Global Harmonized Carbon Pricing: Looking Beyond Paris Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, International Conference, May 27 and 28, 2015
Global Harmonized Carbon Pricing: Looking Beyond Paris Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, International Conference, May 27 and 28, 2015 Proceedings CONTENTS Preface Photograph of participants Introductory remarks by Ernesto Zedillo Session 1: Why insist on an international carbon price? Martin Weitzman, Robert Schmidt, Massimo Tavoni; Moderator, William Nordhaus Presentations Discussion Session 2: The national interest argument for pricing carbon Dale Jorgenson, Zhongxiang Zhang, Thomas Sterner, Gilbert Metcalf, Adele Morris; Moderator, Ernesto Zedillo Presentations Discussion Session 3: Dealing with the practicalities of international carbon pricing (other than participation and compliance) Ian Parry, Richard Cooper, Kurt Van Dender, Grzegorz Peszko, Joshua Linn; Moderator, Ernesto Zedillo Presentations Discussion Session 4: The challenge of achieving participation and compliance Carolyn Fischer, William Nordhaus, Santiago Rubio, Scott Shelton; Moderator, Samuel Kortum Presentations Discussion Session 5: The political economy of carbon pricing David Victor, Eric Toder, Robert Repetto, Jason Bordoff, James Stock, Matto Mildenberger; Moderator, Leonardo Martinez Diaz Presentations Discussion Session 6: The elements (term sheet) of an Additional Protocol Silke Goldberg, Matthew McCullough, Kate Brown de Vejar, Scott Barrett; Moderator, Scott Shapiro Presentations Discussion Preface This document contains presentations made at a conference on global harmonized carbon pricing held at Yale University in May of 2015. The conference was organized by the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization with participation by some of the world’s most renowned scholars and experts on key aspects of the topic. In these edited transcriptions, you will find powerful arguments, careful analyses and wide-ranging discussion about the elements necessary to build an international agreement for climate change mit- igation based on harmonized carbon pricing.
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