Carbon Pricing Watch 2017

The report is a one stop shop for learning about key developments and prospects of existing and emerging carbon initiatives. There is a continued momentum for carbon pricing. As of 2017, over 40 national and 25 subnational jurisdictions representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emission...

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Main Authors: World Bank, Ecofys
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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2017
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spelling okr-10986-265652021-04-23T14:04:36Z Carbon Pricing Watch 2017 World Bank Ecofys CO2 CARBON CARBON FINANCE CARBON MARKET CARBON PRICING CLIMATE CHANGE GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION STATE AND TRENDS The report is a one stop shop for learning about key developments and prospects of existing and emerging carbon initiatives. There is a continued momentum for carbon pricing. As of 2017, over 40 national and 25 subnational jurisdictions representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions are putting a price on carbon. Over the past decade the number of jurisdictions with carbon pricing initiatives have doubled. On average, carbon pricing initiatives cover about half of the emissions in these jurisdictions, which translates to a total coverage of about 8 Gigatons of carbon dioxide or about 15% of global emissions (a fourfold increase over the past decade). 2017-05-09T21:43:44Z 2017-05-09T21:43:44Z 2017-05-22 Serial 978-1-4648-1129-6 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26565 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic CO2
CARBON
CARBON FINANCE
CARBON MARKET
CARBON PRICING
CLIMATE CHANGE
GREENHOUSE GAS
MITIGATION
STATE AND TRENDS
spellingShingle CO2
CARBON
CARBON FINANCE
CARBON MARKET
CARBON PRICING
CLIMATE CHANGE
GREENHOUSE GAS
MITIGATION
STATE AND TRENDS
World Bank
Ecofys
Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
description The report is a one stop shop for learning about key developments and prospects of existing and emerging carbon initiatives. There is a continued momentum for carbon pricing. As of 2017, over 40 national and 25 subnational jurisdictions representing almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions are putting a price on carbon. Over the past decade the number of jurisdictions with carbon pricing initiatives have doubled. On average, carbon pricing initiatives cover about half of the emissions in these jurisdictions, which translates to a total coverage of about 8 Gigatons of carbon dioxide or about 15% of global emissions (a fourfold increase over the past decade).
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Ecofys
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Ecofys
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title Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
title_short Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
title_full Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
title_fullStr Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
title_full_unstemmed Carbon Pricing Watch 2017
title_sort carbon pricing watch 2017
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2017
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26565
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