It is, for example in Switzerland, but it's a bad joke in many ways, the most important for me is:
If you have make a carbon emission high product, you rather change the production country (to a less controlled country, where you even can trow your waste water into a river) then to research the next 20 years on new technology.
And the income from the tax goes to insurance company's and Rent rather then to green projects..it's just another tax without any meaning:
Reading the linked document, why do you think it goes to insurance and rent?
AFAICT, 1/3 is used for renovations and renewables. 2/3 is redistributed to residents and companies. Residents get their share via health insurance companies, though that shouldn't make a difference.
"in proportion to the settled AHV payroll of their employees"
I'm not sure how you equate AHV with rent, as it seems to be a social security / retirement system, and furthermore I'm under the impression that it's only used for the payroll data, with the money going to employers.
As for making huge amounts of money while holding money (around 87CHF * 8M for <1 year?) - is it really that huge and aren't they already holding orders of magnitude more money?
If you have make a carbon emission high product, you rather change the production country (to a less controlled country, where you even can trow your waste water into a river) then to research the next 20 years on new technology.
And the income from the tax goes to insurance company's and Rent rather then to green projects..it's just another tax without any meaning:
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/climate/info-s...