Britain maintains carbon tax freeze until April 2021

Britain's carbon tax will continue to be frozen at 2015 levels of 18 pounds per tonne until April 2021, Chancellor Philip Hammond said on Wednesday, while presenting the government's Autumn Statement. Britain introduced the tax in April 2013 as a part of its efforts to reduce emissions and meet its climate targets, by making polluting fossil fuel power production more expensive. There had been speculation prior to the statement that the chancellor could scrap the tax, which think tank the Policy