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Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 15/1/2017 16:46

Equality is better for everyone - including the rich!
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Political domain, Work - Employment, Early childhood care, Primary and Secondary Education, Social Security - Pensions, Solidarity - Integration, Health, Public Finance - Taxation, Freedoms - Security
British epidemiologists R. Wilkinson & K. Pickett have demonstrated (see a summary of their work here: https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/spirit-level) that everyone benefits from a more equal society - even the rich! They demonstrate this based on statistical evidence (the correlation between equality and better performance exists), and on biological mechanisms (the causal relationship goes from equality to better quality of life and not the other way round). Life in an INequal society generate...
Inactive working group without members

Establish an Environmentally-Sustainable Living Wage as the minimum wage in each EU Member State
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Macroeconomic and Monetary policy, Policy domain, 3-Member State, Scale at which decisions are taken, Equality, Social policy - Social rights, Work - Employment, Ecology - Sustainable Development, 2-Whole EU
In each Member State one can define a "Environmentally Sustainanable Living Wage (ESLW)". We propose that: (1) a methodology be defined at EU level to establish such an ESLW; (2) in each EU Member State, this methodology be used to define such a ESLW, which can be differentiated per region (e.g. according to the local infrastructure or housing costs); (3) the EU adopt per Directive this ESLW as the mandatory minimum wage in the Member State or region. The mode of implementation of this minim...
Inactive working group without members

Fix the failures of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) with Border Adjustment Measures on carbon emissions prices
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Political domain, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale, Scale - Whole EU, Industry, International relations - Trade agreements, Public Finance - Taxation
Imposing a price to carbon emissions in Europe (in the form of tradeable allowances or of a carbon tax) is detrimental to the external competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries. We propose to set up a border adjustment on the price of carbon: the importer pays the internal tax (or purchases emissions allowances), the exporter is being refunded (or sells emissions allowances). The proposed policy is WTO-compatible and relies on well-proven institutions (e.g. VAT) and technologies....
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 13/1/2018 10:48

Support the development of thermal solar energy with high, guaranteed feed-in tariffs for heat
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Policy domain, 3-Member State, Networks: Energy - Transport - Telecommmunications, 2-Whole EU, Scale at which decisions are taken, Science - Technology - Innovation, Ecology - Sustainable Development
The only renewable energy that does not take off in Europe is thermal solar energy: solar panels to collect heat for domestic uses (hot water, heating, even air conditioning!). It should however be strongly supported: its yield is excellent, and (contrary to photovoltaic and wind), it stores its output very simply in the form of hot water. Domestic heating and hot water count as major sources of energy consumption (>25% of the total - to be confirmed), so that replacing the current use of fossi...
Inactive working group with 1 member

Fix the failures of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) with Border Adjustment Measures on carbon emissions prices
Open to a working group

Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale, Political domain, Industry, Public Finance - Taxation, Scale - Whole EU
Imposing a price to carbon emissions in Europe (in the form of tradeable allowances or of a carbon tax) is detrimental to the external competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries. We propose to set up a border adjustment on the price of carbon: the importer pays the internal tax (or purchases emissions allowances), the exporter is being refunded (or sells emissions allowances). The proposed policy is WTO-compatible and relies on well-proven institutions (e.g. VAT) and technologies....

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