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A Carbon Price Can Benefit the Poor While Reducing Emissions
Climate discussions like those we’ve just been seeing at the UN summit in Katowice, Poland tend to focus on working together to deliver existing climate commitments and raising ambition—getting countries to reduce more GHG emissions, faster. But there’s an equally important issue that gets far less attention: ensuring climate action is delivered in a way that doesn’t leave anyone behind, particularly the world’s most vulnerable people.
See Helen Mountford and Molly McGregors’ latest blog post on how carbon pricing can benefit the poor and reduce emissions.
How can carbon pricing support economic diversification in the Arab Gulf States?
The Arab Gulf States – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE –are highly vulnerable to oil price shocks due to their high economic reliance on oil and gas export revenues. Historically, oil price shocks have been a source of pressure on the Arab Gulf States economies. However, only since mid-2014 have oil prices seemed to pressure on political regimes to consider domestic economic reforms and development of alternative sources of income (i.e. economic diversification).
To avoid long-term negative implications – such as increasing total CO2 emissions and deterioration of air quality associated with increasing downstream petrochemical energy intensive industries, fossil fuel subsidy reforms, enhancing energy efficiency and the use of clean energy technologies are indeed instrumental to tackle such issues. In this article, carbon pricing is proposed as a useful instrument to complement the aforementioned tools.
Why your smartphone and acid rain should give you hope about climate change
Earlier this Fall, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the world on notice (again): Unless we make significant changes in how we get our energy and use our land, we will be committing to a future with tremendous human suffering from extreme weather, drought, and ecological damage. While the report is driving important conversations about solutions to this challenge, the average reader might feel discouraged about the changes required. Luckily, the truth is more hopeful than some recent press lets on.
See the latest from Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College, Alex Barron.
The Swedish experience of carbon taxation: Get a fossil free beer or carton of milk!
Welcome to Sweden. We can serve you a beer or a glass of milk with a very low carbon footprint, thanks to our carbon tax. This tax dates back to 1991. It was one of the earliest carbon taxes, and it is today the highest imposed by any government.
New CPLC Partner Svebio takes a deeper look at the Swedish carbon tax’s positive impact on the food industry.
Mapping Carbon Pricing Around the World
Putting a price on carbon pollution is recognized as an effective, transparent and efficient policy approach to reducing GHG emissions. Indeed, pricing carbon emissions is much more beneficial than paying its developmental, economic, and health costs! The good news is: more and more countries are taking advantage of this economic instrument and the number of carbon pricing initiatives (such as Carbon Tax or Emission Trading Scheme - ETS) has tripled in the last decade
Read Chandni Dinakaran’s blog post on how the World Bank Group is mapping carbon pricing initiatives around the world.
Paris goals can only be achieved in time with robust bottom-up action
The Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change this month published its special report on what action is required to keep global temperature increases to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But real demand for change is growing at ground level. Consumers around the world are paying greater attention to the environment and the climate, and making changes to their own lifestyles. Alexis Leroy, the CEO and Founder of Allcot Group, makes the case for bottom-up action.
Dominica: Tax Reform to Boost Climate Resilience
Dominica, a small-island state in the Caribbean, is among the countries most exposed to natural hazards. In response, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has expressed “plans to make Dominica the first climate resilient nation in the world”. This includes through strengthening the resilience of Dominica’s physical infrastructure and natural environment, but also through building greater fiscal resilience, flexibility and ability to cope with climate events and shocks. Read more in David Cal MacWilliam’s post.
The 2018 economics Nobel shows we can’t discuss economics without considering climate change
Nathaniel Keohane, Senior Vice President for Climate Change at the Environmental Defense Fund, emphasizes how, in his words, we can no longer discuss our economic future without considering the enormous costs of climate change. Building off the recent Nobel prize in economics awarded to his former teacher and colleague William Nordhaus, Keohane highlights the costs of climate change, but also the real opportunities a low-carbon economy presents. A case Nordhaus has made for the last quarter century.
