World Bank: Carbon pricing revenues hit $100bn in 2023, but prices remain unaligned with climate goals

Cecilia Keating
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New analysis reveals 75 carbon pricing regimes generated $104bn last year, with more than half of revenues going towards climate and nature-related programmes

Revenues from carbon pricing schemes topped $100bn for the first-time last year, but carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes around the world "continue to fall short" of the price signals required to...

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