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as Environment Policy

Effectiveness of Carbon Tax as Environment Policy

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because unrestrained rising of global temperature would cause melting of glaciers and rise of sea level that would submerge land masses, change weather patterns with frequent incidence of hurricanes and floods and droughts. As an effective response to the challenge, global leaders have agreed to cut back emission of Green House Gases (GTG) to contain the global rise in temperature below 2 degree Celsius (Symon, 2013). Carbon dioxide, a major constituent of GTG, is released to the atmosphere on combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and ...

1.0 Tectonic Setting of South China Hong Kong, which is located near the southeastern margin of the Eurasian Continental Plate (ECP), called the Cathaysia Block, in Southeast China, rests on a stable intraplate region of the ECP some 700 km from its nearest plate boundary, an area that underlies Taiwan and trends southward to the Philippines and northeastward to Japan (Pappin, Koo, Free, & Tsang, 2008). Although stable, this continental intraplate region has been associated with earthquakes in the past as it straddles the northeast-trending Lianhuashan Fault Zone. There are two major fault zones, which trends in the regional northeast ...

Question 1

Price is the amount that a producer charges his or her consumers for a product or a service. There are various ways of determining price which may result in different prices for the same product. The pricing suggestion of the sales officer, the finance officer and the marketing officer will result in the following prices;

Pricing suggestion of the sales officer

According to the sales officer, the selling price of Amaizer should be 2,900 per tonne to make it make competitive as shown by the calculations below.

The sales officer recommended that the snack, Amaizer, should be sold at 100 below the price of potato crisps.

Price of potato crisps per tonne is 3,000 Therefore, the price of Amaizer will be; 3,000- 100 = ...