About 9th GCET 2008

The Ninth Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation will be held in Singapore from 6-7 November 2008, and is organized by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). It is part of an annual series of academic conferences characterized by an international and multidisciplinary flavour. The conference provides a forum for legal scholars, economists, political scientists, conservationists, representatives of the private sector and others to exchange the latest research on the use of environmental taxes and other economic instruments to advance environmental policy objectives. Economic instruments range from user charges on pollutants or resource use to loans and grants for the development of sustainable technology to emissions trading.

This year’s theme is Environmental Taxation and Challenges of the Urban Environment: Role of Taxation and other Market-based instruments – Exchange of Experiences between Developed and Developing Countries. The conference will focus on the special problems of the urban environment and the challenges which confront cities and megacities. Fiscal policies from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries will be evaluated. Within this thematic framework, the conference will focus on the following areas: energy generation and consumption, transportation, pollution, population growth, housing, urban development and public health.

The Call for Papers describes these sub-themes in greater detail. The process of selecting abstracts is peer-reviewed, and selected papers presented at the conference will be published by Oxford University Press in the peer-reviewed book series Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation - International and Comparative Perspectives.

This is a 2-day conference, from 6-7 November 2008, with 4 plenary sessions. There will be breakout sessions after each plenary to examine specific issues in greater depth. The Honorable Minister for Transport and 2nd Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Raymond Lim will be delivering the Opening Address.

Our partners and supporters include the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS); the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law; the Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School, USA; the Department of Business Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; the Department of Accounting at Cleveland State University, USA; and the International Tax and Investment Centre (ITIC), Washington, DC, USA.

Committee Members

Advisory Committee

Co-chairs

• Prof KREISER, Lawrence, Professor Emeritus of Accounting, Cleveland State University, USA
• Prof MILNE, Janet, Director, Environmental Tax Policy Institute, Vermont Law School

Members

• Prof DOMINGUES, Jose Marcos, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
• Mr LIU, Hern Kuan, Chief Legal Officer, Legal Division, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Singapore
• Prof DEKELETAERE, Kurt, Director, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, Faculty of Law, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• Prof RODI, Michael, University of Greifswald, Germany
• Prof ROBINSON, Nicholas, Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, School of Law, Pace University, USA
• Prof WANG, Xi, Director, Environmental and Resources Law Institute, School of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University, PRC
• Mr WITT, Dan, President, International Tax and Investment Center, USA

Steering Committee

Co-chairs

• Prof KOH, Kheng Lian, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Assoc Prof LYE, Lin Heng, Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Members

• Assoc Prof ASHIABOR, Hope, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Assoc Prof CHALIFOUR, Nathalie, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Prof FLORINI, Ann, Director, Centre for Asia and Globilisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Mr RAE, Kwon Chun, Director, Environmental and Sustainable Development Division, UN ESCAP, Bangkok
• Asst Prof SIRISOM, J, Maharakhan University, Thailand
• Asst Prof SOARES, Claudia Dias, Portuguese Catholic University, Portugal