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Over simplification sorry
As stated a number of countries do have policies in place but when you consider that
40% of the worlds manufacturing is done in China and America and neither are signatories to the Kyoto agreement which by the way expires in 2012 nor are the signatories obliged to abide by the rules set down in the agreement
also of the 182 signatories to the agreement few are signifciant manufacturing countries on the world scale
now don't get me wrong I'm all for saving the planet but imposing another tax, increasing power costs by 30% etc does not make the situation better but places undue burden on already struggling families
I'm for real policies that are constructive not reactive
ie: stricter pollution controls, more efficient vehicles, less logging for useless wood chips, not smaller block sizes where no trees are grown, affordable rainwater tanks and solar systems in/on every house (and rebates are the same rate charged by utilities), more efficient buidling designs requiring less heating/cooling, not further surburban expansion so people have to travel further to work etc
Taxes only seem to make the rich richer and the poor poorer IMO
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