{"id":2772,"date":"2019-05-28T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"south-africas-carbon-tax-set-to-go-into-effect-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/28\/south-africas-carbon-tax-set-to-go-into-effect-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Carbon Tax Set To Go Into Effect Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Jenny Gathright<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A carbon tax in South Africa will go into effect on June 1. President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the measure into law on Sunday, making South Africa one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/programs\/pricing-carbon\">about 40 countries worldwide<\/a>\u00a0to adopt a carbon-pricing program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proponents of\nthe carbon tax say the true cost of carbon emissions, a key contributor to\nclimate change, is not reflected in the price of fossil fuels.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=630266145\">Many economists<\/a>&nbsp;have argued that taxing\ncarbon would result in a shift toward cleaner sources of energy\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/26\/727154492\/south-africas-carbon-tax-set-to-go-into-effect-next-week\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jenny Gathright A carbon tax in South Africa will go into effect on June 1. President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the measure into law on Sunday, making South Africa one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}