Tax Code Changes

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Pathways to Deep Decarbonization

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All actors should address generational scale lifestyle changes by encouraging such changes that promote decarbonization, and head off the opposite 3, 109
All actors should promote strategies to reduce emissions from existing and new equipment and buildings, including monthly feedback and information campaigns 3, 107
All actors should promote strategies to reduce emissions from existing and new vehicles, e.g. through fuel use feedback devices and development of eco-driving education programs 3, 107
Congress should review aviation taxes and charges to assess adequacy in light of aviation's climate impact 16, 432
FAA could review all the taxes and charges placed on the aviation industry with the objective of considering whether they are adequate in light of aviation’s climate impact. 16, 432
FAA should consider a “frequent flyer levy” in the United States when measures it proposes to reduce aviation emissions raise significant equity concerns. 16, 443
FAA should reconsider its guidelines on state aviation taxes and redesign them to allow states to adopt appropriate taxes to reduce aviation emissions. 16, 443
Federal govt. should negotiate air service agreements to allow taxation of fuel in international aviation 16, 440
Federal govt. should promote generational-scale lifestyle changes to promote decarbonization, and head off the reverse 3, 109
Federal govt. should promote reduced emissions from existing and new home equipment and buildings, including monthly feedback and information campaigns 3, 107
Federal govt. should promote reduced emissions from existing and new vehicles, e.g. fuel use feedback devices and eco-driving eduction 3, 107
Federal govt. should use tax policy to encourage companies and individuals to manage forestland to sequester carbon 31, 844
Individuals could purchase very high quality offsets when they decide to fly 16, 437
Local govts. can incentivize carbon sequestration on corporate and private lands through tax deducations and credits 31, 844
Private actors should promote emissions reductions from new and existing buildings and homes, e.g. through monthly feedback and information campaigns 3, 107
State legislatures should re-envision severance taxes that create natural resource trust funds as tools for phasing down extraction of fossil fuels and raising more near-term resources for social policies. 24, 641
States should raise fuel tax to the extent possible under FAA rules 16, 432
States should review all aviation taxes and charges to assess adequacy in light of aviation's climate impacts 16, 432

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