De Beers Prepares for South African Carbon Tax
5 May 2017 – De Beers, the diamond unit of Anglo American, will attempt to capture carbon within the rock from which diamonds are extracted in order to offset its
5 May 2017 – De Beers, the diamond unit of Anglo American, will attempt to capture carbon within the rock from which diamonds are extracted in order to offset its
11 May 2017 – While the richest country on Earth contemplates pulling out of the Paris climate agreement to limit global emissions, Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries, is planning
9 May 2017 – While raising the gas tax is still a politically treacherous idea in Washington, lawmakers in state capitals are increasingly coming around to it. Already this year,
3 May 2017 – Femke Groothuis (President of the The Ex’tax Project) argues that a major overhaul of the tax code is required to achieve a circular economy as public
4 May 2017 – In this article Vincent H. Smith (Director, Agricultural Studies Program, American Enterprise Institute) argues that instead of cutting assistance to developing countries to increase defense spending,
10 May 2017 – Tobias Schmidt (Professor, ETH Zurich) and Tyeler Matsuo (Researcher, ETH Zurich) argue that reforming fossil fuel subsidies is more complex than simply reducing the total sum
10 May 2017 – The Canadian federal government’s plan to impose a carbon tax on provinces that do not do it themselves is expected to mimic the Alberta carbon program,
3 May 2017 – Dale Beugin (Executive Director & Research Director, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) discusses how carbon pricing creates incentives for emitters to produce fewer GHG emissions. Further, he analyzes
This webinar organised by BIOFIN in collaboration with GIZ and OECD on Greening and Reforming Harmful Subsidies which looks at emerging trends and responses to the challenge of reforming subsidies
4 May 2017 – In the lead up to this year’s high-level UN Ocean Conference, a key focus is on efforts to end harmful fisheries subsidies (SDG 14.6). This discussion
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