90% of emissions from energy use are priced at less than EUR 30 per tonne, a lower-end estimate of the damage from emitting 1 tone of CO2 and 60% of emissions are subject to no price whatsoever. We are making poor use of carbon pricing, a acost-effective means of reducing CO2 emissions
OECD Environment Director, Simon Upton, will host Kurt van Dender, OECD environmental tax policy expert from the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration to discuss the OECD's forthcoming publication on effective carbon rates - a new, comibed measure of the extended to which countries use taxes and emissions trading systems to price carbon, and explore the carbon pricing gap.
Date and time: Monday, September 26, 2016 2:30 pm - 4:30pm - Europe Summer Time