Carbon pricing—putting a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—is one of the tools available to shape climate strategies and put the world on track to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. Climate Focus is proud to have worked with experts from The World Bank to develop the 2022 edition of State and Trends...Read More
According to Wikipedia, Carbon (from Latin: carbo “coal”) is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon makes up only about 0.025 percent of Earth’s crust. Three isotopes of Carbon Three isotopes occur naturally, 12C and 13C being stable, while 14C is a radionuclide, decaying with a half-life of about 5,730 years. Carbon is one of the few elements known since...Read More