RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE BEFORE AND AFTER THE KYOTO PROTOCOL: A SURVEY

Margherita Cagiano de Azevedo
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Margherita Cagiano de Azevedo: ISAE - Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses

No 25, ISAE Working Papers from ISTAT - Italian National Institute of Statistics - (Rome, ITALY)

Abstract: The paper presents a short excursus of the debate on the environment protection which, over the last thirty years, through a bumpy road has led to the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997. Along with the cornerstones of the long and lively debate, the paper tries to resume the similar continuous progresses which have been realised both on the focus and the use of the devices to pursue the protection of environment. If in the early Seventies policy-makers were mainly oriented in cleaning up existing pollution, the continuing improvement in awareness has gradually induced a pollution prevention and integration of the environmental concerns with the economic ones. A clear test of this last point may be detected in the actual behaviour of policy-makers in almost all OECD countries which tend to use more and more environmental related taxes (eco-taxes) and to bring environmental charges under the fiscal framework (“green tax reform”).

Keywords: Environment; Kyoto Protocol; eco-taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2002-02
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