Tax law and the environment: a multidisciplinary and worldwide perspective

This title explores how tax policy can solve environmental problems, using a multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary approach.

Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or to provide preferred tax treatment to more sustainable alternatives to those harmful activities.

The book provides a detailed analysis of environmental taxation, with examples from around the world.

As energy use is a major cause of environmental harm, the book explores the taxation of both fossil and renewable energy.

Its analysis of the past, the present, and the future potential of environmental taxation will help policy-makers move economies towards sustainability, as well as informing students, academics, and citizens about tax solutions for pressing environmental issues.