<p>Carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems are policy tools. Regulation is a policy tool. Picking winners such as wind and solar to incent via tax breaks and feed-in tariffs are policy tools. Picking losers such as coal to eliminate is a policy tool. The answer won’t be either taxes or regulation, but both. This is a podcast version of <a href="https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/pricing-carbon-is-essential-but-inadequate-7fd21302a932">the article of the same name</a> on the TFIE Medium publication.</p>

Carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems are policy tools. Regulation is a policy tool. Picking winners such as wind and solar to incent via tax breaks and feed-in tariffs are policy tools. Picking losers such as coal to eliminate is a policy tool. The answer won’t be either taxes or regulation, but both. This is a podcast version of the article of the same name on the TFIE Medium publication.

<p>Carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems are policy tools. Regulation is a policy tool. Picking winners such as wind and solar to incent via tax breaks and feed-in tariffs are policy tools. Picking losers such as coal to eliminate is a policy tool. The answer won’t be either taxes or regulation, but both. This is a podcast version of <a href="https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/pricing-carbon-is-essential-but-inadequate-7fd21302a932" rel="noopener noreferrer">the article of the same name</a> on the TFIE Medium publication.</p>

TFIE029 CT014: Pricing carbon is essential but inadequate

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TFIE029 CT014: Pricing carbon is essential but inadequate

TFIE029 CT014: Pricing carbon is essential but inadequate