Green Market Transition

Edited by Stefan E. Weishaar, Professor of Law and Economics, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Larry Kreiser, Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Cleveland State University, Janet E. Milne, Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, US, Hope Ashiabor, Dr., University of New South Wales Business School, Australia and Michael Mehling, Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

‘Stefan Weishaar brought an excellent group of authors together in this book, reflecting on key developments for the green market transition! Happy to read so many refreshing contributions on carbon taxes, energy subsidies and smart instrument mixes.’

• Contents:Part I Carbon taxes 1. Carbon Tax Choices: The Tale of Four StatesJanet E. Milne2. Carbon Taxation in EU Member States: Evidence from the Transport SectorClaudia Kettner and Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig 3. The Effect of Carbon Taxes on Emissions and Carbon Leakage: Evidence from the European UnionMaria Alsina Pujols4. To Incentivise or Penalise: An Analysis of the proposed Carbon Tax in South Africa Lee-Ann Steenkamp 5. Is the use of Carbon Offsets in the South African Carbon Tax a Smart mix?Memory Machingambi6. Linking Carbon Tax Systems under the Paris Agreement: Potentials and RisksNicolas Kreibich and Hanna Wang-HelmreichPart II Energy Subsidies and Support Schemes7. Renewable Energy Deployment at the Interplay between Support Policies and Fossil Fuel SubsidiesMartina Zahno and Paula Castro 8. Considerations against Subsidies and Tax Incentives for Nuclear EnergyHans Sprohge and Larry Kreiser9. Economic Effects of reforming Energy Tax Exemptions for the Industry in GermanyAnett Großmann, Christian Lutz10. Parafiscal Charges and Contributions to General Electricity Networks: a Legal Analysis of its Nature under the Scope of Directive 2003/96 and the EU State aids regimeMarta Villar Ezcurra and Enrique Fonseca CapdevilaPart III Policy Dynamics and Constraints11. Why are Green Fiscal Policies such a small part of Green Economic Policies? Evidence from three European CountriesGeert Woltjer, Marius Hasenheit, Vasileios Rizos, Igor Taranic, Cristian Stroia12. Conceptualising a Tax Policy mix for Resource Efficiency – Selected results from a three transition pathways approachBettina Bahn-Walkoviak, Henning Wilts, Mark Meyer and Martin Distelkamp 13. System Complexity as Key Determinant in achieving Efficacious Policy Transposition and Implementation Claudia Fruhmann, Andreas Tuerk, Veronika Kulmer and Sebastian Seebauer14. Developing the North American Carbon Market: Prospects for Sustainable Linking Sven Rudolph, Takeshi Kawakatsu and Achim Lerch15. Towards a ‘Third Dividend’ Analysis for Innovative Environmental Taxation Policies and Allocations: A Smart Instrument mix for the Reduction of CO2 emissionsSixtine Van Outryve d’Ydewalle and Sébastien WolffPart IV In Search of Instruments in Other Policy Areas 16. Landscape and Taxation: the “minor” InstrumentsSilvia Giorgi17. Exploring the Policy Mix for Biodiversity Financing: Opportunities provided by Environmental Fiscal Instruments in the EUAndrea Illes, Marianne Kettunen, Patrick ten Brink, Rui Santos, Nils Droste and Irene RingIndex