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It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing.  Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation.  This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience.  It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nat...

As President Obama last week encouraged Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce to reach a consensus on climate change legislation, Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) remained mum on the potential changes that were being negotiated with moderate Democrats and when markup of the measure would occur. He is expected to unveil a new compromise approach this week.

Carbon taxes can work, but design matters, and must be taken seriously. Learn more about carbon emissions and climate change tax and green tax reforms.