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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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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