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Cropped 3 July 2024: Brazil wetlands blaze; Denmark agri carbon tax; Heat and drought hit crops

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Q&A: How ‘Fit for 55’ reforms will help EU meet its climate goals

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Guest post: How to ‘fairly’ share emissions from goods traded around the world

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In-depth Q&A: How does the UK’s ‘energy white paper’ aim to tackle climate change?

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Guest post: What the UK can learn from carbon pricing schemes around the world

Joshua Burke is a policy fellow and Rebecca Byrnes is a policy analyst, both at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment... Read More

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In-depth Q&A: Why Ireland is ‘nowhere near’ meeting its climate-change goals

Despite its comparatively small population, stalling efforts to tackle climate change mean Ireland contributes a disproportionate volume of Europe’s... Read More

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Global carbon tax in isolation could ‘exacerbate food insecurity by 2050’

The implementation of a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions could – without other complementary policies – “have a greater negative impact on... Read More

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Countdown to 2025: Tracking the UK coal phase out

Update 12/3/2021 – Drax ended commercial coal generation at its two remaining coal units on Friday 5 March. The firm holds capacity market contracts... Read More

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Revealed: Emails undermine government's argument for cutting renewables support

The government has repeatedly cited official forecasts of rising energy costs to justify cuts to subsidies for renewables, saying consumer bills need... Read More

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Carbon pricing schemes climb to $50bn, despite Australian backtracking

The value of carbon pricing schemes rose to $50 billion in 2015, according to a new assessment by the World Bank. ... Read More

Australian carbon tax repeal fails after surprise vote

Australia's government has failed to repeal the country's carbon tax. An unlikely alliance of Labor, the Greens, the Palmer United Party and... one... Read More

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Map: coal plants in the UK

Countdown to 2025: Tracking the UK coal phase out

Carbon tax | 2016-02-10

Q&A: How ‘Fit for 55’ reforms will help EU meet its climate goals

Carbon tax | 2021-07-20
 Row of billowing blue European Union flags outside the EU headquarters Berlaymont building

In-depth Q&A: Why Ireland is ‘nowhere near’ meeting its climate-change goals

Carbon tax | 2019-06-18
 Blocks of peat being cut in Connemara National Park, Republic of Ireland. Credit: robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo.

In-depth Q&A: How does the UK’s ‘energy white paper’ aim to tackle climate change?

Carbon tax | 2020-12-16
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The state of carbon pricing: Around the world in 46 carbon markets

Carbon tax | 2014-05-29
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