{"id":86890,"date":"2019-07-23T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8380"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T11:14:49","slug":"south-africas-carbon-tax-aim-to-ensure-zero-waste-to-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/south-africas-carbon-tax-aim-to-ensure-zero-waste-to-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s carbon tax: Aim to ensure zero waste to landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>South\nAfrica has recently introduced a carbon tax. The carbon tax aims to reduce 34%\ncarbon emissions by 2020 and 42% emissions by 2025.<\/li><li>The\ncarbon tax also seeks to ensure zero waste to landfill and boost investments\nfor low carbon alternatives.<\/li><li>A\ncarbon tax is a type of carbon pricing. A carbon tax directly sets a price on\ncarbon by defining a tax rate on greenhouse gas emissions or on the carbon\ncontent of fossil fuels.<\/li><li>Another\nform of carbon pricing is the emissions trading systems (ETS), also referred to\nas the cap-and-trade system. ETS caps the total level of greenhouse gas\nemissions and allows those industries with low emissions to sell their extra\nallowances to larger emitters.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recently introduced a carbon tax. The carbon tax aims to reduce 34% carbon emissions by 2020 and 42% emissions by 2025. The carbon tax also seeks to ensure zero waste to landfill and boost investments for low carbon alternatives. A carbon tax is a type of carbon pricing. A carbon tax directly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/south-africas-carbon-tax-aim-to-ensure-zero-waste-to-landfill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">South Africa\u2019s carbon tax: Aim to ensure zero waste to landfill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4570],"class_list":["post-86890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-south-africas-carbon-tax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704715643},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}