13 July 2017 – A group of US Senators introduced the Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Act to extend and more than double tax credits to fossil fuel companies for
13 July 2017 – In the UK, a graduate transport planner has won a £250,000 prize for a plan to improve Britain’s ailing roads with a proposal to scrap fuel
17 July 2017 – The EU and Brazil – two of the world’s biggest producers of agricultural products – submitted a joint proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on support
A major obstacle to the more widespread use of energy taxation is the concern that energy taxes may be regressive, hitting the poor harder than the rich. Evidence is surprisingly
Company cars form a large proportion of the car fleet in many OECD countries and are also influential in determining the composition of the wider vehicle fleet. When employees provided
Proposals to increase environmentally related taxes are often challenged on competitiveness grounds given concerns that certain sectors might decline domestically if a country introduces environmentally related taxes unilaterally. Furthermore, environmental
8 July 2017 – The G20 Leaders’ Communique adopted at the 2017 summit in Hamburg fails to establish a deadline for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies. A statement
13 July 2017 – In Australia a proposed new regulation on vehicle fuel efficiency standards was quickly withdrawn after it was met with heavy criticism. Under the proposed regulation, designed
7 July 2017 – Catherine McKenna (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada) and Feike Sijbesma (CEO, Royal DSM) emphasize the importance of carbon pricing as a tool to implement
10 July 2017 – The scale of Chinese state aid to its long-distance fisheries sector extends well beyond fuel subsidies to cheap loans, training, and wage supports, according to remarks
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