CO2 Tax Driven More by Fiscal Than Climate Policy

Often, national CO2 taxes are too low to reduce emissions effectively, primarily serving symbolic and fiscal purposes instead. This is the conclusion reached by a recent study conducted by energy policy researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Potsdam, and the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in…

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