Renowned economist Lord Nicholas Stern literally wrote the book on carbon pricing – well, the Stern-Stiglitz High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices. He and IFC Vice President Hans Peter Lankes join ClimateBiz to discuss the basics of carbon prices, what businesses need to know, and what this means for international development.
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
The Price Is Right
PART I
Renowned economist Lord Nicholas Stern literally wrote the book on carbon pricing – well, the Stern-Stiglitz High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices. He and IFC Vice President Hans Peter Lankes join ClimateBiz to discuss the basics of carbon prices, what businesses need to know, and what this means for international development.
- 8:21 Current state of carbon pricing initiatives
- 11:54 What should the price be?
- 14:47 Carbon pricing and developing countries
- 17:35 Millennial preferences
- 21:00 IFC’s carbon pricing experience
- 26:00 Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
- 29:32 Climate change and pensions
Episode Guests
Nicholas Stern
Co-Chair and IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and President of the Royal Economic Society
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