## Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers

_Books, September 10, 2012_

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## Bibliographic details
- 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

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### Overview
- 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.
- Climate change clearly passes both these tests.

### Key findings and analytical focus
- The publication emphasizes the intersection of climate change with macroeconomic performance and fiscal policy.
- Core policy tools signaled by subjects and keywords include:
  - Carbon tax
  - Emissions trading
  - Emissions price and SCC (social cost of carbon) and SCC estimate
  - Climate finance
  - Revenue and stability provisions
- Analytic perspectives explicitly referenced:
  - National accounts
  - Personal income and taxes
  - Technology impacts
  - Sectoral actors such as firms and forest owners

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Carbon tax, Emissions trading, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, National accounts, Personal income, Taxes, Technology
- 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

*International Monetary Fund — Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers (2012). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616353933.071*

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