Carbon tax needs thresholds to reach its full potential

John Pezzey and Frank Jotzo
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Frank Jotzo: Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 12, 1008-1011

Abstract: The political opportunities for implementing a carbon tax high enough to induce large emission cuts will be better if at first the tax is charged on the difference between emissions and fixed thresholds, rather than on all emissions as is now practised.

Date: 2013
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