The proposed carbon tax policy released by National Treasury in May 2013 lays out the details of a proposed Carbon Tax for South Africa that is to be implemented on 1 January 2015. For the purposes of conceptualising the programme for a roundtable of the topic at hand, National Treasury, various private companies, the labour movement and civil society were invited to attend this meeting, together with briefing documents from National Treasury which served as a basis in preparation for this round of discussions.