Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition

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General

Name of initiative	Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
LPAA initiative	No
NAZCA Initiative	No
Website address	http://www.carbonpricingleadership.org/
Related initiatives
Starting year	2015
End year
Secretariat	World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, e-mail: tkerr@ifc.org
Organisational structure	Members of the Carbon Pricing Panel include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, French President François Hollande, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Philippines President Benigno Aquino III, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor Jerry Brown of California, and Mayor Eduardo Paes of Rio de Janeiro. The panel provides political momentum to complement the voices of government and industry leaders in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition – an action based platform set up on the back of support for carbon pricing from 74 countries and 1,000 companies at the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2014. Private sector support comes from US Institutional Investor Calpers, Engie of France, Mahindra Group of India, and Netherlands based Royal DSM who, with other leading businesses, work to link business needs with public policies through the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. The Secretariat of the CPLC is the World Bank Group. The CPLC has a 9 member steering committee composed of government, business and strategic partners, and sets of co-chairs for each of the Coalition’s three working groups. The Coalition’s annual High-Level Assembly is co-chaired for 2016 by Segolene Royal, French Minister of Ecology, and Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM.
Geographical coverage	Global
Name of lead organisation	The World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund
Type of lead organisation	Other intergovernmental organization
Location/Nationality of lead organisation	United States of America

Description

Description	Convened by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde, the Carbon Pricing Panel is calling on their peers to follow their lead and put a price on carbon. They are joined in this effort by OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria. 74 countries and more than 1,000 companies expressed support for carbon pricing.
Objectives
Activities	The Coalition is a voluntary partnership of national and sub-national governments, businesses, and civil society organizations that agree to advance the carbon pricing agenda by working with each other towards the long-term objective of a carbon price applied throughout the global economy by: Strengthening carbon pricing policies to redirect investment commensurate with the scale of the climate challenge; Bringing forward and strengthening the implementation of existing carbon pricing policies to better manage investment risks and opportunities; and Enhancing cooperation to share information, expertise and lessons learned on developing and implementing carbon pricing through various "readiness" platforms
One or two success stories achieved

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative	Political dialogue, Technical dialogue
Activity of initiative	Policy planning and recommendations, Knowledge dissemination and exchange
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Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals	The CPLC held its inaugural High-Level Assembly in April 2016, highlighting and building global momentum on carbon pricing and formalizing the Coalition work plan. The CPLC has also convened leadership dialogue events on carbon pricing in Chile, Columbia, India, France and South Africa since COP21. The Coalition has brought on dozens of new partners since its launch at COP21, including the governments of Finland, UK, Columbia, Cote d’Ivoire and Japan.
How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Available reporting

Participants

Participants	Number	Names
Members	0
Companies	0
Business organisations	0
Research and educational organisations	0
Non-governmental organisations	0
National states	0
Governmental actors	0
Regional / state / county actors	0
City / municipal actors	0
Intergovernmental organisations	0
Financial Institutions	0
Faith based organisations	0
Other members	0
Supporting partners	0
Number of members in the years	2018 250
Have only national states as participators	No

Theme

Transport	Agriculture	Forestry	Business	Financial institutions	Buildings	Industry	Waste	Cities and subnational governments	Short Term Pollutants	International maritime transport	Energy Supply	Fluorinated gases	Energy efficiency	Renewable energy	Supply chain emission reductions	Adaptation	Other	Resilience	Innovation	Energy Access and Efficiency	Private Finance
No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No

Last update: 10 March 2022 09:36:05

Not only have national states as participators