Comparison of Approaches to Carbon Pricing

7-page memo on market-based climate change mitigation policies. After comparing different approaches from around the world, the memo recommends for the U.S. to adopt a federal cap-and-trade system for the electricity generation sector and a federal tax on GHG emissions from industrial buildings, transportation fuels, fuels used for heating and cooling, and imported goods.
Memo Writing
Author

Linus Ghanadan

Published

April 27, 2022

This paper was written for a class on Energy & Environmental Policy that I took at the University of Maryland in Spring 2022.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{ghanadan2022,
  author = {Ghanadan, Linus},
  title = {Comparison of {Approaches} to {Carbon} {Pricing}},
  date = {2022-04-27},
  url = {https://linusghanadan.github.io/blog/carbon-pricing-post/},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Ghanadan, Linus. 2022. “Comparison of Approaches to Carbon Pricing.” April 27, 2022. https://linusghanadan.github.io/blog/carbon-pricing-post/.