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The University of Naples Federico II invites young researchers, Postdoc or Ph.D. candidates to submit presentation proposals to be exhibited within the framework of the Summer School in European Environmental Taxation on the 12th of July 2023. The Summer School is a free course organised with the support of the European Union in the framework of the Jean Monnet Action (Jean Monnet Module Ref. 611159-EPP-1-2019- 1-IT-EPPJMO-MODULE). It will be held in Naples, at the Law Department of the University of Naples Federico II, from 10 to 15 July 2023 with the aim to provide participants with suitable expertise on environmental taxation and policies.On the 12th of July 2023 participants of SUSEET and selected candidates will have the opportunity to discuss their researches or papers in environment...

The third edition of the Summer School in European Environmental Taxation will be held from 10 to 15 July 2023 at the Law Department of the University of Naples Federico II. If you are interested send your CV and a motivation letter to suseetunina@gmail.com by 31st May 2023. SUSEET commette will select candidates and confirme acceptance by 15th June 2023.

The 23rd Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will be held in Parma 21-24 September 2022. You are invited to attend in person or, under this year’s hybrid approach. The conference theme, The Green Growth Challenge, offers participants the opportunity to explore the role of taxation and other market-based instruments in achieving the transition to greener economies and safer environments around the world.

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Environmental policy applies different approaches in order to protect the environment and to foster a sustainable transition and the economic one is more and more significance. Among different economic instruments environmental taxation can play a crucial role, because of its regulatory dimension that is able to influence people’s behavior. On the one hand environmental taxes have many important advantages, such as economic efficiency, the ability to raise public revenue that can be reused, transparency but on the other hand they can be regressive and contrary to the principle of the ability to pay. Its potential is not new, Jacques Delors, the President of the European Commission, proposed the introduction of a European carbon tax in 1992, recycling the revenue to stimulate the economy by...