CPLC Americas Working Group Call

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• How can carbon pricing be used to enable decarbonization at scale: views from the financial sector - Mark Lewis, Chief Sustainability Strategist BNP Paribas  

Thematic Carbon pricing in the region – milestone events and updates from regional stakeholders  

• Chile, Ms. Carolina Urmeneta (Head of the Climate Change Unit of Chile’s Ministry of Environment)  

  • the domestic offset program that needs to be developed as part of the carbon tax reform  

  • status of climate change bill and its carbon pricing provisions.  

• Peru, Ms. Milagros Sandoval Diaz, (Director, Ministry of Environment)  

  • Broader discussion on article 6  

• Trinidad and Tobago, Kishan Kumarsingh, Head of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Unit, Ministry of Planning, Trinidad and Tobago  

  • developments in carbon pricing  

• Colombia, Laura Ruiz (adviser at Colombia Minster of Finance)  

  • revised NDC

  • ETS plans  

• Costa Rica, Laura Mora (Coordinator of Costa Rica national carbon footprint program)  

  • Costa Rica’s National Carbon Footprint Program & voluntary corporate action in CR

  • the LAC regional Working Group of Carbon Footprint Programs   

Carbon pricing and the private sector   

Mexico, José Ramón Ardavín-Ituarte, (participants in the ETS pilot program)    

Brazil, José Ricardo Uchôa Cavalcanti Almeida, – Diretor Presidente Copernor  

The CPLC working group calls provide an opportunity to discuss carbon pricing developments in different regions, hear from leading experts on regionally-relevant carbon pricing topics, and learn about initiatives and diverse perspectives in the region.

If you are interested in participating or speaking during a working group call, contact us at cplcsecretariat@worldbank.org.