carbon pricing

The Committee on Climate Change says must used as part of a wider suite of policy instruments.

A joint consultation has been launched by the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The business and energy secretary believes cheap power ‘is now green power’

Only Canada and France generate more income from carbon pricing schemes than they spend on fossil fuel subsidies

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate says it could also prevent 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution

Leaders across the US and Canada have pledged to step up the use of carbon pricing as a key tool to reduce emissions. The new Carbon Pricing in the Americas co-operative framework will apply a cost of carbon to guide public investment decisions and encourage private companies to do the same through internal carbon pricing. […]

The EU should focus on carbon pricing instead of renewable subsidies to decarbonise the power sector. That’s the conclusion reached in a new study from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It points out renewable […]

EU Member States yesterday endorsed the provisional deal on reforming the EU emissions trading system (ETS) after 2020. The reforms agreed by the Council of Ambassadors earlier this month aims to help the EU to deliver on its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% before 2030. It hopes to achieve this […]

The number of carbon pricing initiatives implemented or scheduled has almost doubled in the past five years. Eight new carbon pricing schemes have been put in place since 2016 – three at a national level and five at a sub-national level, according to the World Bank. A carbon price is the amount that must be […]

Global co-operation on carbon trading could reduce the costs of climate change mitigation by 32% by 2030. That’s according to a new report by the World Bank which adds the figure could rise to more than 50% by 2050. It shows increased international carbon trading could enable large-scale emission reductions at much lower costs based on […]