Carbon pricing increases the cost of CO2 emissions and implements the polluter pays principle, making carbon-intensive energy carriers like coal unprofitable if the price is sufficiently high and rising over time.

Authors

• Person: Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Brigitte Knopf, Ulrike Kornek Organization: Global Solutions Initiative
  Carbon Pricing for Climate Change Mitigation and Financing the SDGs

Sources

• Carbon Pricing for Climate Change Mitigation and Financing the SDGs www.global-solutions-initiative.org Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Brigitte Knopf, Ulrike Kornek · Global Solutions Initiative via serper

Referenced by nodes (3)

• carbon pricing concept
• carbon dioxide emissions concept
• coal concept