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Aligning climate policy with finance ministers' G20 agenda

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There is no longer a choice between climate policy and no climate policy. G20 finance ministers have to play a key role in implementing smart climate policies like carbon pricing. Yet they remain reluctant to take advantage of the merits of carbon pricing for sound fiscal policy.

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The authors thank K. Seyboth and J. Edenhofer for valuable comments and O. Bois von Kursk for compiling Fig. 2.

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  1. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, EUREF-Campus 19, Berlin, 10829, Germany

    Ottmar Edenhofer & Brigitte Knopf

  2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research, Telegrafenberg 31, Potsdam, 14473, Germany

    Ottmar Edenhofer

  3. Technical University Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 152, Berlin, 10623, Germany

    Ottmar Edenhofer

  4. Centre for International Governance Innovation, 67 Erb Street W, Waterloo, N2L 6C2, ON, Canada

    Céline Bak

  5. The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, 20036, DC, USA

    Amar Bhattacharya

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Edenhofer, O., Knopf, B., Bak, C. et al. Aligning climate policy with finance ministers' G20 agenda. Nature Clim Change 7, 463–465 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3331

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