An assessment of the potential of using carbon tax revenue to tackle poverty

A carbon tax is one of the measures used to reduce GHG emissions, as it provides a strong political instrument for reaching the goal, stated in the Paris Agreement, of limiting the global mean temperature increase to well below 2 °C. While one aspect of a carbon tax is its ability to change income d...

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Main Authors: Shinichiro Fujimori, Tomoko Hasegawa, Ken Oshiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb55d