COP 23 side event – Carbon revenues: taking stock of climate benefits and tax benefits for developed and developing countries

Date: 14th November

Time: 13h15-14h45.
Location: EU Pavilion
Organisers: World Bank, AFD, I4CE, Ecofys, the Generation Foundation

Event Summary:

An increasing number of countries are exploring how carbon pricing instruments could help them meet their NDC goals. This event will look at how to use revenues generated by carbon pricing policies to support a low-carbon and climate-resilient development, from the perspective of policy makers in developing countries (World Bank Group-WBG, the Agence Française de Developpement-AFD and the Institute for Climate Economics-I4CE) as well as of entities covered by carbon pricing instruments (Ecofys and the Generation Foundation under their Carbon Pricing Unlocked partnership).

Panelists (researchers as well as practitioners from the public and private sector) will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities associated with their experience of the use of carbon

Speakers :

1. John ROOME, Senior director climate change, World Bank
2. A representative of the Agence Française de Développement
3. Institute for Climate Econmics (I4CE)
4. Ecofys
5. One representative from a country
6. One representative from a covered compagny