Carbon Conundrum: How to Save Climate Change Policy from ...
Booth, Philip / Stagnaro, Carlo
Politicians around the world have signed up to achieving carbon net zero by 2050, putting environmental taxes and subsidies at the heart of energy policy. This has created a complex and costly merry-go-round in which even fossil fuels end up being subsidised, a chaotic system that is wide open to regulatory capture - and to an ideologically motivated agenda. Authors Philip Booth and Carlo Stagnaro argue for a rational 'polluter pays' system of...