Getting serious about decarbonisation would be more costly for governments than many fiscal scenarios would have you believe. Of course, the net impact on the public finances would depend on how governments chose to accommodate these additional fiscal pressures. But all else equal, a legacy of the green transition would be deteriorations in budget balances and higher government debt.
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