G20 finance ministers back carbon pricing as key tool to tackle climate crisis, but climate funding moves prove elusive

Cecilia Keating
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At G20 meeting in Venice, finance ministers conclude that climate pricing is among raft of tools that can be deployed to tackle climate change

G20 finance ministers have collectively expressed support for the role carbon pricing could play in tackling the climate crisis in a rare show of unity for international decarbonisation policy. In a...

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