The final rules for the Californian allowance trading scheme initiative, which was agreed in December 2010, were voted on October 20th 2011. As from 2013, this new carbon market, which covers 85% of Californian emissions, is expected to enable the State to return to its 1990 emissions level by 2020. It will be a life-size test for the implementation of economy-wide carbon pricing policies in the United States.
On the sidelines of COP21, public and private financial institutions around the globe adopted 5 Voluntary Principles for “mainstreaming” climate change. The Initiative now renamed Climate Action in Financial Institutions gathers as of June 2017 30 financial institutions. It represents for them an opportunity to learn from each other, to disseminate good practice and lessons learned and to […]
For the Global Climate Chance Summit, I4CE and EpE – Entreprises pour l’environnement, have come together to release a guidebook on internal carbon pricing. The publication outlines the concept of an internal carbon price, describes its various forms and also identifies benefits of adopting this policy. The publication is based on the experiences of companies […]
