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101 relations: Amory Lovins, Associated Press, Balearic Islands, Camping, Canada, Carbon fee and dividend, Carbon tax, Chongqing, Climate change, Command and control regulation, Commerce Clause, Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, Constitution of the United States, Consumption tax, Corporate tax, David Miliband, Duty (tax), Eco-social market economy, Eco-socialism, Eco-tariff, Effluent, Electronic Waste Recycling Fee, Energy, Energy efficient mortgage, Energy Tax Act, Environmental crime, Environmental issues, Environmental tax, Excess burden of taxation, Externality, Fee, Feebate, Finland, Fishing, Forest, Fossil fuel, Four-wheel drive, Free market, Free-market environmentalism, Friends of the Earth, Fuel Price Escalator, Geolibertarianism, Georgism, Germany, Global resources dividend, Gordon Brown, Government, Green politics, Green roof, Greenhouse gas, ... Expand index (51 more) »
Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Balearic Islands
The Balearic Islands (Illes Balears; Islas Baleares or) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Camping
Camping is a form of outdoor recreation or outdoor education involving overnight stays with a basic temporary shelter such as a tent.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Carbon fee and dividend
A carbon fee and dividend or climate income is a system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.
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Carbon tax
A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon emissions from producing goods and services. Environmental tax and carbon tax are environmental law.
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Command and control regulation
Command and Control (CAC) regulation finds common usage in academic literature and beyond.
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Commerce Clause
The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).
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Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana
Commonwealth Edison Co.
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Consumption tax
A consumption tax is a tax levied on consumption spending on goods and services.
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Corporate tax
A corporate tax, also called corporation tax or company tax, is a type of direct tax levied on the income or capital of corporations and other similar legal entities.
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David Miliband
David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the International Rescue Committee and a former British Labour Party politician.
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Duty (tax)
In economics, a duty is a target-specific form of tax levied by a state or other political entity.
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Eco-social market economy
The eco-social market economy (ESME), also known as the socio-ecological market economy (SEME) or social and ecological market economy, aims at balancing free market economics, striving for social fairness, and the sustainable use and protection of natural resources.
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Eco-socialism
Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism, socialist ecology, ecological materialism, or revolutionary ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization.
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Eco-tariff
An eco-tariff, also known as an environmental tariff or carbon tariff, is a trade barrier for the purpose of reducing pollution and improving the environment. Environmental tax and eco-tariff are environmental law.
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Effluent
Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility.
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Electronic Waste Recycling Fee
An Electronic Waste Recycling Fee is a fee imposed by government on new purchases of electronic products.
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Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
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Energy efficient mortgage
An energy efficient mortgage (EEM) (or "green mortgage") is a loan product that allows borrowers to reduce their utility bill costs by allowing them to finance the cost of improving the energy-efficiency of the real estate property, at the point of the house purchase or the refinancing of existing housing.
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Energy Tax Act
The Energy Tax Act (enacted November 9, 1978) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress as part of the National Energy Act.
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Environmental crime
Environmental crime is an illegal act which directly harms the environment. Environmental tax and Environmental crime are environmental law.
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Environmental issues
Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.
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Environmental tax
An environmental tax, ecotax (short for ecological taxation), or green tax is a tax levied on activities which are considered to be harmful to the environment and is intended to promote environmentally friendly activities via economic incentives. Environmental tax and environmental tax are environmental law.
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Excess burden of taxation
In economics, the excess burden of taxation is one of the economic losses that society suffers as the result of taxes or subsidies.
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Externality
In economics, an externality or external cost is an indirect cost or benefit to an uninvolved third party that arises as an effect of another party's (or parties') activity.
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Fee
A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services.
Feebate
Feebate is a portmanteau of "fee" and "rebate".
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Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
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Forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.
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Four-wheel drive
A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.
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Free market
In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.
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Free-market environmentalism
Free-market environmentalism argues that the free market, property rights, and tort law provide the best means of preserving the environment, internalizing pollution costs, and conserving resources.
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Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of grassroots environmental organizations in 73 countries.
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Fuel Price Escalator
The Fuel Price Escalator (later Fuel Duty Stabiliser), a fuel duty policy in the United Kingdom ahead of inflation, was introduced in March 1993 as a measure to stem the increase in pollution from road transport and cut the need for new road building at a time of major road protests, at Twyford Down and other locations.
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Geolibertarianism
Geolibertarianism is a political and economic ideology that integrates libertarianism with Georgism.
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Georgism
Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Global resources dividend
The global resources dividend (GRD) is a method of tackling global poverty advanced by the philosopher Thomas Pogge.
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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
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Green politics
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.
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Green roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
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Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment.
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Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
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Hybrid electric vehicle
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a type of hybrid vehicle that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) system with an electric propulsion system (hybrid vehicle drivetrain).
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Income tax
An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) in respect of the income or profits earned by them (commonly called taxable income).
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Indian rupee
The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.
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Jet fuel
Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is a charity that conducts and funds research aimed at solving poverty in the UK.
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Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.
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Land value tax
A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it.
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License
A license (US) or licence (Commonwealth) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
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Location efficient mortgage
A location efficient mortgage (LEM) is a mortgage available to people who buy a home in locations where public transportation is readily available.
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Madras School of Economics
Madras School of Economics (Institute of Special Importance) is an institution of higher education in economics, located in Chennai, India.
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Market governance mechanism
Market governance mechanisms (MGMs) are formal, or informal rules, that have been consciously designed to change the behaviour of various economic actors.
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Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.
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Ministry of Finance (China)
The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China is the constituent department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China which administers macroeconomic policies and the annual budget.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic.
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Payroll tax
Payroll taxes are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their employees.
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Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Permaculture
Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems.
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Pigouvian tax
A Pigouvian tax (also spelled Pigovian tax) is a tax on any market activity that generates negative externalities (i.e., external costs incurred by third parties that are not included in the market price).
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Policy Studies Institute
The Policy Studies Institute (PSI) is a British think-tank and research institute.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
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Progressive tax
A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.
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Property tax
A property tax (whose rate is expressed as a percentage or per mille, also called millage) is an ad valorem tax on the value of a property.
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Raja Chelliah
Raja Jesudoss Chelliah (12 December 1922 – 7 April 2009) was an economist and founding chairman of the Madras School of Economics.
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Regressive tax
A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases.
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Remote work
Remote work (also called telecommuting, telework, work from home—or WFH as an initialism, hybrid work, and other terms) is the practice of working from one's home or another space rather than from an office.
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Renminbi
The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.
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Return on investment
Return on investment (ROI) or return on costs (ROC) is the ratio between net income (over a period) and investment (costs resulting from an investment of some resources at a point in time).
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Sales tax
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.
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Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, also referred to as the environment secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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Severance tax
Severance taxes are taxes imposed on the removal of natural resources within a taxing jurisdiction.
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South China Karst
The South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 2007, spans the provinces of Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) is the permanent body of the National People's Congress (NPC), the national legislature of the People's Republic of China.
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Steering tax
A steering tax or ecological incentive tax is a tax which aims to change the behaviour of the tax payer, as defined by lawmakers, and not particularly to increase tax revenue.
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Supremacy Clause
The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Sustainability
Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time.
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SUV
A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a car classification that combines elements of road-going passenger cars with features from off-road vehicles, such as raised ground clearance and four-wheel drive.
Tax
A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or as a way to regulate and reduce negative externalities.
Tax shift
Tax shift or tax swap is a change in taxation that eliminates or reduces one or several taxes and establishes or increases others while keeping the overall revenue the same.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Thomas Pogge
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (born 13 August 1953) is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, United States.
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True cost accounting
True Cost Accounting (TCA) is an accounting approach that measures and values the hidden impacts of economic activities on the environment, society and health.
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Unintended consequences
In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
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Yellow vests protests
The Yellow Vests Protests or Yellow Jackets Protests or Yellow Vests Revolution (Mouvement des gilets jaunes) are a series of populist, grassroots weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018.
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References
Also known as Eco-taxes, EcoTax, Ecological fiscal reform, Ecological tax reform, Ecological taxation, Ecology tax, Ecotaxes, Effluent fee, Emission tax, Environment Affecting Tax, Environmental taxation, Environmental taxes, Green Shift, Green tax, Green tax shift, Green tax shifting, Green taxes, Pollution Taxes, Pollution tax, Registration taxe.