Policy Studies on the Economic System For Preserving the Environment

本研究的目的是探索实现由一套规则支配的经济体系的政策，这些规则将保护环境并解决全球变暖问题。2000年8月，在西班牙塞维利亚举行的国际公共财政研究所第56届大会上，论文《绿色税收改革：将隐性碳税转化为纯碳税》发表了基本观点。本文提出并考察了日本的绿色税制改革。绿色税制改革将现有的几种石油产品消费税，即隐性碳税，在收入中性的条件下转化为纯碳税，有效减少二氧化碳排放1833万吨碳。在其他论文中，我们从几个不同的角度研究了中央和地方政府在实现保护环境和其他绿色税收改革的经济体系中的作用。我们的研究得出的一个结论是，地方环境税在保护环境方面发挥着非常重要的作用。我们已经向研究委员会提出了我们研究的政策含义；环境部环境税司，农林部政策咨询委员会。

The purpose of this research is to explore policies for realizing an economic system governed by a set of rules that would preserve the environment and solve the global warming problem. The basic ideas were published in "Green Tax Reform : Converting Implicit Carbon Taxes to a Pure Carbon Tax," a paper presented at the 56th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Seville, Spain, in August of 2000. The paper proposes and examines a green tax reform in Japan. The green tax reform converted several existing excise taxes on petroleum products, namely implicit carbon taxes, into a pure carbon tax in a revenue-neutral condition should effectively abate CO_2 emissions by 18.33 million tons of carbon.In other papers we examine the roles of central and local governments in realizing an economic system that preserves the environment and other green tax reforms from several different points of view. One conclusion from our research is that local environmental taxes play very important roles in preserving the environment.We have presented the policy implications of our research at the Research Committee ; of Environmental Taxes in Ministry of Environment, a Policy Advisory Commission of The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.