Carbon pricing and COVID-19. Policy changes, challenges and design options in OECD and G20 countries
Nachtigall, Daniel ; Ellis, Jane ; Errendal, Sofie
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris
OECD Publishing - Paris
2022
91 p.
sustainable development ; epidemic disease ; decarbonization ; taxation ; climate change ; public finance
OECD Environment Working Papers
191
Public finance and taxation
https://doi.org/10.1787/8f030bcc-en
English
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"This paper assesses the role of carbon pricing in a sustainable recovery from COVID-19. It tracks the policy changes in carbon pricing within OECD and G20 countries between January 2020 and August 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carbon pricing as defined here includes emissions trading schemes, fossil fuel support and carbon, fuel excise or aviation taxes. The paper also highlights the need for the recovery to be sustainable and discusses the advantages, limitations and uses of carbon pricing therein. In addition, it describes additional challenges to as well as increased rationale for carbon pricing in the pandemic. It provides evidence on the effects of carbon pricing on the challenges and discusses carbon pricing design elements to help overcome those challenges. The paper concludes that there were more policy changes with an expected negative impact on climate. However, it is likely that the impact of the climate-positive changes – which are broader in coverage and scope - will outweigh the climate-negative changes."
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