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Climate and Environmental Tax

As the climate emergency worsens, our research aims to provide more evidence on what types of climate and environmental taxes are desirable for lower-income countries and how to make them successful. Environmental and climate taxes are receiving increasing attention, but the vast majority of existing research focuses on high-income countries, and especially on carbon taxes, on which much of the global debate is focused. However, there are many types of environmental taxes, ranging from forestry taxes to import tariffs on used cars. Some of them may be more feasible and attractive to lower-income countries given their specific economic, administrative and political circumstances and their limited historical responsibility for the current crisis. Our aim is to support shaping environmental tax policies contributing to revenue generation and a green economic transition. 

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Publications

Working Paper

Missing the Forest for the Trees: Ekiti State’s Quest for Forestry Revenue and its Impact on Forest Management

August 2023
Giovanni Occhiali & Michael Falade
Journal Article

What’s the Catch? A Review of the Fiscal Treatments of Fisheries in Sub-Saharan Africa

January 2023
Giovanni Occhiali
Research in Brief

Understanding the Political Economy of South Africa’s Carbon Tax

December 2022
Lucy Baker
Working Paper

The Political Economy of South Africa’s Carbon Tax

November 2022
Lucy Baker
Partner Publication

What’s the catch? Fiscal Policies for Fisheries in five African Countries

February 2022
Giovanni Occhiali
Research in Brief

Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Social Contract in Nigeria: a Micro-economic Analysis

March 2020
Neil McCulloch, Tom Moerenhout & Joonseok Yang
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November 2022|
Blog

COP27: To what degree can environmental taxes play a role in climate financing?

by Giovanni Occhiali

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the annual Conference of the Parties…

July 2022|
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High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet – here’s how to keep them high while avoiding riots or hurting the poor

by Neil McCulloch

In the UK, it now costs more than £100 to fill up a typical family car with petrol, and oil prices could rise even further. But are such high prices for fossil fuels a bad thing?…

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September 2021|
Blog

No ‘green bullet’ – should carbon taxes be introduced in Sub-Saharan Africa?

by Giovanni Occhiali, Charlie Lawrie & Diana Szpotowicz

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, published in August, is the latest clarion call to decarbonise the…

May 2019|
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Taxing plastic production: a solution to India’s plastic waste crisis?

by Rhiannon McCluskey, Patrick Schröder & Lakshmi Narayanan

With the plastic waste crisis gaining increasing attention, both developed and developing countries are under pressure…

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