30 May 2017 – The Ministry of Finance of Viet Nam plans to increase environmental taxes on HCFC (hydro-chloro-fluoro-carbon) solutions and plastic bags. The move is aimed to raise organisations’
26 May 2017 – Koichi Yamamoto, Japan’s environment minister, has a message for his country’s corporate titans – get ready because putting a price on carbon is all but inevitable
18 May 2017 – Christopher Ragan (Chair, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission), Peter Robinson (CEO, David Suzuki Foundation) and Steve Williams (CEO, Suncor Energy) argue that Canada’s carbon pricing policy is striking
25 May 2017 – The world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitting country said it would lower the duty on coal from July 1 and impose a new 18% tax on solar
24 May 2017 – In his recently revealed budget plan President Donald Trump has proposed a 36% cut in the federally subsidized crop insurance program over the next decade among
21 May 2017 – Swiss voters backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities
22 May 2017 – A poll of nearly 3000 people found that just 7 per cent of voters want money from the federal government’s northern Australia investment fund used to
25 May 2017 – President Trump’s recently released budget proposal contains a passage that endorses congestion pricing in urban centers. The paragraph is titled “Incentivize Innovative Approaches to Congestion Mitigation”
24 May 2017 – Jason Dion (Research Associate, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) analyzes how Output-Based Allocations (OBAs) in carbon pricing schemes work and why they make sense. OBAs are a crucial
18 May 2017 – The House of Representatives in the Philippines will soon approve a bill imposing a tax on diesel, kerosene, cooking gas and bunker oil used for electricity
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