The idea of taxing carbon emissions raises a host of questions, even to climate advocates who recognize the need for new, creative and more effective energy policies. This page takes you to five key subject areas:
- How far and how fast will carbon taxes drive down carbon dioxide emissions?
- How would carbon taxes differ from carbon "cap-and-trade" systems?
- Implementation — nitty-gritty of how U.S. carbon taxes would be administered
- Policies to protect poor and middle-income households from higher fuel prices due to carbon taxes
- Border Tax Adjustments — how to treat imports from non-carbon-taxing countries
Here’s a link to our slideshow — a PowerPoint with some 40 slides covering many basics, especially the need for more than traditional remedies of energy-efficiency mandates and renewable-energy subsidies. (Please allow a little time for loading and page-changing.)
We update these pages continually, so please keep checking back. Please also comment on them to our blog or via a note to info@carbontax.org. Include your suggestions for future issue papers. Thank you.
