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on the building. Ultimately, over time, this would reduce overall electricity costs. Installing solar panels on schools, with meters to read the impact, also provides teachable moments in schools as youth start to understand the availability, impact, and cost/savings viability of these transitions. It is also important that industries are environmentally friendly. A carbon tax - that could be opt-ed out of, should certain carbon targets be met over the course of a fiscal year, would provide an incentive for companies to become more eco-friendly. We can see that today the majority of the countries do not have a carbon tax. We encourage the United Nations to ensure the implementation of this policy in countries across the globe, with an end goal of worldwide carbon tax. Since carbon emissions are a global problem, the implementation should also be global. Furthermore, the carbon tax must be high enough that it is an influential factor in the decision-making of companies. The tax should be directly proportional to the amount of greenhouse gases released. The aim of the tax would be to encourage corporations to reduce their emissions and become more energy efficient. The carbon tax can be used to fund afforestation and other climate crisis factor In our global climate survey, we asked the youth to rank the top three ways from which. As seen from the column chart above, a large majority of the youth call for regulations and enforcement of the industry as their first priority. A common worry of switching to renewable resources is that many people in the fossil fuel industry would become unemployed. This prevents many countries from transitioning, especially when unemployment may already be an issue. In reality, however, this could become an advantage. By investing time and money into retraining fossil fuel workers for jobs in renewable energy, and perhaps by using some government funding, we would be able to make the transition into renewable energy as smooth as possible. Renewable energy can create a large amount of jobs, which could be filled by the retrained fossil fuel workers and unemployed. "We can use sustainable amounts of oil until new technologies are developed making it possible to run solely on renewable energy in all climates and conditions." ~ Jocelyne, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Page 12

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