Campbell Sets Out Environmental Priorities in Norwich
April 27, 2006 2:44 PM
Ming Campbell today visited Norfolk to deliver a keynote speech on tackling Climate Change at the UEA, before visiting Winterton to look at how climate change is impacting on Norfolk now. Coastal erosion and increasing threats of flooding around the Broads are very serious issues that affect livelihoods now.
Ming made it very clear that he did not favour raising the tax burden, but that he did want to see taxation on pollution (Green taxes). He announced that he had written to David Cameron asking him to commit to climate change issues, by clarifying his policies in the following five areas:
1. Green taxes must be used to change behaviour. They have fallen as a proportion of national income between 1999 and today. The proportion should be rising not falling.
2. Green taxes should not fall in real terms from year to year.
3. Substantial increase in the top rate of Vehicle Excise Duty.
4. Reform of the climate change levy into a universal carbon tax - including household emissions as well as business emissions.
5. We should stop subsidising pollution from air travel - Air Passenger Duty should be restructured as a tax on aircraft emissions not passengers.
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