News Digest Item
30 Jun 2017

“Why climate policy matters for the G20 finance ministers’ agenda”

Nature Climate Change / MCC

Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers’ agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), write in an article in Nature Climate Change. “Finance ministers should consider the merits of carbon pricing for sound fiscal policy and thereby stimulate investments in carbon-free infrastructure,” writes MCC in a press release on the article.

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