Why it pays for Singapore to be much more ambitious in raising carbon tax

Thought Leadership

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Speaker: Visiting Professor Viond Thomas 16 Feb 2022

Singapore faces constraints in switching to cleaner forms of energy, which is all the more reason it should scale up carbon taxes, writes Visiting Professor Vinod Thomas from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS.

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