A Panorama on Energy Taxes Amd Green Tax Reforms

This article provides an overview of specific and systemic applications of energy taxes and environmental(or green) tax reforms. To do so it combines a theoretical and empirical assessment of the literature, with anon-exhaustive description of the practice of these instruments and packages in the real world. Besidesyielding a comprehensive approximation to the specific and systemic use of energy taxes, the paper con-tributes to the research in this area by reflecting on the present and future of these instruments in a particu-larly shifting world.