Carbon pricing is widely recognized as the most economically efficient policy to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. However, its high-cost visibility creates political challenges for …

Carbon pricing has now been implemented as a key policy instrument for climate change
mitigation in many countries globally. However, existing systems differ significantly in design …

Over the coming decades, the cost of US climate change policy likely will be comparable to
the total cost of all existing environmental regulation—perhaps 1-2 percent of national …

The results are presented from a survey of national legislation and strategies to mitigate
climate change covering almost all United Nations member states between 2007 and 2012 …

Closing the gap between current climate change mitigation policies and those needed to
deliver on the Paris Agreement's temperature targets requires significant scaling up of policy …

Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5–2° C increase. Either target
requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major …

This article assesses a wide range of alternative proposals for post-2012 international
climate policy regimes. We believe that these proposals will serve as a basis for debates …

Abstract In the United States, state governments have been the locus of action for
addressing climate change. However, the lack of a holistic measure of state climate policy …

Traditionally, analysis of the costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions has assumed that
governments would implement idealized, optimal policies such as uniform economy-wide …

Most policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have focused on
producers, and on the energy efficiency of buildings, vehicles and other products …