Economists argue that carbon taxation (and more generally carbon pricing) is the single
most powerful way to combat climate change. Since this is so controversial, we need to …

There is widespread agreement among most economists that economy-wide carbon pricing
will be a necessary (although not necessarily sufficient) component of any policy that can …

In environmental economics, the marginal external cost of emitting a pollutant determines
the optimal abatement policy, which might take the form of an emissions tax. But the …

This international conference on taxation and the environment is exquisitely timed. It is two
and a bit months before the Paris conference of the United Nations Framework Convention …

A uniform global carbon price (and prices on other greenhouse gases in proportion to their
warming potential), delivered either by carbon taxes or carbon trading, would be an ideal …

How to make carbon taxes more acceptable Page 1 How to make carbon taxes more
acceptable Stefano Carattini, Maria Carvalho and Sam Fankhauser Policy report December …

There has been much talk about imposing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions as a way of
forestalling or averting the greenhouse effect, but little discussion about how large the tax …

The failure of markets to price carbon emissions appropriately leads to excessive fuel use
and induces global warming. This column suggests a new, back-of-the-envelope rule for …

When dealing with economic public goods like global warming, it is necessary to reach
through governments to the multitude of firms and Consumers who make the vast number of …

This paper was, at its inception in the fall of 1990, intended to review a growing literature on
carbon taxes-taxes that have been proposed as one policy option that would be available to …