International Climate Policy (ICP) is a bi-monthly magazine published by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), covering trends around international and domestic climate and energy policies, as well as carbon markets.
Tim Flannery, the acclaimed Australian scientist, explorer and conservationist is a Segré Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Leading businesses and investors are now working out how to align themselves with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Carbon pricing is emerging as a key mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which means that private and public stakeholders are seeking an informed view of how carbon-related price signals can drive global emission reductions in line with these goals. In 2017, CDP and the We Mean Business Coalition launched the Carbon Pricing Corridors initiative with the aim of enabling large market players to define the carbon prices needed for industry to meet the Paris Agreement.
This inaugural report, Carbon Pricing Corridors: The Market View, was published in May 2017, covering the power sector and laying the ground-work for energy-intensive industries.
The Discussion Paper New Roles for South African Municipalities in Renewable Energy - A Review of business models reviews possible business models for South African municipalities to seize arising opportunities and minimise potential risks associated with the introduction of renewable energy technologies in the domestic electricity system. It proposes a typology of available business models for municipalities to seize emerging opportunities arising from renewable energy technologies. Three overarching roles, spilt into seven business models, are considered for municipalities: building electricity generation capacity; procuring electricity; and playing a facilitation function. Based on a three-pronged methodological framework taking into account the drivers of the business models; their techno-economic potential; and their ability to manage risks (regulatory, financial and socio-political); this report reviews each business model, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.
In 2013, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders agreed to build regional capacity to assist APEC economies in rationalizing and phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, while recognizing the importance of providing those in need with essential energy services. As part of such capacity building, APEC set up a Voluntary Peer Review (VPR) process to support APEC economies’ progress toward the group’s shared goal of phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption.
Chinese Taipei has participated in the fossil fuel subsidy reform peer review process led by the APEC Energy Working Group (EWG) in 2016, and is the fourth volunteer member economy to do so since 2014, following Peru (in 2014), New Zealand (2015), and the Philippines (2015). This peer review report is the culmination of the activities conducted under the APEC EWG. The report provides useful information on the Chinese Taipei economy and energy use, as well as descriptions of the subsidies chosen for the peer review process and the panel’s findings and recommendations on potential inefficiencies for these subsidies.
The manufacture of clean energy goods and provision of clean energy services, vital to climate change mitigation efforts, increasingly takes place through globally dispersed supply chains. In these supply chains, parts and components often cross borders multiple times before feeding into a clean energy power plant that is set up with the help of foreign or domestic firms that provide services such as design, engineering and construction as well as operations and maintenance. Non-tariff measures such as standards have the potential to impact trade much more than tariffs and nowhere is this truer than for solar-photovoltaic (PV). Policymakers in the trade as well as energy spheres thus need to be aware of the type of standards that are being set along various segments of the value chain for solar-PV for both goods and services as well as the standards development organisations that are involved.