Biodiversity and Climate

Editorial review board xi
Foreword xii
Frank J. Convery

PART I PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY: PRIORITIES AND TECHNIQUES
1 Biodiversity is the new climate 2
Aude Pommeret
2 Promoting tax systems that align governments and private actors with biodiversity objectives 18
Gabrielle Aubert
3 How should protected areas be taxed? A comparative analysis of tax regimes for natural protected areas in Europe 41
Louise Dupuis and Guillaume Sainteny

PART II AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND SOILS: EMISSIONS SOURCES AND SINKS
4 Reducing climate emissions from farms: New Zealand’s proposed farm levy and California policies compared 58
Roberta Mann and Walter Wang
5 Carbon sequestration in Austrian soils: environmental significance and economic effects of selected measures 74
Ina Meyer, Franz Sinabell, Gerhard Streicher, Andreas Bohner and Heide Spiegel
6 The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in the agricultural sector: what prospects? 88
Lorenzo del Federico and Silvia Giorgi

PART III CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES: LOCAL, NATIONAL AND MARITIME
7 Challenges of urban areas for land use, CO2 emissions and climate resilience: the role and environmental reform of local taxes and charges 100
Pedro M. Herrera Molina, Álvaro del Blanco García, Belén García Carretero, Andrés García Martínez and Rafael Sanz Gómez
8 Energy, greenhouse gas emissions and climate policies: Austria and Poland compared 117
Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig and Claudia Kettner
9 Urban solutions for tackling climate change with transport, environmental and economic tools: outline from Czechia and France 131
Radom’ra Jordov‡ and Hana Brůhov‡ Foltýnov‡
10 European tax strategies for shipping emissions reduction to protect human health and biodiversity 149
Rodolfo Salassa Boix

PART IV SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION: CASE STUDIES
11 Households’ vulnerability to carbon pricing: a case study for Austria 167
Julia Bock-Schappelwein and Claudia Kettner
12 Reforming the EU ETS: towards a more sustainable revenue recycling 181
Sven Rudolph, Joseph Dellatte, Elena Aydos, Takeshi Kawakatsu
13 Water taxation – from theory to practice: a case study of the Environmental Contribution Levy in Victoria, Australia 199
Elliot Legendre
14 Analysis of the distributional impact of measures to contain the 2022 energy crisis in Spain 216
Mikel González-Eguino, Xaquín García-Muros, María Moyano, Eva Alonso-Epelde, María Victoria Román, Manuel Tomás