New CPLC paper outlines various options for using carbon pricing revenues

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The brief outlines how revenue flows can be used by governments towards households, to reduce other taxes, provide transitional support to industry, reduce public deficit, meet climate finance needs or to meet other spending objectives. The paper discusses the challenges and opportunities that the various options present while providing some examples of revenue usage from jurisdictions that have existing carbon pricing policies.

Find the publication here: “What are the options for using carbon pricing revenues?”

To read I4CE’s previous work on the utilisation of carbon pricing revenues, please see the publications below :

Policy brief: Recycling carbon revenues: transforming costs into opportunities

Chapter 5 of the COPEC report – EU ETS and Low Carbon Funding Mechanisms

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