Aims

The conference provides a forum for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information about environmental taxation across international boundaries and disciplines. The aim is directed to show, through best practices, how market instruments can give an important contribution to change deep-rooted habits, both imposing financial burden on less desirable and providing incentives to virtuous ones. The fifth annual conference on environmental taxation will mainly focus on the use of taxes and other economic instruments to achieve the aim of sustainable mobility.

Issues

During the first day the conference will focus on two main topics: the use of environmental taxation to tackle traffic generated problems in urban areas and the comparison of environmental taxes with other market-based instruments in addressing environmental problems . Topics will particularly include:

• Environmental taxation for sustainable mobility in urban areas;
• A comparison of environmental taxes with other market-based instruments in addressing environmental problems: tradable permits, voluntary agreements, subsidies.

Parallel sessions will also concern more general issues such as:

• Theories of Environmental Taxation,
• Re-structuring existing taxes in an environmentally friendly manner;
• Fiscal environmental instruments and local government financing;
• Environmental taxation and double dividend;
• Tradable permits and global warming issues;
• Environmental taxation and globalization;
• Environmental taxation and acceptability;
• Enviornamntal taxation and Voluntary Agreements.

Who should attend?

• academics from major universities worldwide in the fields of public econcomics, environmental economics, law, environmental studies, bussiness studies;
• tax and accounting professionals from leading accountancy and law firms;
• executives from industry;
• officials from governmental bodies throughout the world;
• leaders of non-profit organisations;
• leaders of lobbies interested in environmental matters (agricultures, consumers, motorists);
• students.