Balance Sheet
BALANCE SHEET
The German Ecotax
GBG's 2004 Memorandum contains a detailed breakdown of all the positive effects of the Ecotax on the environment, labour, and innovation. For more information please click here.
The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety have produced the following analysis of the Ecotax in English, including a detailed list of its positive steering and environmental effects. The analysis is available here.
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the Ecologic environmental consultancy have produced a report analysing the positive effects of the Ecotax in Germany. The report is available here.
For more information on the positive effects of the Ecotax in Germany, please see our German language website here.
Positive Effects of Environmental Fiscal Reform
Impacts of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change, Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts, OECD.
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The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes, OECD 2006. Contains an analysis of the effects and benefits of EFR and can be purchased online from GBG here.
The COMETR project was set up to investigate economic and environmental implications of environmental tax reform on competitiveness. For more information and to see the research project results, please click here.
