05.11.2018 – The ‘yellow vests’ – a growing social movement in France is planning to block French roads in protest over the rising cost of diesel and petrol. Nevertheless, the
05.11.2018 – India’s fishery subsidies increased by 23% compared to 2017. The vast majority of the subsidies was doled out by Indian states. This includes a sales tax rebate on diesel,
05.11.2018 – This summer’s drought prompted the German government to give hundreds of millions of Euros to German farmers once again. Clever lobbying has turned the agricultural industry into the biggest
04.11.2018 – Hong Kong’s environment minister Wong Kam-sing called for public support for a proposed mandatory waste charging scheme, saying that the city was already about 20 years behind Seoul and
04.11.2018 – The Vietnamese government has approved Hanoi’s proposal to charge private vehicles that enter congested areas across the city as part of its efforts to reduce traffic jams and environmental
02.11.2018 – This article provides a detailed overview of the transformation of China’s fertilizer sector. The efforts of the Chinese government include imposing environmental taxes on industrial air and water polluters
01.11.2018 – Americans are politically divided over climate change, but there’s broader consensus around some of the solutions. New data from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication show how
01.11.2018 – While worldwide fossil fuel consumption subsidies almost halved between 2012 and 2016, new data for 2017 show a 12% increase in the estimated value of these subsidies, according to
31.10.2018 – UK’s chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a new tax on the manufacture and import of plastic packaging that contains less than 30% recycled plastic. A tax on takeaway
30.10.2018 – Should Britain exit the EU without a deal, UK emitters will pay GBP 16 a ton under a planned Carbon Emissions Tax to replace the EU carbon-market portion
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