Carbon pricing has been hailed as an essential component of any sensible climate policy.
Internalize the externalities, the logic goes, and polluters will change their behavior. The …

Transport CO2 emissions continue to grow globally despite advances in low-carbon
technology and goal setting by numerous governments. In this Perspective, we summarize …

Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction
potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we …

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during the last decade (2010–
2019) were higher than at any previous time in human history (high confidence). Since …

To achieve zero carbon or achieving carbon neutrality target is of great importance to many
countries around the globe especially post Paris climate agreement. This study, unlike …

The gap between actual carbon prices and those required to achieve ambitious climate
change mitigation could be closed by enhancing the public acceptability of carbon pricing …

This quasi-experimental study is the first to find a significant causal effect of carbon taxes on
emissions, empirically analyzing the implementation of a carbon tax and a value-added tax …

In view of the challenges posed by climate change and the increasingly ambitious climate
targets around the world, the search for effective climate policy instruments is gaining …

In order to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, the world must reach net‐
zero carbon emissions around mid‐century, which calls for an entirely new energy system …

Taxes on fossil fuels could be a useful policy tool for governments seeking to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. However, such taxes are politically challenging to introduce, as …