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Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future

  • Categories: Law

Critically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the world.

Environmental Fiscal Challenges for Cities and Transport
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Environmental Fiscal Challenges for Cities and Transport

  • Categories: Law

As populations become increasingly concentrated in urban centres and mega cities, while demands on transportation continue to grow, the question of how to mitigate the environmental footprint of these trends is ever more pressing. This comprehensive book demonstrates the potentially significant role of environmental taxation and other market-based instruments in meeting these challenges.

Environmental Taxation in the Pandemic Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Environmental Taxation in the Pandemic Era

  • Categories: Law

At a time when climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic pose a global existential threat, this timely and important book explores how policy responses to a pandemic create both opportunities and challenges for the increased use of environmental pricing instruments, such as carbon taxes, and tradable permit schemes, and targeted green fiscal incentives.

Environmental Taxes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Environmental Taxes

Environmental taxes differ from each other according to the functions they serve and the manner in which they are implemented. This study highlights the appropriateness of different kinds of environmental taxes against a rigorous framework of theory and case study evidence. The purpose of this book is to analyse the way in which environmental taxes are categorized and which factors affect the effectiveness and efficiency of the different kinds of environmental taxes in practice. This pragmatic approach is emphasized along with the multiplicity of regulatory problems such as: At what level should the environmental tax rate be set? What is the proper time schedule for introducing an environmen...

Environmental Border Tax Adjustments and International Trade Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Environmental Border Tax Adjustments and International Trade Law

  • Categories: Law

This timely book brings clarity to the debate on the new legal phenomenon of environmental border tax adjustments. It will help form a better understanding of the role and limits these taxes have on environmental policies in combating global environmental challenges, such as climate change.

The Global Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The Global Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-25
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  • Publisher: CQ Press

The new edition of Regina S. Axelrod and Stacy D. VanDeveer’s award-winning volume, The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, reflects the latest events in global environmental politics and sustainable development while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, issues, laws, and policies. The volume has been reorganized to better highlight global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes an expanded set of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption. Based on reviewer feedback, the new edition broadens coverage of the growing global environmental agenda and explores the relationships between states, NGOs, and international organizations.

The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on the effectiveness of environmentally related taxes and their potential for wider use.

EU Climate Change Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

EU Climate Change Policy

. . . this excellent edited collection assembled by Peeters and Deketelaere on the achievements of EU climate change policy is a very timely publication. They have brought together nineteen distinguished, mostly European scholars, on climate law and policy to provide an informative account of the flurry of initiatives. Benjamin J. Richardson, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law This book explores the current policy measures adopted by the EU in order to realize its Kyoto Protocol commitment and to prepare for further emission reductions after 2012. EU Climate Change Policy focuses on legal instruments, with emissions trading at the forefront of the policy package, accompanied ...

Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 18 (2012)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 18 (2012)

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA) in collaboration with DILA-Korea, the Secretariat of DILA, in South Korea. When it was launched, the Yearbook was the first publication of its kind, edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. It provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law and other Asian international legal topics. The objectives of the Yearbook are two-fold. First,...

Law in the EU's Circular Energy System
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Law in the EU's Circular Energy System

  • Categories: Law

Adopting a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this expertly crafted book comprehensively maps out the complex multi-jurisdictional legal landscape pertaining to the EU’s circular energy system. Offering in-depth critical analysis, it identifies several areas of law and policy that require further scholarly inquiry to ensure the creation of an effective policy framework which can facilitate the move from a linear to a circular energy system.