Carbon pricing instruments covered almost ** billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent as of April 2025, representing around ** percent of global GHG emissions. The share of global GHG emissions covered by carbon pricing mechanisms, like carbon taxes and emissions trading systems, has increased considerably since 2005, the year the EU ETS became the world's first major carbon market. As of 2025, there were **carbon pricing mechanisms in operation worldwide.
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