Novel Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies have seen a first wave of deployment, driven by investments through voluntary carbon markets and by specific support policies. To sustain the momentum, a credible long-term policy path is urgently needed to lead removal technologies through the...

The EU Emissions Trading System was recently reformed to make it ‘fit for 55’ by 2030, with the cap on emissions designated to go down to zero by 2040. It is thus widely believed that the next decade will mark the ‘ETS endgame’: when supply approaches zero, the market will undergo...

Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government offices to provide loans for clean energy projects. However, both the market failures that public loan provision addresses and its role in a policy strategy that also features instruments directly addressing...

We conduct a discrete choice experiment with a sample of 6,000 German household heads to examine how fairness preferences influence the support for carbon taxes and revenue-recycling options. While it is well-known that carbon taxes are effective in reducing emissions and can be made...