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Eliminating traffic in Canada’s biggest cities by putting a price on it
21 November 2019: A new blog by the Canadian Ecofiscal Commission explores options for reducing traffic congestion. It concludes that the best policy mechanism would be adopting a polluter-pay principle
Prices Behind the Meter: efficient economic signals to support decarbonization (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2019)
The electricity consumer is critical to the success of decarbonization. Yet, the economic signals that consumers receive in many countries are likely to discourage efficient decisions and could slow decarbonization
Nine EU countries ask for an aviation carbon tax
11 November 2019: In a joint statement, the Ministers of Finance of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and Bulgaria asked the European Commission to introduce a
A bill in Congress on revenue-neutral carbon tax could slash American greenhouse-gas emissions
13 November 2019: A proposed bill called the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA), could see the U.S. government charge companies for every ton of greenhouse gas they emit
Cuts to inefficient fossil fuels subsidies expected to be delayed in Canada
14 November 2019: As part of Canada’s G20 commitment, the country announced a joint peer review with Argentina in June of 2018 to provide an inventory of the countries’ fossil
Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Impact Greenwashing Are Stalling The Energy Transition
14 November 2019: In his opinion piece in the Forbes, Wal van Lierop’s, the President & CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital argues that governments subsidies towards the fossil fuel sector
A road map for motoring taxation (S. Adam and R. Stroud, 2019)
Revenue from fuel duties peaked at 2.2% of national income in 1999–2000 in the UK. However, the duty-levels have since decreased, resulting in a revenue contraction of £19 billion. Prime
Decades ago, a British economist created the framework for a carbon tax (Podcast)
More than 100 years ago, British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou explained how to tax things like pollution. His insight on how to deal with negative externalities of industry activities is
Experts address Southeast-Asian dependance on coal during the Asian Clean Energy Summit and offer solutions
5 November 2019: Speaking last week at the Asian Clean Energy Summit, part of Singapore International Energy Week 2019, experts have said that Southeast Asia’s fast-growing economies need to abandon