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Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 9/7/2017 13:16

We must organise and manage an orderly and just decline of the automotive industry
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Political domain, Work - Employment, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Industry, Land use planning & Geographic cohesiveness
The automotive industry has an enormous importance in terms of (1) environmental impact, (2) contribution to mobility and (3) economic value added and employment. Automotive use and production should decline over the next century - but this decline must be managed responsibly.
Inactive working group with 2 members

(Do X…) to organise and manage an orderly and just decline of the automotive industry [Public Policy Proposal stub]
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Political domain, Work - Employment, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Industry, Land use planning & Geographic cohesiveness
The automotive industry has an enormous importance in terms of (1) environmental impact, (2) contribution to mobility and (3) economic value added and employment. Automotive use and production should decline over the next century - but this decline must be managed responsibly....
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 15/1/2017 17:04

Advertising destroys the democratic role of the press
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Political domain, Digitalisation, Institutions, Culture, Science - Technology - Innovation, Freedoms - Security
"If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product being sold" Most business models on the Internet, and in the media industry, are based on a "free" access to the user - while those who actually pay are the companies purchasing advertising space to which the user is exposed. This dominant business model has a pernicious effect on the role that the press should play in a democracy. Those that actually control the media are not the users, they are the paying customers: the (big and smal...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 14/1/2017 16:28

A Financial Transaction Tax levied on voting rights of shareholders
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Macroeconomic and Monetary policy, Public Finance - Taxation, Political domain
The justification of shareholders being the only ones who take decisions in companies is that they are supposed to have contributed most to its existence by providing the necessary capital. However, this only holds true for those who purchased the shares from the company upon its capital increase (on the "primary market"). All the others never brought any capital to the company itself: they just bought their shares from a previous owner, on a second-hand market (the "secondary market" on the S...
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...
Submitted by Sergio Arbarviro the 18/12/2016 11:21

Border adjustment measures on carbon emissions rights
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Political domain, Ecology - Sustainable Development, Scale, Scale - Whole EU, Industry, 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. I propose to set up a border adjustment on the price of carbon: the importer pays the internal tax, the exporter is being refunded.
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....
Inactive working group with 1 member

Fix the failures of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) with Border Adjustment Measures on carbon emissions prices
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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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