Combating climate change through the welfare state: can social insurance boost support for carbon taxes in Europe?View further author informationJoakim PalmeView further author informationMoa MrtenssonView further author informationLauri PetersonView further author information...
-1-TheMacroeconomicImpactofEurope’sCarbonTaxesGilbertE.MetcalfandJamesH.Stock NBERWorkingPaperNo.27488 July2020 JELNo.E62(H23)Q43,Q54 ABSTRACT PolicymakersoftenexpressconcernabouttheimpactofcarbontaxesonemploymentandGDP.FocusingonEuropeancountriesthathaveimplementedcarbontaxesoverthepast30years,weestimatethemacro...
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Others, such as the UK and Ireland, however, are against Brussels setting taxes. A potential proposal would have to get the unanimous backing of every member state to become law as taxation requires unanimity. But the UK for one is determined to veto such legislation, as it would require a...
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The policy is in effect a tariff, intended to compensate for the fact that foreign firms may face no carbon price, or one that is lower than Europe’s. phase out逐渐停止;使逐步淘汰 carbon border-adjustment mechanism 碳边界调整机制,简称CBAM, [2] 由欧盟委员会提出,旨在避免自身气候政策的有效...
The idea is supported by countries such as Finland and Sweden, who have been applying similar domestic taxes since the early 1990s. Of the big member states, France has turned to the EU in order to seek implementation of a carbon tax after a proposal for a domestic tax was struck down by...
Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policy tools, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating and c
The article focuses on the flaws of carbon taxation in Europe. The first flaw relates to the near certainty that national and Kyoto carbon reductions targets for 2012 will be missed by so many countries. Secondly, there is the issue of windfall revenue, estimated to be billions of euros per...
lacks detailed research on carbon leakage cases in the construction industry; the research methods of published articles mainly focus on applying economic theory and interview questionnaire methods to discuss the carbon leakage mechanism, supporting policies and theoretical analysis of border carbon taxes. ...