24 May 2017 – WTO members pressed on with negotiations on potential disciplines for fisheries subsidies, holding four days of intensive discussions at the organisation’s Geneva headquarters. This cluster of
21 May 2017 – Swiss voters backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities
22 May 2017 – A poll of nearly 3000 people found that just 7 per cent of voters want money from the federal government’s northern Australia investment fund used to
25 May 2017 – President Trump’s recently released budget proposal contains a passage that endorses congestion pricing in urban centers. The paragraph is titled “Incentivize Innovative Approaches to Congestion Mitigation”
24 May 2017 – Jason Dion (Research Associate, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) analyzes how Output-Based Allocations (OBAs) in carbon pricing schemes work and why they make sense. OBAs are a crucial
The Think 20 Summit 2017 aims to provide 20 Global Solutions for the G20 on topics such as the digital economy, climate policy and finance, migration and refugees. The summit
18 May 2017 – The House of Representatives in the Philippines will soon approve a bill imposing a tax on diesel, kerosene, cooking gas and bunker oil used for electricity
12 May 2017 – Carbon taxes will be implemented in Singapore from 2019, levied on the largest direct emitters of greenhouse gases, such as power plants. When it comes to
16 May 2017 – An Indian coal-fired power plant is to be paid 983 crore rupees ($150 million) this financial year for generators that are sitting idle. It is one
17 May 2017 – Brendan Frank (Research Analyst, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) argues that the success of British Columbia’s carbon tax cannot be measured in terms of absolute emission reductions, rather
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