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Government revenue from carbon taxes and emissions trading (World Bank)

The money governments raised in 2025 from carbon taxes and emissions trading systems worldwide: 107 billion US dollars, about 2 percent more than in 2024 in real terms. The report says almost all of it is raised in high-income countries.

Latest value

107US$ bn

World, 2025. Version State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026 (World Bank, May 2026).

As published

“In 2025 carbon pricing revenues reached US$ 107 billion, an increase of around two percent from 2024 levels in real terms (Figure 8).”

State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026, Section 2.3, p. 25. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.

Where it comes from

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World Bank · State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026
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State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026 (World Bank, May 2026)
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https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/9ae836ed-db57-4766-92a5-4616cb1e81f9/content
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2026-10-05 (automatically), 15,253,357 bytes
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sha256 87eac710c5f118a7559aa492d59faa7c4794c4e08e22e71e1d2075712f160496ETag "fe570ff97a33de96465278b5dbba4afe" · Last-Modified Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:17:13 GMT
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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 Section 2.3, p. 25. The quote was found in the text of page 29 of the snapshot (sha256 87eac710c5f1…) before publishing.

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

  2. Value: "US$ 107 billion" is published as 107 billion US dollars for 2025.

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

What it covers

Geography
World
Basis
Revenues of governments from carbon taxes and from emissions trading systems (mostly allowance auctions) in calendar year 2025, as the World Bank estimates them. The report compares years in real terms; it does not state the price base of this figure on that page.
Unit
billion US dollars (US$ bn)