Tuesday, October 27, 7:00 pm, SCIENCE CABARET, Coltivare
WHAT IF NEW YORK PASSED A CARBON TAX? Community Leaders Role Play the Future
MC: Mark Sarvary
Host: Gay Nicholson, Sustainable Tompkins and the Seal the Cracks campaign
Premise: NYS has passed a carbon tax after much debate. It is one of the most aggressive and visionary in North America. Each county will receive from the State a share of the collected tax after 60% of the tax is redistributed to low and moderate-income households to compensate them for higher fossil carbon energy prices.
In a stunning political compromise, the Cuomo administration agreed to forego collecting any of the carbon tax for use at the state level. All of the 40% remaining refunds is to go to the counties to be used locally to both meet the State climate goal of 80% emission reductions by 2050 and to pay for any adaptation response needed by local communities. Read the rest of this entry »
