Biofuels, megacities, and green taxes: the whys and wherefores of non-fiscal fuel taxation. Brazil in world context

• Main Author: Domingues, José Marcos
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University PressOxford 2009
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199577989.003.0016; https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52620447/isbn-9780199577989-book-part-16.pdf

Abstract Last winter, the melting of Argentinian glaciers very close to the Antarctic continent attracted the attention of the whole world. In the wake of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, preceded by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, global warming has become a major environmental priority of the Brazilian leadership. Some 72.6 per cent of Brazilian leaders consider themselves highly motivated to learn more about climate change and 60.8 per cent of the aggregate response take environmental problems as the major challenge facing Brazil in the next twenty years.