Could a ‘carbon coin’ solve the climate crisis?

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What if there was a way we could fund the climate transition by creating a new global currency, off the books of national and corporate accounts?

The currency could be used to reward each ton of carbon abated, whether via cleaner energy, cleaner business or direct carbon removal and sequestration. Such a regime could not only turbocharge public and private climate investment. It could also pay to protect ecosystems, which today struggle to find funding. This regime would also be politically transformative. Corporate boards and policy makers could shift from fighting over funding to planning action.

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