Markets negotiations make little progress in Bonn

by Aki KachiGlobal marketsPosted on Comments are Disabled

Despite the political uncertainties around US’ participation in the Paris Agreement, technical negotiations on how to implement the landmark climate deal, including through carbon markets, continued at the UN Climate Conference earlier this month. While delegations underlined continued commitment to the Paris Agreement goals, little progress was made on the Article 6. Disagreements over the …

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‘Price it right, tax it smart, do it now’ demands the head of IMF

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Carbon Market Watch Joins Coalition to Promote Carbon Pricing As climate skeptics in the White House mulled over whether to remain in the Paris Agreement, less than two blocks away on Pennsylvania Avenue, climate change featured prominently in the spring meeting agenda of the World Bank and the IMF. Among the numerous workshops, conferences and …

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Getting the G20 to move on fossil fuel subsidies and carbon pricing

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The 2015 diplomatic success of the Paris Agreement now seems far away. Today we are faced with a very different geopolitical reality both in general, and especially when it comes to climate policy. Germany is a country Europe both looks to for stability, it also now finds itself in the global limelight in 2017 as it holds the G20 Presidency and will host the COP 23 in Bonn.

Carbon markets in the Paris Agreement: what’s next on the negotiation agenda?

by Aki KachiGlobal markets, Human rights in climate action, Sustainable developmentPosted on Comments are Disabled

The Paris Climate Conference agreed on strong provisions for markets, alongside provisions for non-market approaches. Next on the agenda is figuring out how these pieces work and fit together, how to improve and transition from the Kyoto Protocol’s measures -the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI), and how to integrate robust safeguards to …

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Open letter calls on aviation leaders to meet global climate commitments

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Brussels 11 May 2016. On the opening day of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) high level meeting in Montreal, 64 environmental organisations and Members of the European Parliament call for the aviation sector to develop a robust tool to reduce their emissions in line with the Paris agreement.