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Shifting taxes from labour to resource consumption - Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy: What is Environmental Fiscal Reform? And how could fairer taxes benefit the environment? We have asked few questions to Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Member of the European Parliament.
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Shifting taxes from labour to resource consumption - Jacqueline McGlade: What is Environmental Fiscal Reform? And how could fairer taxes benefit the environment? We have asked few questions to EEA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade
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Consumption and the environment — 2012 update: Update to the European Environment State and Outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) thematic assessment
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Environmental taxes revenue as a share of total tax revenues, EU-27, 1998-2008: A time series for each type of environmental taxes (energy, transport, pollution/resources and total) of EU-27
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Environmental taxes revenue as a share of GDP, EU-27, 1998-2008: A time series for each type of environmental taxes (energy, transport, pollution/resources and total) of EU-27
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Environmental tax reform: increasing individual incomes and boosting innovation: European governments could simultaneously reduce income tax, increase innovation and cut pollution by introducing well-targeted environmental taxes and recycling the revenues back into the economy. This was one of the findings from a pair of reports on environmental tax reform (ETR) published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Environmental tax reform in Europe: opportunities for eco-innovation: Environmental policy instruments are frequently characterised as obstacles to economic activity but environmental taxes can, in fact, be the opposite — serving as catalysts for the creativity that underpins thriving economies.
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Environmental tax reform in Europe: implications for income distribution: Although environmental tax reforms (ETR) tend to improve incomes across society, they can have mild regressive impacts in that richer households gain more than poorer ones. Care is needed to design ETRs in ways that ensure that certain groups are able to benefit equally. ETR's overall benefits for the economy, environment and society are potentially significant. ETR should therefore be regarded as a key element in the policymaking toolkit for shifting to a green economy.
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The difficulties in implementing an eco-tax reform: Michael Jacobs is Visiting Professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He answers the question "In your opinion, what are the difficulties in implementing an eco-tax reform? "
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What are the challenges in persuading governments to adopt an eco-tax reform?: Prof. Mikael Skou Andersen, senior economist at the European Environment Agency, answers two questions: - what are the challenges in persuading governments to adopt an eco-tax reform? - will environmental taxes be an additional burden on the taxpayer? Prof. Mikael Skou Andersen is an environmental economist and policy analyst at the European Environment Agency.
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