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Reports on Carbon Price Mechanism Design

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WRI report, Putting a Price on Carbon

World Resources Institute’s 2016 report, Putting a Price on Carbon, is a comprehensive reference guide to the design features, revenue options and economic consequences from different approaches to pr...

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NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation Carbon Pricing Guidance

The New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation published a 2021 guidance document outlining the value of carbon and other climate pollutants for use by other agencies in a regulatory context. ...

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Columbia’s Near-Term to Net Zero Carbon Pricing Approach

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is commonly described and used as the optimal CO2 price. However, the wide range of SCC estimates provides limited practical assistance to policymakers setting specific...

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Report, Carbon Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets: An Economic and Legal Guide

The Institute for Policy Integrity’s 2020 report explains how such carbon-pricing rules in organized wholesale electricity markets can improve economic efficiency. It then explores the economic princi...

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RFI report, Environmental Taxation

Resources for the Future’s 2016 discussion paper, Environmental Taxation, examines potential environmental tax policy reforms, focusing primarily on a carbon tax. The paper draws on recent theoretical...

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Brookings Institute report, A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change

A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change proposes a specific cap-and-trade system with several key features including: an upstream cap on CO2 emissions with gradual inclusion of ot...

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Stanford Law paper, Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impact of US Climate Policy with NEMs

A 2014 Stanford Law paper, Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impact of US Climate Policy with NEMs, analyzes the Climate Protection Act of 2013, a fee-and-dividend policy, and estimates the di...

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Report, Enhancing the Social Benefits of Regulatory Review

The Institute for Policy Integrity’s 2020 report, Enhancing the Social Benefits of Regulatory Review, focuses on potential reforms through the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at th...

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Article, Declining CO2 price paths

A 2019 article, Declining CO2 price paths, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that traditional financial evaluation of uncertain climate risks favors an initially high (>$1...

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RFI paper, The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across Income Groups

Resources for the Future’s 2014 discussion paper, The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across Income Groups, links dynamic models of the United States to estimate the initial incidence of a carbon ta...

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TPC report, How to Use Carbon Tax Revenues

The Tax Policy Center’s 2016 report, How to Use Carbon Tax Revenues, identifies tradeoffs among tax revenue options and makes several recommendations for policy design. It recommends that governments ...