Cap and trade mechanisms enjoy increasing importance in environmental legislations worldwide. One of the important aspects of designing cap and trade mechanisms is the possibility of authorities to grant emission permits for free. Unlike analyzed in the seminal contributions on cap and trade...

This article provides an overview of specific and systemic applications of energy taxes and environmental (or green) tax reforms. To do so it combines a theoretical and empirical assessment of the literature, with anon-exhaustive description of the practice of these instruments and packages in...

China's resource tax reform, beginning with Xinjiang as a pilot area in June 2010, marked a new stage in the progression of China's resource tax system. Based on the 2007 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Xinjiang, constructed by ourselves, this paper takes a regional perspective on China's...

The paper surveys the literature on environmental taxation in the context of the climate change problem. It reviews the use of taxes as instruments of environmental management and notes the strengths and weaknesses of the applications. The performance of taxes relative to permits depends on the...

This paper presents a range of insights from recent literature on how climate-change policies and other environmental policies interact with the fiscal system. It explores four issues associated with fiscal interactions. First, it examines how these interactions influence the prospects for a...

Einkommensschwache Haushalte können sich nachhaltige Produkte - wie Bio-Lebensmittel oder Fairtrade-Kleidung - oft nicht leisten. Das Gefühl von Einkommensungleichheit wird durch das Bedürfnis nach nachhaltigen, aber teureren Produkten verstärkt. Was kann der Staat in einer solchen Situation...

Einkommensschwache Haushalte können sich nachhaltige Produkte - wie Bio-Lebensmittel oder Fairtrade-Kleidung - oft nicht leisten. Das Gefühl von Einkommensungleichheit wird durch das Bedürfnis nach nachhaltigen, aber teureren Produkten verstärkt. Was kann der Staat in einer solchen Situation...

Cap and trade mechanisms enjoy increasing importance in environmental legislations worldwide. One of the important aspects of designing cap and trade mechanisms is the possibility of authorities to grant emission permits for free. Unlike analyzed in the seminal contributions on cap and trade...

This article analyses the cost implications of an EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for downstream industries in Germany. The restriction to a few basic industries as envisaged in the EU Commission’s proposal is expected to lead to only a slight increase in input costs for...

Conservation payment schemes, typically spatially homogenous, are widely used to induce biodiversity-friendly land use. They can also address habitat fragmentation if a bonus is added to the homogenous base payment when conservation measures are implemented next to other conserved lands....