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[[File:Carbon-Market-Watch_cement-industry-report-cover.png|thumb|Thumbnailed image|Carbon Market Watch cement industry report cover, in 2016.]] | [[File:Carbon-Market-Watch_cement-industry-report-cover.png|thumb|Thumbnailed image|Carbon Market Watch cement industry report cover, in 2016.]] | ||
Despite the fact that carbon pricing has been the main and most ambitious undertaking to mitigate climate change since the beginning of our century; it is widely unknown or misunderstood. It must primary be due to both of its confusing different forms, but also its tremendous complexity that never stopped to evolve since it was first implemented in 2005 in the European Union (EU). What this page wishes to propose is not only an accessible description of what carbon pricing is, without getting lost in the economic gibberish; our goal here was to analyse the effects, both positive and negative, that carbon princing is said to have on citizens, companies, governments and of course, climate (through CO2 emissions cut). | |||
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To explore this topic, we answered the 3 simple following questions: | |||
==What is carbon pricing and what concepts stand behind it?== | ==What is carbon pricing and what concepts stand behind it?== |