Share of environmental taxes in Romania among highest in EU
Governmental revenues from environmental taxes in member states of the EU reached a total of EUR 364.4 billion in 2016, compared to EUR 296.5 billion in 2006. In this period, the share of...
Art meets science in exploration of environmental research
The worlds of art and science will collide at a Brisbane exhibition, with dancers, poets, musicians and animators set to interpret environmental research for an exhibition. As part of a six-month...
Minnesota Republicans no-show for environmental debate. All of them.
A dozen of Minnesota’s candidates for governor were invited to present their plans to address the state’s pressing environmental issues at last week’s “Our New Environment” Minnesota Governors...
A Peek at Norway’s Environmental Hypocrisy
Norway’s coalition government handed down a four year reprieve on oil drilling in the Lofoten Islands, but hedged that with defeat by awarding a record 74 oil drilling leases – nearly all of them in...
Environmental Peacebuilding Researchers Receive Prestigious Al-Moumin Award
Washington, D.C. – Shared environmental interests and cooperative action can be used to build trust, establish shared identities, and transform conflict into peace. Fifteen years ago, Ken Conca,...
France to implement a new environmental tax?
The Amorce association, an association of local authorities and businesses in the fields of waste, energy and heating networks, reveals the tax measures which will be included in the French national...
Away from the public gaze, serious threats to the environment keep rising
Threats to the Australian environment get reported in bursts – a contested development decision or a particular conservation campaign can thrust an issue into the headlines and on to the nightly...
Environment officials target special economic zones
An environment-monitoring working group from the Environment Ministry and the Council for the Development of Cambodia plans to meet with the owners of nearly 50 special economic zones across the...
