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Airline emissions and the case for a carbon tax on flight tickets

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWould you pay an extra couple of dollars for the climate?Sorbis/shutterstock.com

After years of delay, the international aviation industry is inching its way towards bringing its greenhouse emissions under some form of regulation. Last month the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) released a draft resolution that would,...

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Panama Papers: information sharing could bust open secretive companies in tax havens

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageGovernments of countries, like Panama, where secretive companies operate need better laws to comply with international tax agreements.Rita Willaert/ Flickr, CC BY-NC

The essence of the problem highlighted in the major leak from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is that the governments of tax havens still allow intermediary firms to establish...

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