COP25 – Madrid. After rioting and civil unrest in Chile, the intended location of COP-25, Madrid, Spain agreed to take on the challenge of hosting some 20,000 climate change bureaucrats for the 25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). #GretaThunberg is taking a yacht there, crossing the Atlantic in stormy wintertime. The climate confab takes place December 2-13, 2019. The ‘climateers’ plan to implement the Paris Agreement “rule book” and there’s a push for a global carbon tax law. We take a look at what Canadians are already paying in carbon tax equivalents on federal and provincial fuel taxes – and what the rest of the world pays in carbon taxes. What would a carbon tax law mean for Canada and other democracies. Please read our rebuttal to the UN Climate Panel’s recent IPCC SR15 report:
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Interesting – Madrid, completely unprepared can afford to host COP25:
Youth unemployment Spain:
“In 2014, 57.9% of young people in Spain were unemployed. … In 2012, Spain had the highest rate of long-term youth unemployment (more than 40%) of the countries in the euro zone. At the end of 2016, the rate of unemployment among young people was 42.91%, 3.3% lower than the previous year (46.2%).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
Youth unemployment in Spain – Wikipedia”
https://www.google.com/search?q=youth+unemployment+spain&oq=youth+unemployment+&aqs=chrome.
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“Youth Unemployment Rate in Greece is expected to be 33.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. … In the long-term, the Greece Youth Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 30.50 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.”
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-huawei&sxsrf=ACYBGNTZXugcDJT081AoxrS_gYoJW3qgRw%3A1575774259074&ei=M2jsXYWVBKyrmwXtl4DAAg&q=youth+unemployment+Greece&oq=youth+unemployment+Greece&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
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Youth unemployment France:
https://www.google.com/search?q=youth+unemployment+france&oq=youth+unemployment+france+&aqs=chrome.
It said that nearly one in four young people in France is unemployed. This figure is referring to the unemployment rate for French youth (ages 15–24), which the OECD reports as 24.6 percent. … As a result, the employment rate for French youth is 28.3 percent, compared to 50.1 percent for the United States. Oct 29, 2017
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The Myth of High Youth Unemployment in France | Beat the Press | CEPR
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To take with a gran of salt:
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/the-myth-of-high-youth-unemployment-in-france
OTOH – There’s to uphold a tradition:
https://www.google.com/search?q=madrid+culture+and+customs&oq=Madrid+culture+and+&aqs=chrome.