Pricing not enough for deep carbon cuts

Michael Mehling; Endre Tvinnereim

doi:10.1038/d41586-017-08578-7

Pricing not enough for deep carbon cuts

Michael Mehling, Endre Tvinnereim

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Carbon pricing dominates the climate-policy debate on the basis of its promise to abate greenhouse-gas emissions at least cost. Although this holds true for incremental emissions reductions, we question whether it can spur the changes needed for decarbonization, a goal of the Paris agreement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	175
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nature
Volume	552
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-08578-7
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2017

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carbon pricing
decarbonisation

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