Smart budget

His experience in working with senior levels of the public service, the private sector, the national media, and among MPs and cabinet ministers has been honed in a variety of senior staff positions, including Chief of Staff to the Minister of State for Infrastructure and Communities, where he played an integral role in the development and implementation of one of the government’s priorities, the N [...] While there is variability among the instruments, and overlap between the issues they can address, the general principles of the various instruments are consistent: by changing the prices of various goods and services, EPR instruments can increase the costs of environmentally harmful actions or directions, decrease the costs of more sustainable patterns, and improve the fiscal situations of local [...] While there is variability between the instruments, and overlap between the issues they can address, the general principles of the various instruments are consistent: by changing the prices of various goods and services, EPR instruments can increase the costs of environmentally harmful actions or directions, decrease the costs of more sustainable patterns, and improve the fiscal situations of loca [...] Motivation matters; it is the guiding force behind the selection of policies and the design of instruments – the DNA of policy change. [...] At the middle and higher end of the consumption spectrum, the price should be set at a level that actually makes a significant impact on consumption (at least as much impact as is made at the bottom, and perhaps more in light of the reasons for the use).