The paper collects comprehensive and detailed data on what 40 OECD and G20 economies do with the revenues from carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue...

Part I - Financial sector, regulation, supervision and sustainability: Rute Saraiva, ESG factors in pensions funds regulations: Why, how far have they gone, and what is the potential for improvement? -- Luciane Moessa, Benchmarking of national ESG banking regulations: State of art and remaining...

In this work we update the regionalization and the calibration of the Regional dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (RICE) in its 1999 version developed by Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), with a focus on the Mediterranean countries. Our aim is to assess the impact of climate change...

This paper aims to analyse European climate policy's state of the art concerning the urgent need to decarbonize society and the economy and meet pressing climate demands. Decarbonization refers to the progressive reduction of the carbon-to-hydrogen ratio within energy sources. The primary...