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 …
Category: Carbon tax
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, …
