While Article 6 of the Paris Agreement remains in negotiating limbo, the text that emerged from Madrid for Article 6.2 gives a very strong indication …
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The future of carbon pricing
At this time of the year I usually review the progress in implementing carbon pricing around the world, but it seems timely to look more …
Looking again at carbon pricing
It is Climate Week in New York and among the police barricades at the UN, the protests and traffic there is still the opportunity for …
The potential for rapid energy transition in North America
Over recent weeks and months there has been considerable discussion in the USA and Canada on clean energy transition pathways, carbon pricing and the Paris …
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Carbon pricing policy in 2018. Was it a year of progress??
Carbon pricing remains at the centre of most government policy discussions on climate change, but in a year which saw the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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After San Francisco . . . .
In mid-September the climate change focused world turned its attention to San Francisco to attend, watch, listen and participate in the myriad of events surrounding …
Carbon market developments in 2017
Looking back at my 2017 post on developments in 2016, it becomes clear that the past twelve months have been more consolidation than progress in terms …
Applying Pigouvian charges
A recent article in the Guardian argues that fossil fuels receive about $5 trillion per year globally of unseen benefits, representing some 6.5% of global GDP. …
Carbon pricing in 2016
Given that 2016 marked the first full year of climate policy development after COP21 in Paris and was the year in which leaders lined up …
Carbon pricing in 2015
Perhaps more than any other aspect of the climate agenda, carbon pricing took a major step forward in 2015. This was supported by many initiatives, …
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