Program: “STUDIES ON LOCAL TAXATION IN ARGENTINA” (Res. 2483/2019-UNR)
Project: “ENVIRONMENTAL TAX REFORM IN THE PROVINCE OF SANTA FE WITH LOCAL REACH”
Brief overview
The project recognizes the leading and urgent role of government action in defense of the provincial social, environmental and economic framework and therefore proposes to evaluate the introduction of the extra-fiscal environmental perspective in the application of Santa Fe public policies, as a means of integrating environmental objectives with economic and social objectives, in order to encourage the development of sustainable behaviors compatible with caring for the environment and thus mitigate the effects that climate change generates on communities and economic activity, in line with the 2030 Agenda, the United Nations Global Compact, among other international agreements.
“Financing is at the heart of everything the world is doing to combat climate change. Mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, climate technology – all of these require sufficient funding to function properly and deliver the desired results,” UN experts repeatedly argue.
The choice of environmental financing instruments is not a minor issue; it is neither innocuous nor neutral; and it must always be considered that they must be at the service of a consensual political will and strategy. This initiative must be evaluated from both production and consumption based on the cost option; so that a change in the behavior of the economic agent is verified that makes the continuation of its negative activity uneconomical for its own economic convenience and induces it to go in another direction or is an incentive for deterrence.
The debate revolves around the need for the market to make decisions knowing what their true costs are. Within the wide range of instruments available, the taxation, in combination with economic and administrative instruments, voluntary agreements, among others, may collaborate in achieving the objectives pursued.
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Director: Dr. Claudia C. Ameriso
Members:
- CP Elida Benitez
- Economist Maria Laura Bevilacqua
- Lucia Degiovanni