Carbon pricing in Canada’s North
6 April 2017 – Jason Dion (Research Associate, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) discusses some of the challenges of introducing carbon pricing in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Read the full article on the
6 April 2017 – Jason Dion (Research Associate, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission) discusses some of the challenges of introducing carbon pricing in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Read the full article on the
5 April 2017 – Trump says he wants to shrink America’s trade deficit with China, but the best way to do that would be to focus on the subsidies that
4 April 2017 – A broad coalition of more than 120 companies and organisations call on the Dutch government to embrace a tax shift from labour to resource use and
4 April 2017 – London’s congestion charge is set to be extended under new plans from Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants to charge the most heavily polluting cars and vans
28 March 2017 – Joel Darmstadter (Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future) discusses the effects of a proposed ‘upstream’ carbon tax on the coal industry in the US. Read the
29 March 2017 – A deal between California’s Governor Jerry Brown and leaders of the legislature would see an increase in fuel taxes and other transport-related fees to finance infrastructure
23 March 2017 – The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, hosted a lunch for Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, business leaders and civil society organizations to discuss the need
27 March 2017, Berlin – The 2017 PAGE Ministerial Conference is taking place on 27-28 March in Berlin. A parallel session at the conference organised by UN Environment will explore
16 March 2017 – Germany plans to use its G20 Presidency to nudge world leaders towards a global carbon price. Read the full article by BBC News.
18 March 2017, Baden Baden –Â G20 Finance Ministers met in Baden-Baden, Germany on 17-18 March. The communique adopted by Ministers dropped a reference on the readiness to finance measures
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