàtànshuì), 碳稅／碳税 (tànshuì)

• Finnish: hiilidioksidivero, hiilivero (fi)
• French: taxe carbone (fr) f
• German: CO₂-Steuer (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cáin charbóin f
• Japanese: 炭素税 (たんそぜい, tansozei)
• Korean: 탄소세 (tansose)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: impuesto sobre el carbono m
• Swedish: koldioxidskatt (sv) c
• Vietnamese: thuế cacbon, thuế carbon