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Category Archives: Flexible emission fees
This year’s Stipendium 2019 Awarded to Dr. Flavio Gazzani, University of Rome
This year’s stipendium went to a researcher in Italy, Dr. Flavio Gazzani.
Canada’s new carbon tax in line with TSSEF mechanisms
CANADA: A carbon surcharge tax that actually increases disposable income is being introduced starting spring January 2019. According to a report on the Guardian Website, the tax will [..]
Swedish Climate Parliament calls for a true carbon budget
Just as budgets steer every household and every corporation, so should every nation signed up to the Paris Agreement be steered by a carbon budget. This carbon budget [..]
Urgent Environmental Fiscal Reform needed for fossil fuel and nitrogen
The topic of OECD policy discussions since the early 2000s, EFR, Environmental Fiscal Reform – a shift in economic policies to incentivize businesses to stay within ecological boundaries [..]
Money and markets can truly serve human values and the Earth
Money and markets are powerful tools in developing our world, most would agree. But many have experienced negative effects in their application; including environmental degradation, unequal distribution and [..]
US Council promotes mechanism for Carbon Dividend plan similar to TSSEF’s proposal
The New York times from 8th Feb 2017 carries an article announcing a carbon dividend plan put forward by leading Republicans including James A. Baker III, Treasury secretary [..]
Did we save the environment AND the economy? Simulation results.
Stockholm 22 October, 2015: A group of about 15 economics and environmentally-engaged professionals met to participate in the Foundation’s first public simulation of dividend-bearing pollutant fees. The idea is [..]
Playing with pollution: an introduction to the simulation
This short (3,5 minutes) video explains what goes on in the Foundation’s simulation and business game, designed to increase understanding of economic measures to stimulate pollution reduction. The [..]
An energy descent framework for COP21 in Paris
In the run-up to the climate talks in Paris, November 2015, the world economy seems to have hit a predicament: restricting fossil fuel burning at a time when [..]
Presentation of fiscal approaches to circular economy
Stephen Hinton was invited to present how fiscal reform could drive a circular economy and help relieve the Baltic Sea of its nutrient burden. This is a longer [..]