Fetches the Dolphin-Pollitt-Newbery World Carbon Pricing Database
for one country. Covers national-level carbon pricing from 1989
to present, with CO2 tax and ETS instruments harmonised across
200+ jurisdictions.
Usage
co2_rff_pricing(country, version = "v2026.1", refresh = FALSE)
Arguments
- country
Character. Country name using underscores
(e.g. "United_Kingdom", "Germany", "Antigua_and_Barbuda").
- version
Character. Dataset version folder. Default
"v2026.1".
- refresh
Re-download? Default FALSE.
Value
A data frame of annual carbon prices by IPCC sector code.
References
Dolphin, G. G., Pollitt, M. G. and Newbery, D. M. (2020).
"The political economy of carbon pricing: a panel analysis."
Oxford Economic Papers, 72(2), 472–500.
doi:10.1093/oep/gpz042
Examples
# \donttest{
op <- options(carbondata.cache_dir = tempdir())
uk <- co2_rff_pricing("United_Kingdom")
#> ℹ Downloading RFF World Carbon Pricing Database for United_Kingdom...
options(op)
# }