Emission taxes may undermine corporate investment and do little for the environment - CEO North America

Emission taxes may undermine corporate investment and do little for the environment - CEO North America

As the search for climate solutions grows more urgent, the World Bank as of mid-2025 registered 43 carbon tax initiatives worldwide, at both national and regional levels. A decade earlier, only a dozen countries, mostly in northern Europe, had them. Even today, neither the U.S. nor China has adopted a carbon tax; in total, only 5.6% of estimated greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are covered by them. But in deciding to impose taxes on emissions …