History of Conferences

The First Annual Conference on Environmental Taxation was hosted by Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA in June 2000. The conference was sponsored by Cleveland State University, The University of Akron, Walsh University, and the World Trade Center-Cleveland.

The Environmental Tax Policy Institute at Vermont Law School hosted the Third Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in April, 2002 in Woodstock, Vermont.

The Fourth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation in Sydney, Australia in June, 2003, was hosted by Macquarie University’s Department of Business Law and Centre for Environmental Law.

The Fifth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation was held in Pavia, Italy, in September 2004. The European School of Advanced Studies in the Integrated Environmental Management of the University of Pavia hosted the conference.

The Seventh Annual Conference on Environmental Taxation was held in Ottawa, Canada, on October 20-22, 2006. Hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, the conference focused on moving from theory to practice, i.e. on concrete concerns regarding the implementation of environmental taxation.

Hosted in Munich, Germany (October 18-20, 2007) by an NGO, Green Budget Germany, a single issue environmental organisation that campaigns and informs on all aspects of environmental fiscal reform, the Eighth Annual Conference on Environmental Taxation focused on the positive effects of environmental taxation and environmental fiscal reform.