Urbanisation, growing population pressure and extreme weather conditions could all contribute to food insecurity. In the context of greenhouse farming, vegetables are harvested in a controlled environment, resulting in high-quality production with minimum resources. Such green infrastructure has...

This paper evaluates energy tax reform in the Netherlands between 1988 and 2002 from a climate change perspective. A tax on fuels and the so-called regulatory energy tax since 1996 are examples of indirect and non-uniform taxation of emissions. The overall tax base and rate structure...

This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...