Climate change is one of the biggest economic challenges of our time. Given the scale of the problem, the question of whether a carbon tax should be introduced is hotly debated in policy circles. This paper studies the optimal design of a carbon tax when environmental factors, such as air carbon...
The European Union is the world’s largest importer of virtual CO2-emissions: its net imports of goods and services contain more than 700 million tons of CO2 emitted outside of the EU’s territory. This is more than 20 % of the EU’s own territorial CO2 emissions. Therefore, shifting carbon pricing...
Through a series of case studies this study provides an overview of measures implemented by states and firms that may harm competition and consumer choice. It explores the extent to which EU Law may apply to prevent such restrictive practices. This document was prepared by Policy Department A at...
This updated Handbook on external costs of transport has been developed in the study ‘Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Charging and Internalisation of Transport Externalities’ commissioned by the European Commission DG MOVE, by a consortium led by CE Delft. The objective of this study is to ...
This report summarises the findings of a project, awarded to Tractebel-Engie, to analyse the possibility and the effects of implementing nodal pricing in the European Internal electricity market based on the current and proposed legal framework. The report presents the origins and organisation o...
This study is developed within the project ‘Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Charging and Internalisation of Transport Externalities’. The overall aim of this project is to assess the state-of-play of internalisation of external and infrastructure costs of transport in the EU Member States a...
The project ‘Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Charging and Internalisation of Transport Externalities’ aims to assess the extent to which existing policies internalise the external and infrastructure costs of transport and to discuss ways by which further internalisation could be achieved. A...
