06.11.2018 – The South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance temporarily lowered the fuel taxes by 15% for six months in order to reduce the people’s burden of rising gas prices.
24.10.2018 – The South African finance minister, Tito Mboweni, postponed the implementation of South Africa’s carbon tax (PDF) for six months. Delays to introducing South Africa’s promised carbon tax are
Several commitments to reform fossil fuel subsidies have been adopted in recent years including Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12) which sets a target to rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that
05.11.2018 – The ‘yellow vests’ – a growing social movement in France is planning to block French roads in protest over the rising cost of diesel and petrol. Nevertheless, the
05.11.2018 – India’s fishery subsidies increased by 23% compared to 2017. The vast majority of the subsidies was doled out by Indian states. This includes a sales tax rebate on diesel,
05.11.2018 – This summer’s drought prompted the German government to give hundreds of millions of Euros to German farmers once again. Clever lobbying has turned the agricultural industry into the biggest
04.11.2018 – Hong Kong’s environment minister Wong Kam-sing called for public support for a proposed mandatory waste charging scheme, saying that the city was already about 20 years behind Seoul and
04.11.2018 – The Vietnamese government has approved Hanoi’s proposal to charge private vehicles that enter congested areas across the city as part of its efforts to reduce traffic jams and environmental
02.11.2018 – This article provides a detailed overview of the transformation of China’s fertilizer sector. The efforts of the Chinese government include imposing environmental taxes on industrial air and water polluters
01.11.2018 – Americans are politically divided over climate change, but there’s broader consensus around some of the solutions. New data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication show how
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