Communications Earth & Environment (Feb 2022)

The mining industry as a net beneficiary of a global tax on carbon emissions

  • Benjamin Cox,
  • Sally Innis,
  • Nadja C. Kunz,
  • John Steen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00346-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Global carbon taxation would provide a net economic benefit to the mining industry by raising demand in metals and minerals, in contrast to more energy-intensive industries for replaceable commodities, suggests a financial model analysis of the carbon tax costs for various sectors.