Energy policy: Push Renewables to spur carbon pricing
Övrig text i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

Putting a price on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to curb emissions must be the centrepiece of any comprehensive climate-change policy. We know it works: pricing carbon creates broad incentives to cut emissions. Yet the current price of carbon remains much too low relative to the hidden environmental, health and societal costs of burning a tonne of coal or a barrel of oil1. The global average price is below zero, once half a trillion dollars of fossil-fuel subsidies are factored in.

Policy

Energy

Climate sciences

Economics

Författare

Gernot Wagner

Göteborgs universitet

Tomas Kåberger

Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Fysisk resursteori

Susanna Olai

Göteborgs universitet

Michael Oppenheimer

Princeton University

Katherine Rittenhouse

Environmental Defense Fund

Thomas Sterner

Göteborgs universitet

Nature

0028-0836 (ISSN) 1476-4687 (eISSN)

Vol. 525 7567 27-29

Ämneskategorier

Nationalekonomi

Energisystem

Miljövetenskap

Klimatforskning

DOI

10.1038/525027a

Mer information

Senast uppdaterat

2023-08-07