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''Tax''.
Contagion is the risk that the failure of one participant in financial markets might have widespread secondary adverse effects throughout financial markets, the wider economy or both.  


Carbon taxes are ones designed to reduce amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide.


Examples include taxes on motor vehicles and their fuel, especially when higher rates of tax are levied on relatively more polluting products and activities.
==See also==
 
*[[Systemic risk]]
 
== See also ==
* [[Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism]]
* [[Carbon credits]]
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Renewables]]
* [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]
* [[Tax]]
 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Ethics_and_corporate_governance]]

Revision as of 19:51, 4 August 2016

Contagion is the risk that the failure of one participant in financial markets might have widespread secondary adverse effects throughout financial markets, the wider economy or both.


See also