WRI
A Carbon Price Can Benefit the Poor While ...

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.

Dr Aisha Al-Sarihi
How can carbon pricing support economic ...

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.

How can carbon pricing support economic diversification in the Arab Gulf States?
Alexandre Kossoy
Climate change threats global development – ...

To address the global development risks posed by climate change, a major technological shift leading to a substantial reduction in the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be necessary. In parallel, the substantial global economic and development distortions - that lead to inequality - do not enable the technological and financial transfers needed for a sustainable and equitable global economy. This brings us to a fundamental question:  when climate change only imposes an additional threat of unseen scale, how can we change the economic status-quo?

Climate change threats global development – what's the role of carbon pricing?
Statoil
Carbon pricing leads to emission reductions

Statoil has been operating in a market where an external carbon price has existed since the early 1990s. Due to CO2 tax and other regulatory measures the oil and gas industry in Norway has adopted emission-reduction measures corresponding to more than five million tonnes of CO2 per annum since 1996. Consequently, Norwegian oil and gas production is in the global premier division for low GHG emissions and the average amount emitted per unit produced is about half the world average.

Carbon pricing leads to emission reductions
Dominik Englert
Three reasons why maritime transport must act ...

Several key global players are now calling on the maritime sector to challenge the status quo and limit its climate impact. From our perspective, we see at least three major reasons that can explain why emissions from maritime transport are becoming a global priority.

Three reasons why maritime transport must act on climate change

Gearing Up for Change: Challenges faced by Indian Private Sector as they take on Carbon Pricing

Over the past few years, there has been a groundswell of support for carbon pricing - not only by governments, but increasingly by the private sector. As of 2017, almost 1400 companies worldwide are embedding an internal carbon price into their business strategies, up from 140 in 2014.

Building on this theme, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) and its partners, World Resources Institute (WRI), CDP, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) joined forces with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to convene a private sector roundtable in the margins of the first International Research Conference on Carbon Pricing on February 14-15, 2019 in New Delhi, India.

Learn more about the key takeaways from the discussion.

Four provinces outperformed the rest, all while pricing carbon pollution

Opponents of carbon pollution pricing have had a busy year, incessantly warning of the severe economic damage such policies will purportedly cause.

Thankfully, proponents of clean growth have had a busy year too. Alberta wrapped up its consultation process on output-based allocations for large industrial emitters, Manitoba and Nova Scotia announced new carbon pricing systems, and the federal government took steps to implement a pan-Canadian backstop for carbon pricing.

Read the full op-ed from CPLC Partner Pembina Institute’s Maximilian Kniewasser and Julia-Maria Becker.

Learn How to Manage GHG Emissions

The George Washington University, as a member of the CPLC, offers a unique graduate-level program in GHG Management. And it’s available online so you can earn your Certificate in GHG Management regardless of your location. In four online semester-length courses world experts offer comprehensive hands-on training that prepares you to begin your GHG management career immediately. And you can complete the program in less than one year.

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?

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

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.

Mapping Carbon Pricing Around the World

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.

The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition brings together leaders from government, private sector, academia, and civil society to expand the use of carbon pricing policies.

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