the organizers have invited christoph schmidt to take part in a panel about carbon tax the chairman of the german council of economic experts he advises the german government on carbon pricing. and it's a misconception you have just read that it was $22.00 degrees celsius in greenland yesterday and within just 24 hours 12000000 tonnes of ice melted we want to know what we can do to stop this happening to prevent temperatures from continuing to rise. and a carbon tax is one proposal that comes up again and again. as you said people are miserly and that's why pricing works you could put it like this there's some things free it's not worth anything that was fair is used as a free dumping ground for carbon emissions there's no global cost applied to this and that's why it's overused. believes that carbon pricing would make the german government stick to its climate targets. but with the general public accept it. friday's for future is calling on the government to introduce a 180 year old tax on each metric ton of c o 2 in europe per capita c o 2 emissions are $8.00 tonnes a year so everyon