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lobal leaders
including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have called on countries and companies to put a
price on carbon to speed up efforts to fight climate change.
In what has been described as an unprecedented alliance
ahead of the Paris climate summit starting next month, the leaders said pricing
emissions was needed to steer the global economy to a low-carbon future that
would avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Leaders of the IMF, World Bank and Germany's Angela Merkel call for price on carbon.”
