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Industry criticises ministers for implementing scheme on a slower timetable than EU
Officials will have to tread carefully to avoid a consumer backlash
Ministers waffling at COP summits would do better to create a cross-border trading scheme to provide those magic numbers
Campaigners fear effect on climate of cases dragging on for years, though energy groups risk complacency, analysts warn
Whether through taxes or emissions trading, many deals globally have been politically controversial, though there is cause for optimism
Programme would mirror scheme launched by EU
Resistance is futile
Fund says costs of hitting net zero by 2050 could raise public debt by 50% of GDP, without taxes
UK carbon market collapse lets Brussels benefit from revenues that would previously have gone to Treasury
The measure aims to promote green technologies worldwide
Fears of unpredictable costs and bottlenecks when ‘adjustment mechanism’ enters trial phase on October 1
Many governments and business leaders have made commitments to reduce carbon emissions in response to the 2015 Paris Agreement. This series covers topics surrounding clean tech innovation, energy efficiency and internal carbon pricing
Applying internal pricing to business operations makes environmental, and financial, consequences tangible
Slow and iterative litigation through the WTO looks the most promising route to a global carbon pricing regime
Levy encourages non-EU producers to generate scrap to be remelted and sold to bloc
Business and society must invest in adaptation now despite uncertainty about the impact
Carbon pricing need not be as detrimental as markets fear, three researchers argue
EU’s pioneering carbon border tax could be used to achieve compensation from an aggressor
CBAM should stop ‘carbon leakage’, where output moves elsewhere and employment in Europe takes a hit
Geoengineering is risky and undesirable but thinking of pragmatic insurance policies is important
Proposal likely to run into resistance in some capitals
Companies including Shell and Bank of America call for ‘clarity and stability’
Disagreements on carbon tax call into question Brussels’ environmental ambitions
Plus, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations gets a ‘green’ leader with a controversial back-story
Plan would raise more than $50bn a year on sector’s almost 1bn tonnes of emissions
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