tax revenue Archives - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

Significant ‘green revenues’ could help fund public spending and pay off national debts

Press release on 9 November, 2015

Public policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could help improve the taxation system and reduce government debt, according to a... Read more

A macroeconomic perspective on climate change mitigation: Meeting the financing challenge

Research article

by Alex Bowen and Emanuele Campiglio

on 18 March, 2014

Building on simulations using Integrated Assessment Models and historical evidence, this paper explores some of the issues posed by this dual financing challenge. We discuss the "fiscal self-reliance" of the energy sector, finding that carbon pricing would generate sufficient fiscal revenues within each region to finance total investment in energy supply. Read more

A macroeconomic perspective on climate change mitigation: Meeting the financing challenge

Working paper

by Alex Bowen and Emanuele Campiglio

on 1 August, 2013

Working Paper 122 – Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics (August 2014) (read article) Abstract Transitioning to a low-carbon economy will... Read more

The economics of the CDM levy: revenue potential, tax incidence and distortionary effects

Research article

by Sam Fankhauser

on 18 January, 2010

Abstract A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism and other carbon trading schemes is a potential source of finance for... Read more

The economics of the CDM levy: Revenue potential, tax incidence and distortionary effects

Working paper

by Sam Fankhauser

on 1 May, 2009

Working Paper 1 Abstract A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other carbon trading schemes is a potential... Read more