Paying The Price For The Future We Want - istockanalyst.

Posted -  June 19, 2012 06:36 PM - By Min Zhu - istockanalyst.

.......First, they can play a key role in raising badly needed revenues. In the United States, for example, a carbon tax of about $25 per ton of CO2—which would add 22 cents to a gallon of gasoline—could bring in about 1 percent of GDP, or over $1 trillion over a decade. And, as discussed in an IMF-World Bank report for the G-20 last year, charges on international aviation and maritime emissions could meet about a quarter of the commitment developed countries have made to mobilize $100 billion a year for climate finance by 2020.......

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