Carbon Pricing (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carbon pricing is the generic term for placing a price on carbon through either subsidies, a carbon tax, or an emissions trading system. The increasing amount of carbon dioxide being released in the atmosphere causes climate change, according to the consensus theory of anthropogenic global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions result from fossil fuel-based electricity generation. Associating an approximate cost to damage such as increasing extreme weather, carbon pricing may be used as an incentive to cut carbon emissions and find further support for utilizing existing and discovering new low-emission technologies.