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Implement policies aimed at combating climate change without accompanying them with incentives, price interventions or specific tax policies it could prove essentially useless:is what emerges from new peer-reviewed research led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and published in magazine Science.The study used an innovative approach and a new database to analyze more than 20 years of climate policies, finding that only 63 cases out of approximately 1,500 were actually effective in significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.«Our data shows that many policies do not necessarily equate to better results:what is fundamental, however, is the right mix of measures", explain the authors of the study. The research used a new databases of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and a innovative approach that combined machine learning methods with...