Emissions-weighted carbon price
What you should know about this indicator
- This data primarily focuses on economic instruments targeting carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions.
- In some cases these instruments also cover other greenhouse gases. However, any pricing mechanisms that specifically target non-CO₂ gases (such as methane or nitrous oxide) are not included.
- A country is considered to have a carbon tax or emissions trading system if at least one IPCC sector or gas is covered by the instrument. These instruments do not need to cover all sectors within the economy for this to apply.
- Only countries with a carbon tax at the national level are included.
- For each country, researchers calculate an emissions-weighted carbon price for the economy. To do this, they rely on two metrics:
- Carbon prices applied at the sectoral level (e.g. electricity, or road transport).
- Each sector's contribution to a country's CO₂ emissions (e.g. what percentage of a country's emissions come from electricity, or road transport). They then weight each sector's carbon price by the relevant sector's contribution to CO₂ emissions, and aggregate these figures to get an economy-wide weighted carbon price.
- A full technical note on the methodology is provided by the authors in this report.
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“Data Page: Emissions-weighted carbon price”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser (2023) - “CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions”. Data adapted from Resources for the Future. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/emissions-weighted-carbon-price [online resource]
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Dolphin and Xiahou (2022) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
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Dolphin and Xiahou (2022) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Emissions-weighted carbon price” [dataset]. Resources for the Future, “Emissions-weighted Carbon Price” [original data]. Retrieved October 4, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/emissions-weighted-carbon-price