Effective Carbon Rates [electronic resource]: Pricing CO2 through Taxes and Emissions Trading Systems / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs

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Summary note
To tackle climate change, CO2 emissions need to be cut. Pricing carbon is one of the most effective and lowest-cost ways of inducing such cuts. This report presents the first full analysis of the use of carbon pricing on energy in 41 OECD and G20 economies, covering 80% of global energy use and of CO2 emissions. The analysis takes a comprehensive view of carbon prices, including specific taxes on energy use, carbon taxes and tradable emission permit prices. It shows the entire distribution of effective carbon rates by country and the composition of effective carbon rates by six economic sectors within each country. Carbon prices are seen to be often very low, but some countries price significant shares of their carbon emissions. The ‘carbon pricing gap’, a synthetic indicator showing the extent to which effective carbon rates fall short of pricing emissions at EUR 30 per tonne, the low-end estimate of the cost of carbon used in this study, sheds light on potential ways of strengthening carbon pricing.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Contents
  • Effective carbon rates across 41 countries and on a country-by-country basis
  • Korea
  • Argentina
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Mexico
  • Austria
  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
  • New Zealand
  • Brazil
  • Iceland
  • Estimating effective carbon rates
  • India
  • Description of emissions trading systems and results
  • Ireland
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Finland
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Abbreviations
  • France
  • Reader's guide
  • Executive summary
  • Germany
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Greece
  • United Kingdom
  • Turkey
  • Hungary
  • Foreword and acknowledgements
  • United States
  • Poland
  • Effective carbon rates: Results of the analysis
  • Norway
  • Canada
  • Effective carbon rates: Concept and scope
  • Effective carbon rates: Summary and conclusions
  • Chile
  • Portugal
  • Russian Federation
  • Effective carbon rates: An introduction and main results
  • People's Republic of China
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Slovak Republic
  • Slovenia
  • Estonia
  • Carbon pricing: Reducing emissions in a cost-effective manner.
ISBN
  • 92-64-26009-9
  • 92-64-26011-0
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