Climate change will be the single most important global policy challenge of the 2020s. Green fiscal policies such as carbon taxes, emissions trading and fossil fuel subsidy reform are amongst the most efficient and effective instruments to policymakers to tackle climate change.
Fossil fuel producers in the U.S. are directly benefiting from implicit subsidies on the order of $62 billion a year because of inefficient pricing that
Consumers get most of the benefits of unpaid costs, but companies get a slice, too. Arguments about our shift to renewable power often focus on
THEODOROS ZACHARIADIS, NESTOR FYLAKTOS, ELIAS GIANNAKIS, CONSTANTINOS TALIOTIS, MARIOS KARMELLOS, MARK HOWELLS, WILL BLYTH, STÉPHANE HALLEGATTE Everybody agrees that a strong policy response to COVID-19
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of cities working to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy surged in 2020, representing a quarter of the
Carbon taxes are cheaper, more efficient than other policies, study finds by Ohio State University Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – Putting a price on producing carbon
Victoria Bassetti and Kelsey Landau As the COVID-19 pandemic upended long-settled fossil fuel supply and demand expectations, natural resource governance experts contemplatedsomething that seemed politically insurmountable just a year
By Daniel Tencer The feds doled out about $1.9 billion to oil and gas companies in 2020. Canada tripled its federal subsidies to the oil and
By STEPHEN STAPCZYNSKI The world’s governments will need to significantly increase the cost of emitting carbon dioxide in order to keep global warming at bay. That’s
The American Petroleum Institute may come out in favor of a carbon price, a sign of Washington’s dramatic move toward climate-friendly policy. By Jennifer A Dlouhy and Leslie Kaufman
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