Carbon pricing, growth and the environment / edited by Larry Kreiser ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kreiser, Larry.

Series:

Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation Series

Critical issues in environmental taxation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emissions trading.

Carbon offsetting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This original and timely volume provides unique insights and analysis on the pressing question of how to achieve environmental sustainability while fostering economic growth. The emphasis of the book lies in finding critical solutions to global climate change including chapters on environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain; EU structural and cohesion policy and sustainable development; ecological tax reform in Europe and Asia; Australia's carbon pricing mechanism and many other timely topics. This insightful volume will appeal to policy makers in government as well as academics and

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Editorial review board; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I Carbon pricing and environmental fiscal reform; 1. Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain; 2. EU structural and cohesion policy and sustainable development; 3. Decentralized environmental taxation: a preliminary assessment; PART II Low carbon green growth; 4. Taxation reform for promoting low carbon green growth in China; 5. Ecological tax reform in Europe and Central Asia; 6. Lower carbon energy: the case of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas

PART III Carbon pricing through emissions trading7. Emissions trading to improve visibility in specially protected areas in the US: an alternative to retrofit control requirements in a sustainable economy; 8. Related party transactions and emissions rights: accounting and direct international taxation; 9. Harmful subsidies on fossil fuels: ETS windfall profits and coal protection for electricity in Spain; PART IV Emissions trading schemes; 10. GHG emissions trading schemes in Northeast Asia: an overview and analysis of current scenarios

11. Towards sustainable carbon markets: requirements for effective, efficient, and fair emissions trading schemes12. Linking land sector activities to emissions trading: Australia's carbon farming initiative; PART V Impacts of carbon pricing; 13. Determinants of willingness to pay for emissions reduction: a comparative study of Japan and South Korea; 14. The effects of carbon/energy taxes on R&D expenditure in Sweden; 15. Carbon-energy tax, emission permits and border tax adjustments; PART VI Carbon leakage concerns

16. Is carbon leakage really low? A critical reconsideration of the leakage concept17. Australia's carbon pricing mechanism; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-69888-9

1-78195-219-1

OCLC:

814694326