Foreign Practices and Experience Reference of Carbon Pricing
Many jurisdictions in the world use carbon pricing to promote carbon emission reduction and have achieved some progresses,and their experience includes:focusing on the coordination between carbon pricing instruments and with other taxes;promoting carbon pricing reform according to the principle of gradual progress;involving stakeholders in the reform and releasing the carbon pricing reform plan in advance.In China,the current carbon pricing instrument is emissions trading system,which has played a positive role in reducing carbon emission,but there are still some areas that need to be improved.Based on referring to foreign experience,the paper puts forward policy recommendations for further improving China's carbon pricing instruments,including enriching explicit carbon pricing instruments,optimizing fuel consumption tax and promoting supporting reform of multiple tax categories,and gradually expanding the application scope of the emissions trading system.