Paul Ekins holds a PhD in economics from the University of London and is Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre. He has extensive experience consulting for business, government, and international organisations. In 1994 he received a Global 500 Award 'for outstanding environmental achievement' from the United Nations Environment Programme. His academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, and he is an authority on a number of areas of energy-environment-economy interaction and environmental policy. He is the author of numerous papers, book chapters, and articles in a wide range of journals, and has written or edited ten books. Stefan Speck holds a PhD in economics. He has worked as Senior Consultant at Kommunalkredit Public Consulting in Vienna, as a senior project scientist at the National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, and as a project manager at the Regional Environmental Center in Budapest. His research focuses on the application of market based instruments for environmental policy, environmental fiscal reform, and environmental financing. He has implemented projects for a range of clients including the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), European Commission (DG Environment), European Environment Agency (EEA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and the Department for International Development (DFID), England. He has carried out research projects in Africa and Asia, and has published widely on economic instruments and environmental financing.
* The Need and Rationale for Environmental Tax Reform
* 1: Paul Ekins: Introduction to the Issues and the Book
* 2: Stefan Giljum, Christian Lutz, Ariane Jungnitz, Martin Bruckner,
Friedrich Hinterberger: European Resource Use and Resource
Productivity in a Global Context
* 3: Paolo Agnolucci: Energy Consumption and CO² Emissions in the
German and British Industrial Sectors
* 4: Paolo Agnolucci: Is Environmental Tax Reform an Appropriate Policy
for Industrial Sectors with Different Energy Intensities? An Analysis
of UK Sub-Sectors
* Experiences in Environmental Tax Reform
* 5: Stefan Speck, Philip Summerton, Daniel Lee, Kirsten Wiebe:
Environmental Taxes and ETRs in Europe: The Current Situation and a
Review of the Modelling Literature
* 6: Petr Sauer, Ondrej Vojácek, Jaroslav Klusák, Jarmila
Zimmermannová: Introducing Environmental Tax Reform: the Case of the
Czech Republic
* 7: Paolo Agnolucci: The Effect of the German and UK Environmental Tax
Reforms on the Demand for Labour and Energy
* A European ETR for Growth and Sustainability
* 8: Terry Barker, Christian Lutz, Bernd Meyer, and Hector Pollitt:
Models for Projecting an ETR
* 9: Terry Barker, Christian Lutz, Bernd Meyer, Hector Pollitt, and
Stefan Speck: Modelling an ETR for Europe
* 10: Daniel Blobel, Holger Gerdes, Hector Pollitt, Jennifer Barton,
Thomas Drosdowski, Christian Lutz, Marc Ingo Wolter and Paul Ekins:
Implications of ETR in Europe for Household Distribution
* 11: Stefan Giljum, Christian Lutz, Christine Polzin: Global Economic
and Environmental Impacts of an ETR in Europe
* 12: Martin Jänicke and Roland Zieschank: ETR and the Environment
Industry
* Conclusions
* 13: Paul Ekins and Stefan Speck: ETR for Green Growth: Summary,
Conclusions and Recommendations
