The Transnational Institute has just published a report setting out ten proposals to mobilise resources to cover the cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic and to pay for the transition away from the fossil fuel economy. As the report points out in its conclusion, the multiple crises facing both the … [Read more...]
Climate Crisis
Online conference: How to pay for the climate transition – Registration open
Two day online event: 10 and 11 December / 9:00 - 12:30 PST / 14:00 – 17:30 GMT / 15:00 - 18:30 CEST / 19:30 - 23:00 IST Register here As the climate crisis comes into ever sharper focus the question of how we pay for a just transition takes on an ever-greater urgency. Plenty of voices … [Read more...]
Carbon Taxes Can Be Progressive: Myth-busting and Mainstreaming Carbon Taxes
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Jacqueline Cottrell, in which she explains that while carbon taxes were once at the centre of discussions about tackling climate crisis, aggressive lobbying by fossil … [Read more...]
What’s your SCORE? The case for Sustainable Cost Reporting
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Richard Murphy, in which he outlines how radical changes to accounting rules would require companies to comprehensively disclose their carbon emissions. Sustainable Cost … [Read more...]
Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Taxation: Two Sides of the Same Carbon Coin
We recently published a two part Tax Justice Focus special on climate crisis and tax justice. This blog reproduces the article by Laura Merrill, in which she outlines how massive direct and indirect state subsidies have overwhelmingly distorted energy markets to favour fossil-fuel consumption, … [Read more...]
