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- Title
The French Carbon Tax: Autopsy of an Ambition.
- Authors
Laurent, Éloi
- Abstract
The French carbon tax was to become in 2010 the centerpiece of the country's new climate change mitigation strategy. After a heated public debate, the Constitutional Council, France's higher constitutional law body, censored the executive's proposal, which in turn, in the aftermath of a severe electoral defeat, announced the indefinite postponement of the carbon tax. This article tries to make sense of this important sequence in French contemporary public life by reviewing its different facets: environmental economics, political economy, constitutional law, and finally politics.
- Subjects
FRANCE; CARBON taxes; CLIMATE change prevention; ENVIRONMENTAL economics; CONSTITUTIONAL law; FRANCE. Conseil constitutionnel; SARKOZY Administration; FRENCH economic policy
- Publication
French Politics, Culture & Society, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 3, p114
- ISSN
1537-6370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/fpcs.2010.280307