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Duty down under

As Australia anticipates its carbon tax, Anna Petherick contends that of the world's dirtiest economies, this nation is leading the way in the design of policies to price emissions.

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Figure 1: The expected inflationary impact of the new carbon tax on the Australian economy, in the context of other perturbations in recent history.

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Petherick, A. Duty down under. Nature Clim Change 2, 20–21 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1339

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