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COMETR
is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)
supported by financing from the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme
for Research (FP6).
COMETR is coordinated by the Department
of Policy Analysis at the National
Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus
in Denmark and has 6 partners. COMETR runs from December 2004 through
to May 2007.
The
research is relevant for understanding the economic and environmental
implications of environmental tax reform, notably carbon-energy
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Carbon-energy
taxation contributed to economic growth read
more
Carbon-energy
taxes: energy-intensive industry faces a modest bill read
more
See
press
release on COMETR results
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Also
in 'Ingeniøren' [in Danish]
Grønne
afgifter får økonomien til at vokse
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Carbon-energy taxation is a policy instrument which will help reduce
the carbon emissions that cause global warming. In 1993, former
Commission President, Jacques Delors, proposed tax reform which
exchanged income taxes for environmental taxes, to exploit the double
dividend that can arise. While the first dividend, that of an improved
environment, would be of a more long-term nature, there would also
be a more immediate, second dividend consisting of increased employment
when income taxes are lowered. Harvard-economist Michael Porter
further argued that technological innovation and competitiveness
would be strengthened as a result of an incentive-based environmental
policy. Time is now ripe for an ex-post assessment of experiences
with such policies attained during the past decade.
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COMETR
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COMETR
partners at European Commission's Tax Forum in Brussels 19-20 March
2007
See
slides >>
Archived
news items >>
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- to
outline and clarify the competitiveness debate
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to review the experience in environmental tax reforms in EU member
states, with particular emphasis on carbon-energy taxation
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to analyse world-market conditions for a set of energy-intensive
sectors or subsectors, as a framework for considering competitiveness
effects
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to undertake bottom-up modelling of the effects of environmental
tax reforms on sector-specific energy usage and carbon emissions
in member states with carbon-energy taxes introduced on industry
(Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden and
UK)
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to undertake a macro-economic analysis of the competitiveness
effects of green tax reforms for individual member states as well
as for the EU as a whole on basis of the E3ME-model of Cambridge
Econometrics (link
to E3ME manual >>)
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to provide ex-post figures for environmental decoupling and assess
carbon leakage on basis of a comprehensive analysis, taking changes
in import-export ratios into account
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to review mitigation experiences and provide policy advice on
possible strategies to improve efficient mitigation measures
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New
book on environmental taxation by Danish political scientist
read more >>
Source: NASA
The
E3ME model
a short
description >>
The
E3ME Manual >>
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Environmental Research Institute, University of
Aarhus |
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Scientific
coordinator: Mikael
Skou Andersen, NERI, University of Aarhus
Adminstrative
coordinator: Carey
Smith, NERI,
University of Aarhus
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