Major oil companies support carbon taxation
11 April 2017 – Tina Rosenberg (Editorial writer and Author) explores the reasons why oil companies like Exxon Mobile and BP endorse a carbon tax. Read the full article on
11 April 2017 – Tina Rosenberg (Editorial writer and Author) explores the reasons why oil companies like Exxon Mobile and BP endorse a carbon tax. Read the full article on
11 April 2017 – The Swedish government has announced sweeping reforms of fuel and vehicle taxation. The proposals have been developed to reach a new target of reducing CO2 emissions
4 April 2017 – Femke Groothuis (President of the The Ex’tax Project) argues that taxing pollution and natural resource consumption creates fiscal systems that are pro-growth, pro-jobs and pro-equality, aligned
9 April 2017 – The Mayor of the Canadian City of Montreal, Denis Coderre, finds congestion charge implemented in London ‘inspiring,’ but the policy can be politically fraught. Read the
10 April 2017 – G7 energy ministers failed to agree on a statement supporting the Paris climate accord after the US delegation said it was reviewing its position. However, the Trump administration
5 April 2017 –Â Government revenues from environmental taxes amounted to EUR 359.3 billion in 2015 among European Union countries. The highest share of environmental taxes was in Croatia, while
6 April 2017 – Jason Dion (Research Associate, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) discusses some of the challenges of introducing carbon pricing in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Read the full article on the
5 April 2017 – Trump says he wants to shrink America’s trade deficit with China, but the best way to do that would be to focus on the subsidies that
4 April 2017 – A broad coalition of more than 120 companies and organisations call on the Dutch government to embrace a tax shift from labour to resource use and
4 April 2017 – London’s congestion charge is set to be extended under new plans from Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants to charge the most heavily polluting cars and vans
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