A Strategy for International Climate Negotiations
For International Climate Negotiations
MIT is not part of the UN establishment; its report on the Paris pledges comes to a much different conclusion, than does the U.N. report. For example, MIT’s report says, “Under the
Today (2015/10/30) the UN released its report on the aggregate effect of INDCs. The findings are inconclusive, and not very optimistic, so the Newsroom did its best to spin them. For example,
In a joint post, the heads of the IMF and the World Bank have called for some form of global carbon pricing: “The transition to a cleaner future will require both government action
Ahead of the November 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, a global Carbon Pricing Panel has been convened by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director,
Many news stories have reported that because of the climate pledges made for the Paris climate conference, the world will warm by 3°C instead of by 5°C. This comes from a report of the
The 5 October version of the text is available here. The text mentions that financing could be more than the $100 billion per year already promised by 2020, coming from both public
In an interview with CBS News, 2 October 2015, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, said The United States or China or Tuvalu … none of them are doing this to save the
French lawmakers passed legislation to increase the target price of carbon to 56 euros ($61.48) a ton in 2020 and 100 euros a ton in 2030, The rate, now 14.50 euros a ton, climbs
“All countries are relatively sceptical on international market mechanisms,” said Niklas Hoehne, founding partner of research group NewClimate Institute. “They are open to have national trading mechanisms or national pricing, but to
Reuters Carbon pricing will not be on the agenda in Paris (Dec. 2015) because the cap-&-traders have convinced the world that the only path to a global price is international cap and trade.