Download or read book Instrumentos econ micos de pol tica ambiental especialmente de los tributos medioambientales written by Mauricio Alejandro Osorio Matamala and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pol tica fiscal y medio ambiente written by Jean Acquatella and published by UN. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde la década de 1990, los países de la región han logrado avanzar en la consolidación de mecanismos destinados a asegurar una mejor integración y coordinación de sus políticas monetarias y fiscales. Sin embargo, fuera de ese ámbito, es evidente que persiste una brecha entre aspiraciones y logros en lo que respecta a otras dimensiones y metas del desarrollo sostenible. La publicación de este volumen se inscribe dentro el esfuerzo de la CEPAL de contribuir al establecimiento de espacios para el diálogo sustantivo entre autoridades ambientales y fiscales de América Latina y el Caribe, con el objeto de identificar oportunidades de sinergia y mejorar la integración y la coordinación entre ambas políticas.
Download or read book Instrumentos Econ micos y Financieros para la Gesti n Ambiental written by María del Pilar García Pachón and published by Universidad Externado. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El desarrollo y la puesta en marcha de las políticas ambientales, así como de las competencias que corresponden a las autoridades ambientales por mandato legal, requiere la asignación de fondos suficientes que permitan gestionar de manera eficiente el uso, aprovechamiento, conservación y protección de los recursos naturales del país. De igual manera, el avance de la economía y de los sectores productivos depende no solo del máximo aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales sino también de la garantía de su restitución y sustitución, y del respeto por la capacidad de resiliencia de los elementos de la naturaleza l. Igualmente, la generación de valor por la empresa se ve reflejada no solo en los balances financieros sino también en su capacidad de hacerlo a través de prácticas ambientalmente sostenibles". En un momento como el actual, en el que las presiones económicas son generadas por variados factores y cuando la comunidad internacional ha reconocido a la economía verde como un instrumento para alcanzar el desarrollo sostenible (ONU, 2012), es necesario analizar la forma de mejorar el bienestar humano, fomentar la igualdad social y reducir los riegos ambientales mediante el uso eficiente de los recursos. En razón a la importancia del tema, el Grupo de Investigación en Derecho del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Externado de Colombia decidió desarrollar el Proyecto "Instrumentos económicos y financieros para la gestión ambiental", a fin de estudiar la mejor forma de suscitar la asignación y el uso eficiente de los recursos naturales, buscando que sea el mercado el que promueva cambios en el comportamiento de los agentes, ya sea por medio de ventajas, ayudas o incentivos, para favorecer comportamientos favorables o por medio de obstáculos o cargas que desincentiven comportamientos ambientalmente no deseables. De otro lado, se analiza la forma como los instrumentos financieros permiten recaudar recursos para financiar actividades operativas y de inversión propias de la gestión ambiental, incluyendo aquellos calificados como fiscales o tributarios. El estudio se estructuró en tres partes: en la primera se analizan los instrumentos económicos y financieros en el derecho extranjero; en la segunda se examinan algunas de las ren tas de las Corporaciones Au tónomas Regionales -CAR- identificadas en la Ley 99 de 1993, y la tercera se destina al estudio de otros instrumentos útiles para el desarrollo de una economía verde.
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Download or read book Medio ambiente comunitario y Protocolo de Kioto la armonizaci n de la imposici n energ tica o un mercado sobre emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero written by José Francisco López Gordo and published by LA LEY. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. MEDIO AMBIENTE EN EL QUE SE DESARROLLA LA INVESTIGACIÓN II. ALCANCE Y OBJETIVOS DEL ESTUDIO CAPÍTULO PRIMERO.--UNA PERSPECTIVA DE LA MATERIA AMBIENTAL: ENFOQUES Y ELEMENTOS SUSTANTIVOS EN TORNO A I. MEDIO AMBIENTE: PRIMEROS CONCEPTOS A) El bien jurídico ambiental B) El medio ambiente en el art. 45 de la CE II. APROXIMACIÓN A LA CUESTIÓN AMBIENTAL DESDE LA CIENCIA ECONÓMICA A) La evolución del pensamiento económico B) El asunto de las externalidades C) Soluciones al problema de las externalidades: los planteamientos de PIGOU y COASE III. ALGUNAS CUESTIONES DE INTERÉS EN TORNO AL PRINCIPIO QUIEN CONTAMINA PAGA A) Contenidos jurídico-económicos: las luces y las sombras de su conocimiento positivo B) Aplicación del principio quien contamina paga en el arbitrio europeo CAPÍTULO SEGUNDO.--INSTRUMENTOS DE POLÍTICA AMBIENTAL I. REFERENCIAS A SU SISTEMATIZACIÓN II. EVALUACIÓN DE LOS INSTRUMENTOS AMBIENTALES: LAS VENTAJAS Y LOS INCONVENIENTES A) El Derecho penal como instrumento medioambiental en la Unión Europea B) Regulación directa: medidas represivas y medidas preventivas C) Instrumentos reguladores que aprovechan el mercado versus el mercado como instrumento de política medioambiental D) Información ambiental E) Sistemas complejos de instrumentos ambientales: ensayos para un modelo de desarrollo sostenible III. EVOLUCIÓN Y CONCRECIÓN DE UN MODELO DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE: LA URGENTE ACTUALIDAD DE LAS GENERACIONES FUTURAS A) Causa y efecto: o la paradoja del huevo o la gallina B) Impulso jurídico al modelo de desarrollo sostenible C) Evolución de los instrumentos medioambientales CAPÍTULO TERCERO.--EL TRIBUTO COMO INSTRUMENTO DE PROTECCIÓN MEDIOAMBIENTAL I. ¿QUÉ SON LOS TRIBUTOS AMBIENTALES? A) Concepto de tributo ambiental B) Clasificación del instrumento medioambiental tributario C) Apuntes sobre la fiscalidad medioambiental comunitaria D) Incentivos económico-financieros E) Tesis de partida para la aplicación de la tributación ambiental II. CUESTIONES BÁSICAS EN TORNO AL DISEÑO DEL TRIBUTO AMBIENTAL A) Notas a la conexión entre el art. 31 de la CE y el medio ambiente B) El principio quien contamina paga y los beneficios fiscales C) La imposición directa de naturaleza ambiental. Un caso decontaminación atmosférica previamente intervenido por un mercado de derechos de emisión III. UNA REFORMA FISCAL ECOLÓGICA PARA EL EFECTO INVERNADERO A) La teoría del doble dividendo B) Los problemas de una reforma fiscal ecológica. Referencias a un problema ambiental global CAPÍTULO CUARTO.--EL BIEN AMBIENTAL EN LA POLÍTICA COMUNITARIA I. PANORAMA HISTÓRICO A) La naturaleza jurídica de la Comunidad B) Inicio de la acción comunitaria ambiental C) La problemática del marco jurídico inicial D) La acción ambiental de la Comunidad en el Acta Única Europea E) La política ambiental comunitaria en el Tratado de la Unión Europea II. EL TRATADO DE ÁMSTERDAM, DE 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 1997 III. EL SEXTO PROGRAMA DE ACCIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD EUROPEA EN MATERIA DE MEDIO AMBIENTE A) Estrategias prioritarias para cumplir los objetivos medioambientales B) Áreas de actuación prioritarias C) La ampliación y la dimensión internacional CAPÍTULO QUINTO.--LAS INICIATIVAS ECOLÓGICAS DE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA PARA EL CO2 Y LA ENERGÍA I. LOS ACUERDOS INTERNACIONALES EN MATERIA DE CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO A) Cuestiones preliminares B) La Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) C) El Protocolo de Kioto D) Los Mecanismos de Flexibilidad contemplados por Kioto II. LA FISCALIDAD ECOLÓGICA DE LA COMUNIDAD PARA EL CO2 Y LA ENERGÍA A) Un impuesto comunitario sobre las emisiones de CO2 y la energía B) Propuesta de Directiva sobre el CO2 y la energía de 1992 C) Propuesta de Directiva de 1995: las cuestiones a debate D) Corolario: los puntos de conflictos III. LA ARMONIZACIÓN DE LA IMPOSICIÓN ENERGÉTICA DE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA: UNA PERSPECTIVA MEDIOAMBIENTAL A) La imposición sobre consumos específicos en la Unión Europea: energía y medio ambiente B) Actualización de las imposiciones sobre consumos energéticos IV. EL PROGRAMA EUROPEO PARA EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO A) La propuesta de un régimen comunitario de derechos de emisión B) El Mercado Europeo de Derechos de Emisión (MEDE) C) Vinculación de proyectos MDL y MAC al MEDE D) Actuaciones emprendidas por España DOCUMENTACIÓN MANEJADA BIBLIOGRAFÍA LEGISLACIÓN Y DOCUMENTOS COMUNITARIOS.
Download or read book The North American Mosaic written by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Download or read book Carbon Energy Taxation written by Mikael Skou Andersen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and the UK followed suit with tax reforms that shifted taxation from labour to carbon and energy. Over the years, CO2 and energy taxes have gradually been raised, so that in Europe taxes of more than 25 billion Euros a year have been shifted. This book examines carbon-energy taxation in detail and looks at tax shifting programmes for lowering other taxes. It offers extensive analysis on the basis of historical data and seeks to answer important questions for policy-making, such as: What was the impact of tax shifting for economic performance and competitiveness? By how much were emissions of CO2 reduced? Could energy-intensive industries cut further down on their fuel demand or did they loose market shares? To what extent was there 'leakage' from Europe, so that production and CO2 emissions were shifted to other countries or regions without CO2-abatement policy? The use of unique and original data, including sector-specific energy prices and taxes, as well as the use of advanced statistical techniques, such as co-integration analysis and panel-regression techniques along with the time-series estimated macro-economic model E3ME, make this a truly comprehensive volume. On the basis of the lessons learned in Europe, this volume indicates how carbon-energy taxation could usefully be combined with emissions trading, and discusses implications for future international climate policy, including how the IPCC recommendations for a gradual escalation in carbon price could be accomplished while preventing carbon leakage.
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Download or read book Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation written by Barbara J. Lausche and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2011 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of this publication is to consider the key elements of a modern, comprehensive, and effective legal framework for successful management of protected areas. They provide practical guidance for all those involved in developing, improving, or reviewing national legislation on protected areas, be they legal drafters and practitioners, protected area managers, interested NGOs, or scholars. These guidelines include fifteen case studies, eight dealing with the protected area legislation of individual countries and six cases dealing with specific sites providing fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.
Download or read book The Green Web written by Martin Holdgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Circular Economy and the Global South written by Patrick Schröder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts. This book examines the relevance of the circular economy in the context of developing countries, something which to date is little understood. This volume highlights examples of circular economy practices in developing country contexts in relation to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), informal sector recycling and national policy approaches. It examines a broad range of case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand, and illustrates how the circular economy can be used as a new lens and possible solution to cross-cutting development issues of pollution and waste, employment, health, urbanisation and green industrialisation. In addition to more technical and policy oriented contributions, the book also critically discusses existing narratives and pathways of the circular economy in the global North and South, and how these differ or possibly even conflict with each other. Finally, the book critically examines under what conditions the circular economy will be able to reduce global inequalities and promote human development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Presenting a unique social sciences perspective on the circular economy discourse, this book is relevant to students and scholars studying sustainability in economics, business studies, environmental politics and development studies.
Download or read book Benchmarking Water Services written by Enrique Cabrera Jr and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benchmarking has become a key tool in the water industry to promote and achieve performance targets for utilities. The use of this tool for performance improvement through systematic search and adaptation of leading practices, has expanded globally during the past decade. Many ongoing projects worldwide aim to address different needs and objectives, in varying contexts, with outstanding results and impact. Benchmarking Water Services provides valuable information to everyone interested in benchmarking in the water industry. The text is aimed at utilities considering joining a benchmarking project, experienced practitioners in charge of organizing a benchmarking exercise, consultants, regulators and researchers. The document is presented with a clear practice oriented approach and can be used as a how-to-benchmark guide presented from different perspectives (participants, organizers, supervising bodies). Readers will gain practical insight on real life benchmarking practices and will benefit from the experiences gained in some of the leading benchmarking projects of the water industry (including the IWA-WSAA benchmarking efforts, the European Benchmarking Co-operation and the several benchmarking projects carried out in Austria and Central Europe). The manual also presents the new IWA Benchmarking Framework, which aims to harmonize the terms used to describe benchmarking and performance indicators practices in the water industry, guaranteeing a more fluent and efficient communication. This Manual of Best Practice is edited by the IWA Specialist Group on Benchmarking and Performance Assessment, and co-published by AWWA and IWA Publishing. Praise for Benchmarking Water Services: "The continual trend of conceptual to specifics throughout the book provides for an educational experience each time the book is either casually perused or carefully studied." "The authors (Cabrera, Haskins and Fritiz) diligently pursue the focus of improvement." "Benchmarking Water Services is an in depth and practical ‘must have’ guide for any utility currently engaged in or planning to develop a benchmarking process" - Gregory M. Baird (2012) Benchmarking: An International Journal 19:2. More information about the book can be found on the Water Wiki in an article written by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/TheNewIWABenchmarkingFramework A Spanish language version of this book is available as a free eBook: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/eBookTitlesfromIWAPublishingFreetoDownload-Volume2#HBenchmarkingParaServiciosdeAgua
Download or read book Tax Challenges Arising from Digitalisation Interim Report 2018 written by Collectif and published by OECD. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interim report of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS is a follow-up to the work delivered in 2015 under Action 1 of the BEPS Project on addressing the tax challenges of the digital economy. It sets out the Inclusive Framework’s agreed direction of work on digitalisation and the international tax rules through to 2020. It describes how digitalisation is also affecting other areas of the tax system, providing tax authorities with new tools that are translating into improvements in taxpayer services, improving the efficiency of tax collection and detecting tax evasion.
Download or read book Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low carbon Economy written by Zach Willey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming, credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will increasingly become a commodity that is bought and sold on the open market. Farmers and other landowners can benefit from this new economy by conducting land management practices that help sequester carbon dioxide, creating credits they can sell to industry to "offset" industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. This guide is the first comprehensive technical publication providing direction to landowners for sequestering carbon and information for traders and others who will need to verify the sequestration. It will provide invaluable direction to farmers, foresters, land managers, consultants, brokers, investors, regulators, and others interested in creating consistent, credible greenhouse gas offsets as a tradable commodity in the United States. The guide contains a non-technical section detailing methodologies for scoping of the costs and benefits of a proposed project, quantifying offsets of various sorts under a range of situations and conditions, and verifying and registering the offsets. The technical section provides specific information for quantifying, verifying, and regulating offsets from agricultural and forestry practices. Visit the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions website for audio from the press conference announcing the book. Read the press release announcing the book.
Download or read book How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.
