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Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, 23-25 September 2009
The Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation is part of an annual series of international conferences focusing on issues involved in designing and implementing environmentally related taxes. The conferences are not intended to advance any particular environmental agenda on an advocacy basis but rather to advance knowledge, understanding and debate.
The tenth edition of the Conference will take place in Lisboa (Portugal) between the 23rd and 25th of September 2009 and shall focus on ‘Water Management and Climate Change’. Within this thematic framework, the conference will focus inter alia on the following areas: Water, Energy, International Transports, Policies & Instruments’ Coordination, International Environmental Justice, Competitiveness Issues, Capacity Building Issues and Governance Issues.
Parallel to these sessions there will be some specific workshops and streams, namely on the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy, a growing field of legal research where the formal and procedural aspects of environmental policy are subject to a cost-benefit analysis that informs policymakers and the public in general with respect to the actual consequences of environmental law.
Call for Papers
The conference will cover a broad spectrum of environmental tax policy issues with regard to water management and climate change law and foster cross-disciplinary links among economics, law and political science. Each topic includes a keynote plenary session and several parallel panels. Contributions from the following fields are especially welcome:
Water management policies and institutional frameworks
Tax instruments for climate change prevention and mitigation
Coordination of environmental taxes with other environmental economic instruments
Benchmarking of energy tax systems
International competitiveness in the presence of climate policies with tax instruments
New tax-related financial mechanisms for climate and coastal protection in developing countries and small island states
Abstract submission process & guidelines
All submissions must include: authors' full name, affiliation and contact details, paper title, an uploaded electronic version of the paper's abstract in English, prepared as a Microsoft Word document, and at least one author's short biography.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically on http://GCET2009.com and respect the following format:
Title (font Times New Roman pt. 14, Bold, align centre)
First Author (font Times New Roman pt. 12, Bold, align left), co-authors (font Times New Roman pt. 12, Italic); initials and surname in that order; multiple authors must be separated by a comma
First Author's contact information
Body of the text: max 500 words (Times New Roman, pt. 12, align left)
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: 1st March 2009
Notification of accepted abstracts: 15th April 2009
Submission of full papers and registration: 1st July 2009
Submission of the final paper post-conference: 15th October 2009
A selection of final (non-published) papers (max. 25 pages) will be published in "Critical Issues of Environmental Taxation", Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Conference website: http://GCET2009.com/
Contact for further information: Claudia Dias Soares (casoares@porto.ucp.pt)