The Republic of the Marshall Islands has been advancing a proposal before the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to impose a $100 per ton tax on all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Wall Street is on pace to earn record fees from climate-conscious debt, but bankers make more money financing the companies behind global warming. While investment bankers are on pace to earn record
Government proposes net zero deadline of 2045 instead of 2050, but critics demand actions not numbers Germany’s government is to revise its emission reduction targets after the country’s constitutional court
On April 22 and 23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate. Shortly before the summit, the United States announced a plan to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday released details of a tax hike proposal that would replace subsidies for fossil fuel companies with incentives for production of clean energy in
The European Union is considering a new tax on imports as it tries to fight climate change, and the U.S. is raising concerns about it. By Timothy Hamilton At issue is what’s known
As the world looks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and tackle climate change, progressive consumer taxes on resource-intensive goods could help. Such taxes would fall on the rich more
The leaders of Russia and China put aside their raw-worded disputes with U.S. President Joe Biden on 22 April long enough to pledge international cooperation on cutting climate-wrecking coal and
President Joe Biden’s recently unveiled tax plan to accompany his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal takes direct aim at fossil fuel subsidies in favor of clean energy incentives. The U. S.
Any global temperature target must be translated into an intertemporal carbon budget and an associated cost-efficient carbon price schedule. This column uses an intertemporal asset-pricing approach to examine the impact
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