Steering tools for financing the environmental transition

Context Financing plans are a critical tool for governments to achieve climate objectives. Such plans support the operationalisation of Nationally Determined Contributions – NDCs and long-term climate strategies by providing answers to key questions such as: how much will the transition cost? what will be the respective roles of the public and the private sector? […]

Context Carbon pricing is increasingly applied as a key instrument for the climate transition and the related revenues are expected to keep increasing in the coming years. National and local governments can adopt various approaches to using these revenues, which could be critical for the public acceptability of these measures, or indeed to finance the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Provide factual, independent and quantified analysis of climate and energy policies in articulation with the EU ETS in order to examine the conditions for improving their environmental and economic efficiency A new framework for climate and energy policies is being built for the period 2021-2030, and comes with major stakes:   The alignment of climate […]

  Three steps to understand the implications of the EU ETS reform on free allocation I4CE has built a simulation tool to estimate the EU ETS free allocation in Phase IV (2021-2030) according to different parameters discussed in the current trilogue negotiations between the EU Parliament, the EU Council and the EU Commission. Trilogue negotiations started in […]

  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 […]