While this landmark achievement is often ascribed to the cap-and-trade system built into the Montreal Protocol , the fact is that emissions barely dropped until a U.
The rate of reduction in emissions in , the first year with the tax, was at least five times greater than in the preceding period with the cap alone. While a more aggressive cap might have worked by itself, the fact is that, contrary to Krupp, a pollution tax did the job quite well. Back then, EDF understood the simple idea that when something becomes more expensive to do, people do less of it.
Institutional barriers like split incentives and unequal access to capital need to be addressed by complementary policies.
Regulatory standards, technology-forcing measures and pollution limits all have a part to play. John Larson D-Conn. The market insiders lined up at the cap-and-trade trough will gnash their teeth.
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Extra tax revenues can be used for social purposes such as lowering income taxes, increasing spending on infrastructure or health, or funding direct transfers to households.
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They promote energy saving and the use of renewable sources. They discourage anti-ecological behaviour. They motivate companies to innovate in sustainability. They generate revenue for governments, allowing other taxes to be lowered or environmental projects to be carried out. They protect the environment. The IMF has proposed that the countries that emit the most greenhouse gases establish a tax on CO 2 emissions.
The agency maintains that this rate will impact, mainly, in the use of coal to generate electricity. This type of tax seeks to shift more polluting forms of energy in favour of less polluting ones, such as renewables. The ideal situation for environmental taxation is what is known as the double dividend hypothesis. Contrary to the prejudice that environmental taxes burden the economy, a scenario in which the rise in these taxes would be compensated by a reduction in taxes on labour, capital or consumption would result in a double benefit: an improvement in the environmental quality and efficiency of the economic system.
Each country has its own design regarding environmental taxes. In spite of this, at the international level the main taxable facts with environmental interest are:. The emissions of nitrogen monoxide NO and nitrogen dioxide NO 2 which are produced, above all, by combustion vehicles. The emissions of sulpher dioxide SO 2 —the main cause of acid rain —especially produced by the combustion of petroleum products and the burning of coal.
Waste management domestic, commercials, industrials, construction, etc. The noise made by the take-off and landing of aircraft. Energy products petrol, diesel, natural gas, coal, electricity generation from fuels, etc. Sources of water pollution pesticides, artificial fertilizers, acids, etc.
Earth manipulation and the extraction and use of natural resources. The emissions of carbon dioxide CO 2. Products that reduce the ozone layer. Transport polluting vehicle registration, use, import or sales. In terms of industries, the one most affected by environmental taxation is energy.
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