Calling for Business Perspectives – Survey on Carbon Pricing Revenues

Calling for Business Perspectives – Survey on Carbon Pricing Revenues

 

The Generation Foundation has teamed up with Ecofys in a research partnership, the Carbon Pricing Unlocked partnership (CPU), to tackle carbon pricing from new and diverse angles.

With this survey, the CPU team would like to get companies’ views on different approaches to use revenues generated by carbon pricing mechanisms, i.e. carbon taxes and Emissions Trading Systems (ETS). As with any policy based instrument, acceptance and support by entities covered by the policy is critical for the success and sustainability of the policy. The appropriate use of revenues from carbon taxes and Emission Trading Systems (ETS) that would be supported by covered entities and result in increased emission reductions could help to greatly increase global ambition on climate action.

Therefore, the CPU team is seeking to identify the relationship between how revenues from carbon pricing mechanisms are used and the acceptability of different revenue recycling approaches to covered entities in one of the work streams of the partnership.  They would like to test their conclusions and considerations on the impacts of various revenues recycling approaches established through the literature and case studies through a wide reaching online survey. The results of this survey will help them understand how businesses see climate policy and carbon revenue use impacts. They are also interested in identifying preferences for carbon revenue use in different economic contexts. Their findings will be published in a report at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November 2017.

You will need approximately 10-15 min to complete the survey.

The survey is available here until 15 September 2017: https://s.chkmkt.com/?e=90852&h=2322A39A463A01D&l=en

Find out more about the Carbon Pricing Unlocked Partnership, the Generation Foundation and Ecofys.

UNFCCC & CTX ‘Climate Finance’ Link Goes Live!

UNFCCC & CTX ‘Climate Finance’ Link Goes Live!

Making Use of UN-Certified Offsets

(CTX) has begun listing UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) certified emission reduction (CER) credits on its global voluntary exchange. Engaged with a global audience for almost a decade in the fight against climate change, CTX encourages and facilitates the purchase and retirement by businesses and brokers of carbon credits from many hundreds of projects worldwide.

Climate finance is a multi-billion-dollar solution to funding projects that reduce or sequester CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the World Bank provides over USD 10 billion each year to projects that increase resilience to climate change and is a major supporter of the UN CDM process.

Now any company, from small business to large corporation, can add UN CERs to build an offset portfolio online; perform full due diligence online; demonstrate competitive, transparent pricing; and purchase securely in real time with zero delivery risk.

Wayne Sharpe, CEO and Founder of CTX said: “Since its launch CTX has facilitated millions of tonnes of offset purchases certified by the major international carbon standards. Many businesses wish to offset using UN certified credits but have lacked the confidence to do so via the opaque and sometimes ‘dark over the counter’ market.”

“Surely a company wanting to offset can’t be happy paying up to 10 times more because the OTC broker has a ‘good story’? We’re delighted that CTX will address this and help to grow the market for transparent, cost effective climate finance and carbon neutrality, either directly or via credible contracted CTX brokers.”

UNFCCC senior executive Niclas Svenningsen said: “The CTX agreement will provide a new, global and much needed distribution outlet for project originators and developers under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism – CDM – to sell and monetize their CERs.”

In support of this new strategic partnership, until 31 October 2017 the CTX platform is free to join and corporate clients need no registry account to trade UN CERs, 24/7 via any Internet connection, with fully secure, fast, efficient, low-cost clearance and settlement.

Most exciting is that for project originators (sellers) fees are only 2 per cent, meaning buyers know that the projects they buy from receive 98 per cent of the proceeds of sale.

Under the Clean Development Mechanism, projects in developing countries earn a saleable credit for each tonne of greenhouse gas they reduce or avoid. The incentive has led to the registration of more than 8,000 projects and programmes in 111 countries and the issuance of more than 1.8 billion CERs.