This paper examines the rationale for the different tax treatment of gasoline and diesel cars currently observed in Europe. First, we analyse possible justifications for a different tax treatment: pure tax revenue considerations, externality considerations and constraints on the tax instruments...

This report documents the JRC/IPTS modelling activities of the 2009 European Commission Communication "Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen", which establishes the EU's position in the Copenhagen negotiations. According to the POLES model, the estimated global direct...

The PESETA research project integrates a set of high-resolution climate change projections and physical models into an economic modelling framework to quantify the impacts of climate change on vulnerable aspects of Europe. Four market impact categories are considered (agriculture, river floods,...

Policies addressing air pollution from transport have in the past mainly focused on SO<SUB align="right">2</SUB>, NO<SUB align="right">x</SUB> and VOC through vehicle emission and fuel quality regulation. More recently however, CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emissions and particulates have come on the agenda because of global warming and the perception of the major role...</sub></sub></sub>

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