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Share of global greenhouse gas emissions covered by a carbon price (World Bank)

The share of the world's greenhouse gas emissions covered by a direct carbon price, a carbon tax or an emissions trading system, through the 87 such policies in force on 1 April 2026. Coverage says how much of the world's emissions face a price, not how high that price is.

Latest value

29%

World, 2026. Version State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026 (World Bank, May 2026).

As published

“Direct carbon pricing covers 29 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through 87 implemented policies.”

State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026, Key messages, item 1, p. 5. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.

Where it comes from

Producer
World Bank · State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026
Version
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026 (World Bank, May 2026)
File
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/9ae836ed-db57-4766-92a5-4616cb1e81f9/content
Fetched
2026-10-05 (automatically), 15,253,357 bytes
Fingerprint
sha256 87eac710c5f118a7559aa492d59faa7c4794c4e08e22e71e1d2075712f160496ETag "fe570ff97a33de96465278b5dbba4afe" · Last-Modified Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:17:13 GMT
Copies
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Cite the producer
World Bank. 2026. State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026. Washington. World Bank, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-2348-0. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.

What was done to it

  1. Quoted from Key messages, item 1, p. 5. The quote was found in the text of page 9 of the snapshot (sha256 87eac710c5f1…) before publishing.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/literature.py · code sha256 a5b5e1344e63f00f… · inputs 87eac710c5f1…

  2. Value: "29 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions" is published as 29 percent, dated 2026 (the policies in force on 1 April 2026).

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/literature.py · code sha256 a5b5e1344e63f00f… · inputs 87eac710c5f1…

What it covers

Geography
World
Basis
Carbon taxes and emissions trading systems implemented as of 1 April 2026 (the report's data cut-off), as a share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Indirect carbon pricing (fuel taxes) and carbon crediting are not included.
Unit
percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (%)