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A new UN video on climate change explains how carbon pricing can help advance a transition to a low-carbon future.
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Study shows how a carbon tax can both accelerate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and not hurt low-income households (United Nations)
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NPR station cites Joint Program study that found that pricing carbon and returning the revenue from it to the public would reduce greenhouse gas emissions (WBUR)
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Huffington Post (Canada)
Joint Program study cited in Huffington Post (Canada) blog
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Several different carbon-pricing approaches would help reduce emissions, and some would be fair as well, researchers report
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New method could sharpen international climate policy design
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Boston Globe
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By 2050, the Southwest will produce significantly less cotton and forage, researchers report
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J. Caron
(2022)
Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, J. Caron, contributor; Michael Jakob, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and Ecologic Institute, editor
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Zhang, D., J. Caron, N. Winchester
(2018)
Journal of Industrial Ecology, online first
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Caron, J., S.M. Cohen, M. Brown and J. Reilly
(2018)
Climate Change Economics, 9(1): 1840004 (doi: 10.1142/S2010007818400043)
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Video
A new UN video on climate change explains how carbon pricing can help advance a transition to a low-carbon future.
In The News
United Nations
Study shows how a carbon tax can both accelerate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and not hurt low-income households (United Nations)
In The News
WBUR
NPR station cites Joint Program study that found that pricing carbon and returning the revenue from it to the public would reduce greenhouse gas emissions (WBUR)