ClimateWire: “Denver passed a sales tax for climate. Is it working?”

By Avery Ellfeldt

According to Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, there are the two primary avenues cities have long used to raise revenue for particular investments: increasing the budget by raising taxes, or borrowing money through issuing municipal bonds.

What’s new, Wagner said, is politicians having the “gumption to come out and say we want to do something about climate change. And in order for us to act, we need to raise the funds. And then very directly calling it a climate tax, or a green fund, or a climate bond, or a green bond.”

In: “Denver passed a sales tax for climate. Is it working?” by Avery Ellfeldt, E&E News/ClimateWire (16 September 2022).

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