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Energy policy: Push renewables to spur carbon pricing

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Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies, urge Gernot Wagner and colleagues.

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  1. Thomas Sterner: Thomas Sterner is professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and senior contributing economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, USA.

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  1. Gernot Wagner is lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, New York, USA.,

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  2. Tomas Kåberger is professor of industrial energy policy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.,

    Tomas Kåberger

  3. Susanna Olai is an environmental economist at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.,

    Susanna Olai

  4. Michael Oppenheimer is professor of geosciences and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.,

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  5. Katherine Rittenhouse is an economic analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

    Katherine Rittenhouse

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Wagner, G., Kåberger, T., Olai, S. et al. Energy policy: Push renewables to spur carbon pricing. Nature 525, 27–29 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/525027a

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