Accelerating ambitious carbon pricing
There’s a growing consensus that carbon pricing is a flexible and cost-efficient tool that sends a signal for governments and private sector need to transition to a lower carbon future. However, despite the widespread agreement on the need and benefits of carbon pricing instruments, the uptake of carbon pricing around the world does not align with this assertion. To achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the international community needs to ramp up climate ambition, and carbon pricing has a critical role to play in this process. To address this, CPLC held a stakeholder dialogue, Accelerating Ambitious Carbon Pricing, at the UN Climate Action Summit to discuss and highlight concrete actions needed for governments, private sector actors and other stakeholders to fully implement carbon pricing measures. Specifically, the focus of the session was on what priority actions are needed to strengthen institutional capacities to put a price on carbon as well as to facilitate the use of carbon pricing to enable a carbon-neutral industry transition.