By putting a price on pollution, taxes and tradable permit systems incentivise emissions abatement at the lowest possible cost. The OECD's work on tax and the environment investigates to what extent countries harness the power of taxes and tradable permit systems for environmental and climate policy. Additional topics of expertise include the interaction between environmental taxation and the broader tax system, and the impacts of environmental taxes on competitiveness and on equity.
OECD at UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) • 2-14 December 2018
The key objective of this year’s COP24 is to adopt the implementation guidelines of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
The OECD is actively contributing to this important event through a series of side events, publications, and by taking part in a number of workshops, seminars and other events throughout the conference.
Green Talks Webinar - Carbon pricing trends: Measuring the momentum • 18 September 2018 Decarbonisation keeps climate change in check and contributes to cleaner air and water. Carbon pricing is a cost-effective means of reducing CO2 emissions, but countries are still not using this tool to its full potential to curb climate change. OECD experts presented the key findings from the report on Effective Carbon Rates, which measures pricing of CO2-emissions from energy use in 42 OECD and G20 countries, covering 80% of world emissions, and provided a first appreciation of countries’ progress since 2012.
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Green Talks Webinar - Taxing Energy Use: Reforming energy tax systems to achieve environmental goals • 14 February 2018
With almost no emissions from energy use priced at levels required to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius, there is still considerable scope, and an urgent need, to improve the use of taxation to reduce pollution and combat climate change.
How do energy and carbon taxes differ across countries, different fuels and sectors? What should be done to reduce emissions and reach global climate goals at minimum cost?
OECD Green Talks webinar • 26 September 2016
OECD Environment Director, Simon Upton, hosts Kurt Van Dender, OECD environmental tax policy expert to discussed the OECD's latest publication on Effective Carbon Rates - a new, combined measure of the extent to which countries use taxes and emissions trading systems to price carbon, and to introduce the carbon pricing gap.
6th ITD Global Conference: Tax & the Environment • 1-3 July 2015
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