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Resource Intelligent Europe MEP/MP network
‘we need nothing less than a paradigm shift’
The Club of Rome Global Assembly
‘increase taxes on the use of resources and lower taxes on labour’
The World Resources Forum
‘Adjusting the fiscal framework is the most fundamental and urgent pre-requisite for approaching a sustainable future’
De Groene Zaak, a Dutch collective of businesses
‘[belastingverschuiving] zal leiden tot verhoging van de arbeidsparticipatie … én stimulering van de eco-efficiëntie’
Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme
‘a great example of a necessary fundamental change’
Eckart Wintzen
for ‘growth that ensures freedom of entrepreneurship without depleting the planet’s resources’
Herman E. Daly
‘tax bads, not goods’
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Professor of Economics at Tufts University
green tax shifts provide flexibility to achieve difficult political and economic goals while contributing to a cleaner environment
European Environment Agency
‘replace distortionary taxes on ‘goods’ such as labour with taxes on economic ‘bads’ such as inefficient resource use’
More on Scarcity
- (EU) European Commission, Critical raw materials for the EU
- (SERI) Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Overconsumption? Our Use of the World’s Natural Resources
- (Fraunhofer Institute) Angerer, Raw materials for emerging technologies
- (TNO) Diederen, Metal minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements of hope
- (UN) United Nations University, StEP Initiative, Annual Report 2008
- more...
More on Taxes
- Bleischwitz et al., International Economics of Resource Efficiency
- Commission of the European Communities, Green Paper
- Council of the European Union, Sustainable materials management
- Wintzen, Re-engineering the Planet: Three Steps to a Sustainable Free Market Economy
- Ekins, Resource Productivity, Environmental Tax Reform and Sustainable Growth
- UK Green Fiscal Commission, The Case for Green Fiscal Reform
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