The need to reform EU funding and recent political developments such as Brexit and the withdrawal from the USA from the 2015 Paris climate agreement could revitalise the debate about the introduction of border carbon adjustments (BCA) for the European emission trading system (ETS). The...

In der vorliegenden Analyse werden die Auswirkungen der Maßnahmen zur Begrenzung der Ausbreitung von COVID-19 auf die Treibhausgasemissionen in Österreich untersucht. Dazu wurde ein neues Modell, ALICE, entwickelt, das die kurz- bis mittelfristigen Auswirkungen von Produktions- und...

Economic literature generally favours market-based instruments for regulating environmental externalities since they ensure compliance at the least cost to society. Emission taxes have been increasingly introduced internationally, with the focus shifting to CO2 after the adoption of the Kyoto...

This paper provides an overview of energy and (implicit) CO2 taxation in the EU member countries. Against the background of the EU energy taxation directives, energy and implicit CO2 tax rates in the EU countries are discussed, focussing on taxation in the transport sector as a major non-ETS...