#PodKAS - "Carbon Pricing in the Global South - Refining the EU’s climate development nexus"
Channel: MDPD KAS in Brussels
Date: 25/11/2020

Listen to #PodKAS - Bridging Voices Series: "Carbon Pricing in the Global South - Refining the EU’s climate development nexus" - Also available on SoundCloud - www.linktr.ee/MDPD

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Our new online-discussion forum that bridges the gap between the EU and the Global South. In our first episode we focus on Carbon Pricing in the Global South, a topic of increasing importance in the EU’s climate-development policy nexus.

Carbon taxes and ETS are widely seen as critical tools to mitigate climate change. Just recently, Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted that she hopes that “as many countries as possible will go for carbon pricing”, including in the Global South. But introducing carbon taxes and ETS in developing countries is no easy thing to do, something which is often underestimated in European policy debates.

With that in mind, can we simply apply Western carbon pricing instruments to developing countries? How effective and fair are carbon taxes and ETS in LDCs? And how can we make the EU's climate-development policy nexus more tailor-made to the needs of individual developing countries?

Our guests:

Vicky Pollard, Acting Deputy Head of Unit, International Carbon Markets, European Commission
Andrew Gilder, Director, Climate Legal, South Africa

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