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Can economic instruments promote a circular economy?

By: Eriksson, Flintull Annica,Karlsson, Annacarin,Rouhento, Viivi,Sepponen, Susanna,Purho, Heini,Hennlock, Magnus

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Can economic instruments promote a circular economy?

By: Eriksson, Flintull Annica,Karlsson, Annacarin,Rouhento, Viivi,Sepponen, Susanna,Purho, Heini,Hennlock, Magnus

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2024-505/ The report analyses the potential of developing new economic instruments or modifying existing ones to promote the transition towards a circular economy, with examples from the textile- and construction sector. The results are similar for the two sectors. Economic instruments that could promote circularity include environmental taxes, such as natural resource taxes, import taxes, waste taxes, as well as Extended Producer Responsibility, VAT, and subsidies. A more in-depth analysis of the implementation of environmental taxes in the respective sectors show that taxes can be used to affect the market and consumer behaviour. However, the results indicate that the tax level needs to be relatively high to boost a shift towards circular economy. The results also show the difficulty in anticipating environmental and socio-economic impacts of a tax.

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Use of Economic Instruments in Nordic Environmental Policy 2018–2021

By: Eriksson, Flintull Annica,Karlsson, Annacarin,Zetterberg, Lars,Bragadóttir, Hrafnhildur,Von Bahr, Jenny,Rootzén, Johan,Möllersten, Kenneth,Kloo, Henrik

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Use of Economic Instruments in Nordic Environmental Policy 2018–2021

By: Eriksson, Flintull Annica,Karlsson, Annacarin,Zetterberg, Lars,Bragadóttir, Hrafnhildur,Von Bahr, Jenny,Rootzén, Johan,Möllersten, Kenneth,Kloo, Henrik

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-520/ This is the nineth quadrennial report on the use of economic instruments in Nordic environmental policy published by the Nordic Working Group for Environment and Economics. The report contains two parts. Part 1 summarizes the most significant developments in the use of economic instruments in the environmental policies in the Nordic countries. It provides an overview of new instruments or major changes to existing instruments from 2018 to 2021 in the Nordic countries. The biggest changes are seen in the transport sector and in the field of energy and air pollution. Part 2 provides an overview of policies and instruments the Nordic countries have used to promote clean technologies. Most common is the use of a mix of environmental taxes and subsidies. Each country has chosen different technological paths depending on national and sector characteristics, as well as national preferences.

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