National Tax Code vs Climate Commitments

This diagnostic tool is built for finance ministries. It tests whether a national tax code supports the climate commitments the country has signed. Our models read the body of fiscal law: income tax, VAT, customs, excise, and carbon levies. They read it statute by statute and clause by clause. They weigh each material provision against the country’s stated targets.

The tool sorts each provision by how it relates to those commitments: complementary, countervailing, overlapping, or redundant. It then maps how the provisions interact. It flags where one law’s relief cancels another law’s charge on the same source of emissions.

Each finding comes with the strongest case for leaving things as they are. Reviewers weigh that case before they recommend change. One coherence score and one letter grade sum up the findings. Each finding is weighted by how much it matters and by how confident the tool is in it.

The tool ranks reforms by impact and by how achievable they are. In the built-in simulator, policy teams assemble a package of changes and set how strong each change is. The grade, the distance to target, and the emissions path move in real time.