News Digest Item
01 Sep 2016

“Assign the dirt a price tag!”

Die Zeit

Representatives of industry, civil society and science call for an internationally coordinated price system for CO₂ emissions in a guest commentary in Die Zeit. The Federation of German Industries (BDI), environmental NGO Germanwatch and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) see the upcoming G20 summit in China as the ideal platform to decide a schedule to gradually introduce CO₂ prices and reduce subsidies for fossil fuels.

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