Challenges of urban areas for land use, CO2 emissions and climate resilience: the role and environmental reform of local taxes and charges

Pedro M. Herrera Molina, Álvaro del Blanco García, Belén García Carretero, Andrés García Martínez and Rafael Sanz Gómez

Chapter 7 in Biodiversity and Climate, 2024, pp 100-116 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Urban areas present specific challenges for land use, CO2 emissions, climate change and other environmental effects. Spanish local taxes provide tax incentives for local authorities to implement clean energy. This chapter proposes reforms to improve local environmental tax incentives. We also suggest a reform of the circulation tax to turn it into a proper environmental instrument and discuss how to introduce new local taxes related to carbon emissions of immovable property. Finally, the Spanish Act on Waste and Contaminated Soil (2021) gives local entities a three-year deadline to turn current waste charges into environmental instruments to grant a circular economy. This reform implies covering the total cost of the services and implementing pay-as-you-throw systems. We approach how to implement such reform.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035340521.00018 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23642_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().