14 October 2019: Cuts to subsidies (known as decree 883) were imposed by Ecuador’s President Moreno without any renewable alternative or any sort of rebate. The cut caused a big
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
Global energy consumption rose strongly in 2018 along with energy-related CO2 emissions, reaching a new all-time high. This is disconcerting, as meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement will require
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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