Getting Energy Prices Right : : From Principle to Practice / / Ian Parry, Dirk Heine, Eliza Lis, Shanjun Li

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818051503321
• Autore: Parry Ian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-4983-6610-4; 1-4983-4310-4; 1-4983-0903-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.); XIII, 183 p
• Altri autori (Persone): HeineDirk; LiShanjun; LisEliza
• Disciplina: 333.79
• Soggetti: Power resources - Prices; Public Finance; Taxation; Environmental Economics; Environmental Conservation and Protection; Natural Resources; Environmental Economics: General; Business Taxes and Subsidies; Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies; Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General; National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General; Health: General; Public finance & taxation; Environmental economics; Excise taxes; Environmental management; Climate change; Health economics; Environment; Fuel tax; Non-renewable resources; Public expenditure review; Greenhouse gas emissions; Taxes; Health; Expenditure; Environmental sciences; Environmental impact charges; Motor fuels;Taxation; Natural resources; Expenditures, Public; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Summary for Policymakers; Figures; 1.1. Corrective Fuel Taxes to Reflect Environmental Costs, Selected Countries, 2010; 1.2. Impacts of Fuel Tax Reform, Selected Countries, 2010; 2 Energy Systems, Environmental Problems, and Current Fiscal Policy: A Quick Look; Overview of Energy Systems; 2.1. Primary Energy Consumption per Capita, Selected Countries, 2010; 2.2. Electricity Consumption per Capita, Selected Countries, 2010; 2.3. Motor Vehicle Ownership Rates, Selected Countries, 2010; Environmental Side Effects; 2.4. Share of Final Energy Use by Fuel Type, Selected Countries, 20102.5. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions per Capita, Selected Countries, 2010; 2.6. Urban Population, Selected Countries, 2010; Boxes; 2.1. Broader Environmental Effects beyond the Study Scope; 2.7. Projected Global Energy-Related CO2 Emissions; 2.8. Projected Long-Term Warming above Pre-Industrial Temperatures from Stabilization at Different Greenhouse Gas Concentrations; 2.9. Air Pollution Concentrations, Selected Countries, 2010; 2.10. Air Pollution Deaths by Region, 2010; 2.11. Vehicles and Road Capacity, Selected Countries, 2007 Fiscal Policies Currently Affecting Energy and Transportation; 2.12. Road Deaths, Selected Countries, 2010; 2.13. Revenue from Environment-Related Taxes as Percent of Total Revenue in OECD Countries, 2010; 2.14. Excise Tax Rates on Motor Fuels, 2010; 2.15. Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Energy by Region and Fuel Type, 2011; 3 Rationale for, and Design of, Fiscal Policy to "Get Energy Prices Right"; Policy Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection; 3.1. Environmental Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments: Further Examples; 3.1. Illustrated Sources of Fossil Fuel CO2 Reductions under Different Policies 3.2. Defining Economic Costs; 3.3.1. Shape of the Air Pollution Damage Function; 3.3. Shape of the Air Pollution Damage Function; 3.4. Coverage of Energy Products under the Value-Added Tax (VAT); 3.5. Environmental Tax Shifting in Practice; 3.2. Price Experience in the European Union Emissions Trading System; Further Design Issues; 3.6. Unintended Consequences and Market Price Distortions; 3.7. Examples of Distance-Based Charging for Vehicles; 3.8. Reconciling Fiscal and Environmental Objectives in Vehicle Taxation; 3.9. Pay-as-You-Drive Auto Insurance 3.10. The Energy Paradox ; Controversy; 3.3. Distributional Incidence of Energy Subsidies; Summary; 4 Measuring Pollution Damage from Fuel Use; CO2 Damage; Local Air Pollution Damage; 4.1. Intake Fractions: Some Technicalities; 4.1. Baseline Mortality Rates for Illnesses Whose Prevalence Is Aggravated by Pollution, Selected Regions, 2010; 4.2. The Human Capital Approach; 4.3. Determinants Other than Income of Mortality Risk Valuation; Tables; 4.1. Examples of Mortality Risk Valuations Used in Previous Government Studies; 4.2. Value of Mortality Risk, Selected Countries, 2010
• Sommario/riassunto: Energy taxes can produce substantial environmental and revenue benefits and are an important component of countries’ fiscal systems. Although the principle that these taxes should reflect global warming, air pollution, road congestion, and other adverse environmental impacts of energy use is well established, there has been little previous work providing guidance on how countries can put this principle into practice. This book develops a practical methodology, and associated tools, to show how the major environmental damages from energy can be quantified for different countries and used to design the efficient set of energy taxes.