Carbon certification

Science-Based Integrated Forest Mitigation Management Made Operational for Europe Context Forests have a major role to play in mitigating climate change, through their ability to capture and store carbon throughout their lifetime. But this mitigation potential is highly dependent on forest management practices and could be doubled if best management practices become the norm. Still, […]

  This publication – a small booklet – summarizes the basics for a better understanding of climate change challenges. Figures and graphs illustrate its causes and impacts, as well as mitigation measures. In particular, detailed statistics are provided on greenhouse gas emissions and on observed trends in the world, in Europe and in France.   This publication is […]

Context : French Local Authorities, like cities and metropolises, want to be able to identify within their budgets what contributes to the ecological transition, and to do so, they need a shared framework for analysing their budget. Such an assessment will enable them to respond to citizens’ demands for budget transparency, to better manage their budget decisions systematically through a climate […]

  The French recovery plan and its consequences for the climate have been the subject of much debate. It should allow France to catch up on some of its investments in sustainable mobility, building renovation and decarbonated energy production. For , it is necessary to anticipate what will follow the end of the French recovery […]

Context : “Green budgeting” covers a variety of practices aimed at identifying and evaluating the components of the public budget impacting one or more dimensions of the environmental action of the public authorities. Today, there is no universal definition of green budgeting. Most green budgeting exercises cover environment-compatible public spending, but some also include harmful expenditure, such as fossil fuel subsidies; others also […]

Context Our homes, vehicles, the factories and the farms, the roads, canals and railroads, the power stations and power grids, as well as many more equipment are the permanent foundation of our economy and our daily lives. They are the result our investments, accumulated over decades – sometimes centuries – and continue to evolve, year […]

  A high-level international Commission Launched in November 2016 at the COP22 in Morocco, at the invitation of the two Co-Chairs of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) High Level Assembly, Ségolène Royal and Feike Sijbesma, the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, led by the two famous economits Joseph Stiglitz, and Lord Nicholas Stern, gathers […]

Providing guidelines to help policymakers ask the right questions regarding the utilization of revenues generated by their carbon pricing policies. We organize our work around three policy questions: To what extent do carbon revenues explain the interest of developing countries in supporting their low-carbon development through carbon pricing schemes? What are the main acceptability issues […]

Analyzing the use of revenues from carbon pricing policies Moving towards low-carbon development trajectories involves sending appropriate signals to guide public and private action. In order to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement (NDC for Nationally Determined Contributions), more and more countries are interested in carbon pricing policies to encourage their transition to a mode […]

Stimulating international cooperation: a driver of the global decarbonation Moving towards a “zero net emissions” world by 2050 requires international cooperation to facilitate transfers of low-carbon technologies, skills, finance, etc. that can encourage climate action and reduce its cost.   In order to structure this international climate cooperation, the Paris Agreement and its Article 6 […]