RAMEA
RAMEA at the 10th GCET in Lisbon, Portugal
RAMEA project was presented at the 10th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, which was held on 23-25 September 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal
10/15/2009
The Tenth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation focussed on two topics, "Water Management and Climate Change". It took place in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisboa (Portugal). The conference is not intended to advance any particular environmental agenda on an advocacy basis but rather to advance knowledge, understanding and debate. It provided a forum for scholars from different fields, such as Law, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Natural Sciences, as well as representatives of national governments, the private sector and non-governmental organisations to exchange the latest research on the use of environmentally related taxes and other market-based instruments to advance environmental policy objectives
In "RAMEA, a shared environmental accounting tool to control and monitor regional environmental taxes" we have integrated RAMEA matrix with a new theme on environmental taxes, following Eurostat guidelines. We focused on the possibility of steering a sustainable economy, investigating the use of eco-taxes coordinated with RAMEA in order to improve the knowledge base to support policy makers. Following EU directions, environmental taxes have long been an instrument to boost the behaviour change of citizens by giving monetary values to negative externalities on the environment, like polluting. The main attempt has been to control and monitor eco-taxes and revenues by means of RAMEA, thinking also of new shapes of ecotaxes and paying attention to global economic crises.discusses the opportunities owed to RAMEA and to related economic and statistical tools in supporting regional sustainable development policies/strategies.
Conference Program (pdf, 79 kb)
Conference Proceedings (pdf, 1018 kb)
Printable version edited by: Arpa Emilia-Romagna - last update: 11/25/2009
