Environmental Financial Reform

With an environmental financial reform, we are using fiscal policy and taxation to redirect towards a sustainable and fair economy and society - by reducing subsidies that harm the environment and society, by placing our tax system on a broader basis and by making the consumption of resources and the burden on the climate more expensive. The additional revenue should be used sustainably for investments in the future and social justice. 

 


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Holger Bär

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Publicationtitle

Promoting a green economic recovery from the Corona crisis

Publicationtype Background paper
Publicationabstract

Aligning economic recovery with climate mitigation needs has been a key topic throughout 2020 in many countries as well as in the EU. The underlying challenges are similar in all countries and the examples discussed in this chapter serve as illustrations of how to think about the design of economic recovery policies – they are not a ‘prescription‘ of what recovery policies should look like. The goal is rather to point out some key issues for a green recovery and to enable readers from different countries to use this framework on how to build back better on their own.

Published in "Environmental Taxation in the Pandemic Era", by Hope Ashiabor, Janet E. Milne and Mikael Skou Andersen,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.

Authors
Holger Bär, Matthias Runkel, Kai Schlegelmilch
Publicationdate 2021