Are the Danish Government right to put a carbon tax on farmers?

Last week the Danish Government announced its plans for an agricultural carbon tax, but one Danish farm group claims it is 'pure bureaucracy'

Alex Black
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Are the Danish Government right to put a carbon tax on farmers?

Danish farmers will have to pay 120 Danish krone per tonne (£13.62/t) of emitted CO2 equivalent (CO2e) from 2035, after its Government agreed to put the world's first carbon tax on farmers. On June...

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