Fossil fuel costs must include externalities
2021-03-10
The contribution of the Covid-19 pandemic in bringing down carbon emissions is unparalleled. In doing so, the pandemic and the lockdown also helped quantify the
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Category: Polluter-pay Pricing
API considers backing a government-imposed carbon pricing program
2021-03-10
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY The American Petroleum Institute is considering throwing its weight behind a government-imposed price on carbon dioxide emissions as a way to slow
WTO fisheries subsidy: India insists on ‘polluter pays’ principle
2021-01-21
India has caught to its demand that sure creating international locations be exempted from commitments to remove fisheries subsidies regardless of failure of World Trade
The barriers to a carbon fee and dividend policy (Letters)
2021-01-18
We are working hard to change the government’s mind on carbon fee and dividend, writes Catherine Dawson. The climate crisis cannot be solved within a continuing market
Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis (Environmental and Resource Economics)
2020-12-15
Nils Ohlendorf, Michael Jakob, Jan Christoph Minx, Carsten Schröder & Jan Christoph Steckel ABSTRACT Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change
Introduction of a new plastic packaging tax (GOV.UK)
2020-11-30
General description of the measure This is a new tax that applies to plastic packaging produced in, or imported into, the UK, that does not
The role of green fiscal policy in the recovery from COVID-19: Experiences, good practices and next steps in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC)
2020-11-04
Objective: Exploring the role of green fiscal policies in greening a COVID-19 recovery with the aim of supporting public health efforts, reducing environmental and climate
Carbon Pricing Experts Tell U.K. a Market Is Better Than a Tax (Bloomberg)
2020-10-21
A carbon market linked with the European Union would be a more effective method of reducing pollution in the U.K. after Brexit than an emissions
Shipping industry recognizes their role in the climate crisis in an open letter to the International Maritime Organisation
2019-12-23
19 December 2019: International shipping is responsible for more than 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions (roughly the same contribution as that made by Germany).
Putting a Price on Pollution (Parry 2019)
2019-12-06
In this new article, Ian Parry from the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department argues for putting a price on carbon, for achieving Paris Agreement Commitment. His
