Full Title: How Carbon Pricing Could Span the United States and North America
Author(s): Gwynne Taraska and Howard Marano
Publisher(s): Center for American Progress
Publication Date: November 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):
Carbon pricing is flourishing in North America. Canada, for example, has announced a
national price to take effect in 2018, while Mexico has announced a 12-month cap-and-trade
pilot that will evolve into a national program. These developments join a network
of established pricing instruments, including a carbon tax in Mexico and subnational
systems in California, the northeast United States, and several Canadian provinces.
Once unlikely, it now seems probable that carbon pricing will proliferate not only across
Canada and Mexico but also in the United States. Carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs
have found a diverse set of U.S. proponents, including from the private sector and
from across the political spectrum, who view carbon pricing instruments as effective
and effcient methods of curbing greenhouse gas emissions and the disruptive effects of
climate change.