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Germany adopts the Climate Action Law including levies on air and road travel
11 October 2019: The German government cabinet has adopted its first Climate Action Law, including a CO2 price for transport and buildings and a slew of incentives and regulatory actions
Job losses and political acceptability of climate policies (Vona, 2019)
Political acceptability is an essential issue in choosing appropriate climate policies. Francesco Vona, a senior Economist at the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques of Sciences-Po, suggests that the job losses ascribed
Mali’s new law imposes a higher tax on gold mining and creates a regional development fund
8 October 2019: Mali’s long-awaited mining reforms passed by ordinance in August include a higher tax on gold mining, with the main purpose of allowing the government to capture a
Irish Budget 2020: introducing NOx emissions tax and increasing carbon taxes
8 October 2019: Delivered to the Dáil by the Minister for Finance on Tuesday, October 8, the Budget 2020 includes a new tax based on a vehicle’s nitrogen oxide (NOx)
UBS survey reveals: ‘flight shame’ and taxes could halve growth in passenger numbers
2 October 2019: When calculating the growth in the aviation industry, the Swiss bank UBS, took into account increases in flight taxes and feelings of flight shame, captured by its
Conservation finance: Costa Rica’s reforestation success
10 October 2019: The Latin American nation has undertaken serious measures to rebuild its natural environment over the last three decades. Paid for in part by a fuel tax and
Travel firm urges the UK government to raise environmental taxes on aviation
8 October 2019: Responsible Travels says that the Air Passanger Duty (ADP) for flyng from airports in the UK should increase sharply, particularly for domestic flights and travel in any
How market-correcting subsidies could reconfigure agricultural trade (Chatham House, 2019)
A new paper on trade-related issues affecting the food and land use systems suggests that in order to reconfigure the global trade in agriculture products, policymakers should remove perverse incentives
UK government rejects MP’s calls to stop spending billions on overseas fossil fuel projects
2 October 2019: The UK Export Finance (UKEF), a government body that underwrites loans and insurance to help British firms secure business abroad, had spent £2.6bn in the last five