Capacity building, programmatic development and communication in the field of environmental taxation and budgetary reform.

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The main objective of this contract is to contribute to a broader development and application of market-based instruments (MBI) in the field of environmental policy, in particular environmental taxes, by improving the knowledge base, stimulating exchanges of experience and best practice, in particular on pollution and resource taxes, and by making civil society organisations better prepared to participate in the policy-making process — both on the national and the EU level.The contract involves the establishment of an inventory of economic instruments to address pollution and resource use that are in place in the EU-28, which forms the basis for an analysis of the use of MBIs addressing pollution and resource consumption in the regions as well as the impacts of environmentally harmful subsidies. The findings of this analysis will be presented and discussed at regional workshops on the basis of a number of discussion papers. These will be revised afterwards to reflect the input received during the workshops and will be consolidated into a final report presenting the results of the work.