Reports

Carbon Pricing as a Policy Instrument to Decarbonize Economies (Bose, Bridges and DeFrancia, 2019)
The Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management has conducted a comparative study on the suitability of different carbon pricing mechanisms for mitigating climate change in different economic

Using Carbon Revenues (PMR, 2019)
Carbon pricing revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective climate mitigation, industrial competitiveness and other economic and development objectives. What is more, the use of carbon revenues and the way

How to Mitigate Climate Change (IMF’s Fiscal Monitor, 2019)
The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor asserts that limiting the planet’s warming to 2 degrees Celsius will require raising the carbon tax to $75 (from the current average of $2) per ton

Taxing Energy Use 2019 (OECD)
The recently released OECD report reveals 70% of energy-related CO2 emissions from advanced and emerging economies are entirely untaxed. Emissions from road fuels are among those most highly taxed but rarely

OECD new report includes environmental sustainability considerations (IISD)
The IISD’s piece on the new OECD report, Going for Growth 2019, highlights the fact that, for the first time, the report explicitly includes environmental sustainability considerations. The report calls

Going for Growth 2019 (OECD)
Slow growth, high uncertainty and rising levels of inequality should prompt policy makers to take urgent action to achieve stronger, sustainable and more inclusive growth, states the OECD’s annual Going