While its importance in domestic law has long been acknowledged, transparency has remained largely unexplored in international law. This chapter is included in a deeper study of transparency issues in the key areas such as international economic law, environmental law, human rights law and...

In recent decades environmental protection and more generally global warming have attracted great political concern. In this respect taxes can be some valid governmental tools to pursue specific environmental purposes, as well as to create incentives to change unsustainable patterns of...