ECB paper analyses carbon pricing schemes

Rising compliance costs can push firms away from green innovation, paper finds

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Carbon pricing mechanisms contribute to lower carbon emissions, research published by the European Central Bank finds.

Maria Cecilia Bustamante and Francesca Zucchi analyse the trade-offs involved in carbon pricing schemes and how firms adapt to them. They conclude the schemes have a positive impact, but can have unanticipated consequences when it becomes costlier for businesses to comply with them.

When that happens, it tilts polluting firms’ investment mix “towards short-term abatement and

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