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Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt

  • Written by Paul Burke, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right?

That’s the economic theory. Stated baldly, it’s obvious, but there is perhaps a tiny chance that what happens in practice might be something else.

In a newly-published paper, we set out...

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