The National Biodiversity Authority has released a new set of rules to manage sharing of benefits generated through the use of biological resources. The Biological Diversity (Access to biological Resources and Knowledge Associated thereto and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits) Regulation 2025 was approved by the Central government and …
The UK Government should move away from out-dated green taxes which target businesses and instead offer green tax incentives to reduce carbon emissions, according to the manufacturers' organisation EEF. In a new report titled ‘The Low Carbon Economy – From Stick to Carrot’, EEF reviews the carbon tax changes announced …
Zimbabwe: Nyarota Attempts to Evade Paying Rent, Judge Orders Him to Fork Out U.S $40k Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has implored African governments to levy multi-lateral companies for contributing to climate change and channel the money into a common fund to address the effects. Speaking during the …
The 5p charge on plastic bags to be introduced in October faces accusations that it will confuse customers - and doubtless lead to arguments at the checkout. The charge is being introduced as part of a government policy to reduce waste by cutting bag use by up to 80 per …
Environment researchers have made fresh calls for a tax on polluters on the back of an OECD report highlighting rising pressures on our green backyard. Through its new book, Vanishing Nature, the Environmental Defence Society has put forward an environmental consumption tax and rebate as a key reform, which it …
BEIJING - The State Council, China's cabinet, on Wednesday released for public opinion a draft law on environmental taxes, which proposes business taxes for pollutants, solid waste and noise. The draft proposed rates ranging from 350 yuan ($57) to 11,200 yuan on various industrial noises according to the decibels level. …
BEIJING - Chinese authorities have a timetable for implementing a system of taxing polluters, a senior law researcher has revealed. The long-awaited tax, which will replace the current administrative penalties that are widely seen as ineffective, will be ushered in after the law behind it is finalized. The draft law …
DHAKA : Although seven months of the current fiscal have elapsed, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) could not yet take any effective step for realising ‘one percent surcharge’ or ‘green tax’ from the industries and factories that are polluting the environment, reports UNB. The ‘green tax’ system was supposed …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babu Lal Jaju Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 26/11/2014 regarding utilization of green tax in Rajasthan. Counsel for the State has filed M.A. No. 659/2014 with the prayer for taking on record the annexed …
Jumhooree Party leader and Maamigili constituency MP Gasim Ibrahim has called the authorities to use the green tax which will be commenced from November of next year for different environmental causes. He made this remark speaking at the budget committees meeting held yesterday at the Peoples’ Majlis Gasim Ibrahim said …
The National Board of Revenue is set to exclude hundreds of brick fields from the list of polluting industries for surcharge imposition due to contradiction in the definition of industry and establishment specified in the law and rules, officials said. Hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres may also be excluded from …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has reiterated the demand for allowing the mineral-bearing States to levy green tax taking into consideration the adverse environmental impact from mining activities. Besides, it also raised the demand to compensate the States on account of reduction in the Central Sales Tax (CST) rate. Due to …
The National Board of Revenue could not execute the provision of collecting environment surcharge from the polluting factories even after one month of introduction of the law due to lack of the list of such units, officials said. Department of Environment was supposed to provide the list of polluting industries …
At least a hundred cars queued up at the fuel depots in the capital after word spread that the five percent green tax on petrol and diesel comes into effect from today. Adding the taxes, petrol in Thimphu has become about Nu 73.17 a litre and diesel Nu 60.47 a …
Consumers and businesses saw green taxes increase by £1.7 billion in 2013, including a rise of more than £500 million for renewable energy projects British motorists pay more in tax on fuel than in any other European country, official figures disclose Emily Gosden By Emily Gosden, and Nick Collins8:46PM BST …
The National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to prepare a list of polluting industries for imposing and collecting newly introduced green tax, officials said. The list will be prepared with the help of Department of Environment of the environment and forest ministry, they said. DoE has already been …
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said the government will compensate for lower revenue from a planned ecology tax through other types of levies, for example motorway toll taxes. The government last November froze plans for an "eco-tax" on trucks after protests by farmers and truckers in northwestern France, who clashed …
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday proposed to introduce ‘environment protection surcharge’ or ‘green tax’ on ad-valorem basis on all kinds of products manufactured in the country by the industries which pollute the environment. Industrial development is needed but it cannot be ignored that this development is also having some …
Bangladesh is to unveil a new “green tax” Thursday that will force polluting factories to pay extra levies as it looks to clean up the country’s increasingly dirty rivers and air, an official said Thursday. The tax will be introduced as part of the annual budget for 2014-15, which will …
The government is going to impose eco tax in the form of surcharge from the coming fiscal year of 2014-15 on industries responsible for polluting environment in a bid to control pollution and encourage establishment of green industries, officials of the National Board of Revenue said. The finance minister, Abul …
The government is planning to introduce eco tax from the next fiscal year in an attempt to curb pollution by the industrialists, finance minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said. There have been proposals for imposing higher tax on the industries polluting the environment and giving incentives to green industries, he …