Fiscal Monitor, October 2019 : How to Mitigate Climate Change.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.

Contributor:

International Monetary Fund, Editor.

Series:

Fiscal Monitor; Fiscal Monitor ; No. 2019/002

Fiscal Monitor

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.

Summary:

This report emphasizes the environmental, fiscal, economic, and administrative case for using carbon taxes, or similar pricing schemes such as emission trading systems, to implement climate mitigation strategies. It provides a quantitative framework for understanding their effects and trade-offs with other instruments and applies it to the largest advanced and emerging economies. Alternative approaches, like “feebates” to impose fees on high polluters and give rebates to cleaner energy users, can play an important role when higher energy prices are difficult politically. At the international level, the report calls for a carbon price floor arrangement among large emitters, designed flexibly to accommodate equity considerations and constraints on national policies. The report estimates the consequences of carbon pricing and redistribution of its revenues for inequality across households. Strategies for enhancing the political acceptability of carbon pricing are discussed, along with supporting measures to promote clean technology investments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781513515328

1513515322

9781513515335

1513515330