Health co-benefits and trade-offs of carbon pricing: a narrative synthesis

Soledad Cuevas, Daniel Nachtigall, Aimee Aguilar Jaber, Kristine Belesova, Jane Falconer, Andy Haines, Tamzin Reynolds, Tobias Magnus Schuster, Sarah Whitmee, & Rosemary Green

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This systematic review, published in Climate Policy, shows that there are opportunities to design carbon pricing to improve health outcomes, including through targeted use of revenues to improve food security, subsidise healthier diets or promote active transport. The study highlights that implementing carbon pricing as part of broader policy mixes with a focus on equity, is crucial to achieving health co-benefits.