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  "title": "Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers",
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  "summary": "Efforts to control atmospheric accumulations of greenhouse gases that threaten to heat up the planet are in their infancy.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Efforts to control atmospheric accumulations of greenhouse gases that threaten to heat up the planet are in their infancy.\n- Although the IMF is not an environmental organization, environmental issues matter for its mission when they have major implications for macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy.\n- Climate change clearly passes both these tests."
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      "content": "- The publication emphasizes the intersection of climate change with macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy.\n- Core policy tools signaled by subjects and keywords include:\n  - Carbon tax\n  - Emissions trading\n  - Emissions price and SCC (social cost of carbon) and SCC estimate\n  - Climate finance\n  - Revenue and stability provisions\n- Analytic perspectives explicitly referenced:\n  - National accounts\n  - Personal income and taxes\n  - Technology impacts\n  - Sectoral actors such as firms and forest owners"
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      "content": "- Subject: Carbon tax, Emissions trading, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, National accounts, Personal income, Taxes, Technology\n- Keywords: BOOK, Carbon tax, climate finance, emission, emissions price, Emissions trading, firm, forest owner, Global, Greenhouse gas emissions, Personal income, price, revenue, SCC, SCC estimate, stability provisions\n\nInternational Monetary Fund — Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers (2012). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353933.071\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/books/issues/2016/12/31/fiscal-policy-to-mitigate-climate-change-a-guide-for-policymakers-25864"
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    "Authors: Ruud A. de Mooij, Michael Keen, Ian W.H. Parry",
    "Published: September 10, 2012",
    "Series: Books",
    "Pages: 218",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353933.071",
    "Efforts to control atmospheric accumulations of greenhouse gases that threaten to heat up the planet are in their infancy.",
    "Although the IMF is not an environmental organization, environmental issues matter for its mission when they have major implications for macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy.",
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