Civil society call on the Irish Finance Minister to put the issue of fossil fuel profit taxation on the agenda of the next Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting on 18-19 September, as already requested by six Member States: Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, Spain and Portugal.

By Jean Saldanha, Director of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and Lidy Nacpil, Coordinator of the Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

Progressive environmental taxation is pivotal to making progress on the ecological transition, as well as on social and economic justice. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Excessive Ecological Footprint Taxation to combat the exploitation of global environmental public goods and catalyse the social-ecological transformation of our economies.