Montreal Gazette: A top UN panel yesterday called for increased taxes on carbon emissions and air and sea transport to raise $100-billion a year for poor nations to combat climate change. The group, led by the prime ministers of Norway and Ethiopia, also proposed a tax on international financial transactions for a UN fund aiming to be ready by 2020. The panel -which also included finance ministers and financier George Soros -was set up at last year’s acrimonious Copenhagen climate summit and its proposals will…