08.11.2018 – In an effort to limit the emission of polluting gases, the government signed on Wednesday several executive decrees, one of which exempts used electric vehicles from the payment
07.11.2018 – A recent study has shown people are concerned about what’s going to happen as income from the fuel excise diminishes. According to a survey, 47 per cent of people
07.11.2018 – The Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister is calling to stop criticizing the implementation of a new multi-tiered petrol subsidy system and instead to focus on ways to
07.11.2018 – The Bulgarian parliament has voted to change the concept of tax on cars and trucks with a maximum weight of up to 3.5 tons. The amendments provide for
07.11.2018 – A milestone plan to impose America’s first ever price on carbon pollution that would have put a USD 15 fee on each ton of carbon dioxide emitted in the
07.11.2018 – The new Irish Minister for the Environment, Richard Bruton, will set out a proposed trajectory of rising carbon taxes early next year going up to 2030. Read the
07.11.2018 – Voters in the state of Washington rejected, once again, what would have been the US’s first carbon tax. Asking citizens to vote for more taxes is simply always
06.11.2018 – The South Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance temporarily lowered the fuel taxes by 15% for six months in order to reduce the people’s burden of rising gas prices.
24.10.2018 – The South African finance minister, Tito Mboweni, postponed the implementation of South Africa’s carbon tax (PDF) for six months. Delays to introducing South Africa’s promised carbon tax are
Several commitments to reform fossil fuel subsidies have been adopted in recent years including Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12) which sets a target to rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that
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