IMF calls on governments to impose carbon taxes or face ‘unsustainable’ fiscal hit

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The fiscal cost in effect of tackling climate change could put public debt in large carbon-emitting countries on an “unsustainable” path without a tax on pollution, the IMF has warned.

In a chapter addressing climate change, published as part of the fund’s flagship 2023 Fiscal…