Matt Horne of the Pembina Institute (Letters to the Editor, April 14, 2010) suggests that “careful design” will address the many real issues associated with the carbon tax about which Harvey Enchin deftly wrote a week earlier on the Issues and Ideas page of The Vancouver Sun. Horne says, “Sweden provides an example of how governments can make carbon taxes work.”

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Iggesund Paperboard, the Swedish manufacturer of the famous Invercote – a bleached high quality board designed to pack consumer goods requiring high graphic performances – recently announced being close to stop emissions of fossil carbon dioxide at its Iggesunds Bruk location.

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Sweden is the first European country that will adopt compulsory indication on labels of CO2 contained in foods (the so-called

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Supermarket shoppers are more educated than ever before on what they are putting in their carts. Sweden has taken it one step further by adding food labels that show the amount of CO2 emissions connected to the production and distribution of a product. Each label plainly states “Climate declared

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