Carbon Pricing in France & Germany (cepInput)

Dr. Götz Reichert, LL.M.

Dr. Martin Menner

Svenja Schwind

The pricing of CO₂ emissions in the transport and building sectors dominates the climate policy debate both in France and in Germany. With a cepInput, cep and cepFrance jointly analyse and evaluate strategies and instruments of carbon pricing in both countries, highlighting differences and similarities.

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France and Germany have introduced carbon pricing to reduce CO₂ emissions by fossil fuels in the transport and building sectors. While CO₂ emissions in the transport and building sectors are priced in France by a carbon tax since 2014, in November 2019 Germany decided to establish a national emissions trading system starting in 2021.

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