Efforts to Reduce Global Warming

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This paper examines the approach to reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases taken by both Finland and Spain. The paper describes the domestic measures both countries have implemented in their efforts to help fight global warming, how successful they have been in meeting this objective and how each country would be affected by the imposition of a global environmental tax designed to help control greenhouse gases emissions globally.

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"The leaders of both Spain and Finland have been working hard for years to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. Large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere are responsible for global warming. If global warming continues it will have catastrophic consequences on the world's environment. World leaders have proposed many ideas to solve the problem of global warming, but have had little success. One answer to the problem is to impose a global environmental tax. However, leaders in many European countries feel that the burden on their economy will be too great. In addition, conflicting results from studies aimed at projecting the effect an environmental tax will have on their economy has confused leaders, and made them reticent to commit to a tax."

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