The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

In an attempt to cut landfill waste in England and Wales by two-thirds, the Government has launched a public consultation on a system of tradable landfill permits. The scheme is designed to bring the ...

PARIS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- European ecologists are studying whether tradable permits, as now used in environmental endeavors, might also help wildlife. A group of economists and ecologists from Britain, ...

Councils which are already carrying out a high level of recycling could lose out if the government's favoured option for issuing landfill permits is adopted. The option is buried within a consultation ...

Requiring the Environment Agency to run an electronic database to handle tradable landfill permits would be ill-advised, one of the UK's experts in electronic transactions has warned. Angus Macpherson ...

Valerie Reppelin, and John Norregaard. Controlling Pollution: Using Taxes and Tradable Permits, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed September 16, 2025 ...