The Relationship Between the Environmental Tax Revenues and the Greenhouse Gas Emission in Romania

Liviu Andrei Toader (), Florentina Chitu () and Dorel Mihai Paraschiv ()
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Liviu Andrei Toader: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, International Business and Economics Doctoral School, Romania
Florentina Chitu: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, International Business and Economics Doctoral School, Romania
Dorel Mihai Paraschiv: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, The Faculty of International Business and Economics, Romania

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2023, vol. XXIII, issue 1, 1103-1111

Abstract: In order to meet the Paris Agreement target, mankind must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to unprecedented levels by 2030. Major global shifts towards a low-carbon economy and transformations of financial systems in each country are expected, changing new financial structures and processes, involving national governments, central and commercial banks, investors and financial actors. Romania has among the lowest environmental tax revenues as a percentage of GDP, according to Eurostat, and energy taxes are the most important category of environmental taxes, followed by transport taxes, pollution and resource exploitation taxes, etc. In this paper we aim to see the relationship between environmental tax revenues and greenhouse gas emissions in Romania, using correlation and regression analysis. The results of the study validate the main hypothesis, that is a strong inverse significant relationship between the two variables analysed and serve as a basis for further research on environmental taxes and charges in a given country (their amount and percentage of the country's GDP) and the evolution of greenhouse gas emissions (progress towards their reduction).

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; revenues; taxes; Romania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 F64 H23 P28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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