25th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
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Panel 1: Carbon pricing developments across the globe
Panellists: Keith Engel, Kasia Lewis, Ian Parry, Hadi Setiawan
This panel gauges the carbon pricing instruments in developing nations in Africa and Southeast Asia against the carbon emissions and temperature targets set by the Paris agreement. The main points of discussion are:
1. The current carbon pricing trends globally in developed and developing countries.
2. The alternative carbon pricing instruments (like fuel taxes, electricity levy and congestion charges), to carbon tax that are more suitable for low-income developing countries
3. The role of regional cooperation and carbon pricing synergy among major trading partners in achieving emissions targets and minimising the regressive effect of carbon taxes on low-income households.
4. Whether or not border adjustment mechanisms are suitable instruments where low income developing countries do not/ can not implement carbon tax.
Panel 2: Public-private partnerships in the Just Energy Transition
Panellists: Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmad, Abel Sakhau, Alenka Turnsek
The notion of a just energy transition has gained prominence in South Africa and elsewhere in emerging economies in recent years. The need to manage an accelerated transition to cleaner energy in countries facing extreme inequalities, unemployment and poverty underscores the importance of an inclusive and fair transition. Market and policy signals, coupled with targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are required to help achieve the economic and social changes necessary for sustainable development, while simultaneously protecting workers and vulnerable communities through a more socially equitable distribution of bene
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