On October 3-4, 2018, the Global Maritime Forum organized its inaugural Annual Summit in Hong Kong. Opened by Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Ms Carrie Lam, the Summit focused on three topics of major relevance for the shipping industry: decarbonization, digitalization and protections. Additionally, a statement signed by 34 shipping CEOs was released calling for enhanced climate action under the International Maritime Organization, including the use of carbon pricing.
Building on the work of Smith students and faculty—as well as recommendations of the college’s Study Group on Climate Change—Breanna Parker designed a carbon pricing strategy that is part of a toolkit being distributed by the national Carbon Pricing in Higher Education Working Group.
The toolkit—developed by Smith, Yale, Swarthmore and other colleges in collaboration with Second Nature and the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition—includes case studies and recommendations on how colleges and universities can put a price tag on carbon emissions to demonstrate the environmental costs of specific products and technologies.
ASU Now spoke to Mick Dalrymple, director of University Sustainability Practices and deputy sustainability operations officer at Arizona State University, to discuss the consequences of the IPCC Report and what ASU is doing to reduce its carbon footprint.
William Nordhaus has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nordhaus, now Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, suggested incorporating into economic models the costs of carbon dioxide emissions as early as 1975. He developed influential models to analyze the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. His work provided a basis for the United States’ Federal estimate of the social cost of carbon initiated under President George W. Bush and completed under President Obama. Social cost of carbon estimates are now used by governments around the world and Nordhaus’s DICE model is at the core of much of the IPCC’s analysis on benefits and costs. In 2014, Professor Nordhaus led the development of Yale’s carbon charge, an internal revenue-neutral carbon pricing system that covers about 70% of the university’s building-related emissions.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has become the first multilateral development institution to disclose climate-related risk under the guidelines of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), joining a number of entities that are taking steps to identify and mitigate climate-related financial risk. The disclosure, made in IFC’s 2018 Annual Report, signals a growing momentum for climate-related disclosures.
On October 3-4, 2018, the Global Maritime Forum organized its inaugural Annual Summit in Hong Kong. Opened by Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Ms Carrie Lam, the Summit focused on three topics of major relevance for the shipping industry: decarbonization, digitalization and protections. Additionally, a statement signed by 34 shipping CEOs was released calling for enhanced climate action under the International Maritime Organization, including the use of carbon pricing.
Building on the work of Smith students and faculty—as well as recommendations of the college’s Study Group on Climate Change—Breanna Parker designed a carbon pricing strategy that is part of a toolkit being distributed by the national Carbon Pricing in Higher Education Working Group.
The toolkit—developed by Smith, Yale, Swarthmore and other colleges in collaboration with Second Nature and the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition—includes case studies and recommendations on how colleges and universities can put a price tag on carbon emissions to demonstrate the environmental costs of specific products and technologies.
William Nordhaus has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics. Nordhaus, now Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, suggested incorporating into economic models the costs of carbon dioxide emissions as early as 1975. He developed influential models to analyze the costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. His work provided a basis for the United States’ Federal estimate of the social cost of carbon initiated under President George W. Bush and completed under President Obama. Social cost of carbon estimates are now used by governments around the world and Nordhaus’s DICE model is at the core of much of the IPCC’s analysis on benefits and costs. In 2014, Professor Nordhaus led the development of Yale’s carbon charge, an internal revenue-neutral carbon pricing system that covers about 70% of the university’s building-related emissions.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has become the first multilateral development institution to disclose climate-related risk under the guidelines of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), joining a number of entities that are taking steps to identify and mitigate climate-related financial risk. The disclosure, made in IFC’s 2018 Annual Report, signals a growing momentum for climate-related disclosures.
Today, at the Higher Education Leadership On Carbon Pricing event, a Global Climate Action Summit affiliate event, the Carbon Pricing in Higher Education Working Group released a toolkit that provides resources for other schools exploring internal carbon prices.
Today, the full agenda has been released for the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2018 (LACCW2018), which is being convened from 20–23 August in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The event – which lands three weeks ahead of both the Global Climate Action Summit in California and New York Climate Week – will be instrumental in demonstrating that there is genuine international support for stepping-up climate action by mobilizing actors across the Latin America & Caribbean region.
UKRGASBANK became the first partner from Ukraine to join the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, a community of climate leaders brought together with the goal of putting in place effective carbon pricing policies that maintain competitiveness, create jobs, encourage innovation, and deliver meaningful emissions reductions.
At the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition’s (CPLC) third High Level Assembly, the World Bank Group announced a High-Level Leadership Forum on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness that will convene private sector leaders around competitiveness concerns that have tended to inhibit the wider uptake of carbon pricing.
Canada, March 15, 2018 — Canadian companies, partners in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, came together to share their past experiences and lessons learned around carbon pricing implementation in the The Role of Carbon Pricing in a Low-Carbon Transition report. Presenting a collective of companies from various sectors, the report includes best practices for the private sector making the transition to a low-carbon economy and some recommendations for the continued development of carbon policies in coming months.
World’s First International Research Conference on Carbon Pricing Set for January 2019
Convened by the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, the conference aims to drive innovative research and analysis from academics and practitioners on the effective design and implementation of carbon pricing policies
Public and private sector organizations and companies are invited to help shape and drive climate action at the first Africa Climate Week, 9-13 April 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya.
We are pleased to announce that, as of today, Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) is now Verra, with the tagline “Standards for a sustainable future” In response to increasing demand for ambitious sustainable development and environmental standards, we have been expanding our work into new arenas over the last several years.
ECONOMISTS have long argued that the most efficient way to curb global warming is to put a price on the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause it. A total of 41 OECD and G20 governments have announced either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, or both. Add state and local schemes, and they cover 15% of the world’s emissions, up from 4% in 2010. Voters concerned about climate change are egging them on. So, too, are corporate bosses. More firms are imposing such pricing on themselves, even in places where policymakers are dragging their feet.
ECONOMISTS have long argued that the most efficient way to curb global warming is to put a price on the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause it. A total of 41 OECD and G20 governments have announced either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, or both. Add state and local schemes, and they cover 15% of the world’s emissions, up from 4% in 2010. Voters concerned about climate change are egging them on. So, too, are corporate bosses. More firms are imposing such pricing on themselves, even in places where policymakers are dragging their feet.
The Leaders’ Voices on Carbon Pricing to Drive Climate Action, a CPLC side event during COP23 in Bonn, provided a platform for partners and stakeholders to focus on this discussion.
