Sarkozy details green France plan

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Source: BBC

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for taxes to target polluters and said French use of pesticides should be halved.<snip>

"We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less," Mr Sarkozy said.

He called on the European Union to study in the next six months "the possibility of taxing imports from countries that do not respect the Kyoto Protocol" - the international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. <snip>

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7062577.stm

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IMO taxing polluters in other countries is fair... For example, company moves manufacturing out of USA to avoid costly pollution controls, but still want to market goods here. Not sure how it would work.