The environmental and economic role of green taxes in Denmark for the period 2000-2019

Abstract

The increasing use of fossil fuels has exacerbated the negative effects of climate change and the expansion of environmental problems in the world in general and Denmark in particular, and it has become necessary to search for new mechanisms for the purpose of directing economic and environmental policies towards the use of new tools to modify consumption and investment behavior in the field of energy use. The study is to show the historical development of green taxes in Denmark as well as the environmental and economic role of green taxes. Energy taxes in increasing renewable investments and employment and increasing the production of green electricity as well as contributing to reducing emissions rates of greenhouse gases. Transfer taxes in shift Towards the use of cars that use electricity energy, and the imposition of taxes on pollution / resources has environmental and economic effects, and the study recommended the need to benefit from the Danish experience in the field of energy taxation because of its economic and environmental effects