This book outlines how an accelerated move to cleaner energy is a global imperative, and one that is especially challenging for emerging economies which often face extreme inequalities, unemployment and poverty. Contributing authors consider perspect...Daugiau...
Integrating insights from economics, law and political science, Biodiversity and Climate: Tackling Global Footprints explores the vital connection between environmental preservation and taxation policies within the multifaceted context of clim...Daugiau...
Taxation and the Green Growth Challenge addresses the pressing issue of how economic growth can be compatible with the fight against climate change, while protecting the environment as much as possible. The book shows how decision-makers must account...Daugiau...
Greenhouse gas concentrations are rapidly increasing and pathways to limit global warming require fundamental economic transitions. Green Deals in the Making addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of Gree...Daugiau...
At a time when climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic pose a global existential threat, this timely and important book explores how policy responses to a pandemic create both opportunities and challenges for the increased use of environmental prici...Daugiau...
Critically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the...Daugiau...
As populations become increasingly concentrated in urban centres and mega cities, while demands on transportation continue to grow, the question of how to mitigate the environmental footprint of these trends is ever more pressing. This comprehensive...Daugiau...
Although the world faces many environmental challenges, climate change continues to demand attention in both academic and public spheres. Innovation Addressing Climate Change Challenges explores ways in which market-based instruments and complementar...Daugiau...
The Paris Agreement on climate change constitutes an important milestone in international climate negotiations. Its key objective is the strengthening of the global response to climate change by transitioning the world to an increasingly green econom...Daugiau...
This timely book focuses on achieving a sustainable future through the reform of green fiscal policy. Green fiscal policies help not only provide the needed financing but may also serve the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations...Daugiau...
Only through a concerted global effort can we protect our natural resources, save our precious natural environment, and indeed our future. Pressures on our natural environment come from many directions, including overuse, mismanagement and contaminat...Daugiau...
The authors in this collection of 31 papers address the broad range of issues related to carbon pricing, which has re-emerged as a serious global debate as fossil fuel prices have dropped. The papers are divided into three general topics: carbon taxe...Daugiau...
Environmental taxes have proven effective in deterring activities and products harmful to the environment. But they also typically have been limited in some countries because policymakers believed they could negatively affect income distribution or i...Daugiau...
In 19 chapters, environmental researchers from Europe, Australia, and Asia examine environmental taxation issues and green fiscal reform. They discuss the underlying economic theory of environmental taxes and their execution; the adoption of the envi...Daugiau...
This volume contains 10 chapters on national experiences in the use of market-based instruments to promote environmental sustainability and ways to improve it. Researchers from Europe, Australia, Asia, and the US look at carbon pricing, monetary inst...Daugiau...
Specialists in carbon pricing to reduce environmental pollution discuss carbon pricing and environmental fiscal reform, low carbon green growth, carbon pricing through emissions trading, emissions trading schemes, impacts of carbon pricing, and carbo...Daugiau...
This volume of the series, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, contains 17 chapters examining the application of fiscal policy to issues of environmental sustainability. They are presented in sections that focus on the measurement of the impac...Daugiau...
This collection of fifteen articles on climate change policy examines fiscal policies around the world focused on inducing practical environmental sustainability through tax strategies. The work is divided into five sections covering an overview of e...Daugiau...
This collection of fourteen articles on tax policy examines fiscally driven efforts to promote environmental sustainability goals in China and other Asian nations. Divided into sections covering environmental tax strategies in China, taxation strateg...Daugiau...
