Biodiversity and Climate

Edited by Édouard Civel, Researcher, Square Research Center and Climate Economics Chair, Christian de Perthuis, Professor, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France, Janet E. Milne, Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, US, Mikael Skou Andersen, Professor of Environmental Policy Analysis, Aarhus University, Denmark and Hope Ashiabor, Dr., University of New South Wales Business School, Australia

Contents
Editorial review board xi
Foreword xii
Frank J. Convery
PART I PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY: PRIORITIES
AND TECHNIQUES
1 Biodiversity is the new climate 2
Aude Pommeret
2 Promoting tax systems that align governments and private
actors with biodiversity objectives 18
Gabrielle Aubert
3 How should protected areas be taxed? A comparative
analysis of tax regimes for natural protected areas in Europe 41
Louise Dupuis and Guillaume Sainteny
PART II AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND SOILS:
EMISSIONS SOURCES AND SINKS
4 Reducing climate emissions from farms: New Zealand’s
proposed farm levy and California policies compared 58
Roberta Mann and Walter Wang
5 Carbon sequestration in Austrian soils: environmental
significance and economic effects of selected measures 74
Ina Meyer, Franz Sinabell, Gerhard Streicher, Andreas
Bohner and Heide Spiegel
6 The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in the
agricultural sector: what prospects? 88
Lorenzo del Federico and Silvia Giorgi
PART III CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES: LOCAL,
NATIONAL AND MARITIME
7 Challenges of urban areas for land use, CO2 emissions and
climate resilience: the role and environmental reform of
local taxes and charges 100
Pedro M. Herrera Molina, Álvaro del Blanco García,
Belén García Carretero, Andrés García Martínez and
Rafael Sanz Gómez
8 Energy, greenhouse gas emissions and climate policies:
Austria and Poland compared 117
Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig and Claudia Kettner
9 Urban solutions for tackling climate change with
transport, environmental and economic tools: outline from
Czechia and France 131
Radom’ra Jordov‡ and Hana Brůhov‡ Foltýnov‡
10 European tax strategies for shipping emissions reduction
to protect human health and biodiversity 149
Rodolfo Salassa Boix
PART IV SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION: CASE STUDIES
11 Households’ vulnerability to carbon pricing: a case study
for Austria 167
Julia Bock-Schappelwein and Claudia Kettner
12 Reforming the EU ETS: towards a more sustainable
revenue recycling 181
Sven Rudolph, Joseph Dellatte, Elena Aydos, Takeshi Kawakatsu
13 Water taxation – from theory to practice: a case study of
the Environmental Contribution Levy in Victoria, Australia 199
Elliot Legendre
14 Analysis of the distributional impact of measures to
contain the 2022 energy crisis in Spain 216
Mikel González-Eguino, Xaquín García-Muros, María
Moyano, Eva Alonso-Epelde, María Victoria Román,
Manuel Tomás