A revista científica internacional Climate Policy estendeu o convite ao Professor Emilio Lèbre La Rovere para participar do seu Conselho Editorial por mais 4 anos. Durante sua participação no Conselho, a revista atingiu grandes avanços, como a obtenção do fator de impacto 3,8.

Os membros do Conselho são ocasionalmente solicitados a revisar artigos da revista ou selecionar revisores para realizar esta função. Em compensação, são agraciados com uma assinatura online gratuita da revista, com direito a uma cópia impressa, que fica à disposição dos pesquisadores interessados no LIMA.

The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) is a unique initiative that brings together leaders across national and sub-national governments, the private sector, academia, and civil society with the goal of putting in place effective carbon pricing policies that maintain competitiveness, create jobs, encourage innovation, and deliver meaningful emissions reductions. The Coalition aims to drive action through knowledge sharing, targeted technical analysis and public-private dialogues that guide successful carbon pricing policy adoption and accelerate implementation.

On April 19, 2018, carbon pricing leaders from around the world came together to accelerate efforts to extend carbon pricing into new regions and sectors to help the world meet its Paris Agreement climate change targets.

During the event, the CPLC released is annual Leadership Report, which provides a review of the work in the past year, case studies from jurisdictions implementing the FASTER Principles for successful carbon pricing and opinion pieces from the Co-Chairs, Commissioners from the High-Level Commission.

Emilio Lèbre La Rovere and Harald Winkler, both members of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, explain in the report their concerns of the adoption of high carbon taxes in developing countries. In their studies, it is explained that this adoption is needed to meet the Paris agreement goals. However,it founds a barrier when this transition to a low-carbon society must allow for simultaneously meeting other sustainable development goals: notably bridging the housing gap; raising living standards; ensuring food security; and improving access to education, water, sanitation, health, mobility, and energy.

Donwload The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition Report 2017-2018

A aluna Isadora Mendes recebeu menção honrosa em trabalho apresentado na Jornada de Iniciação Científica de 2017. A apresentação do trabalho ocorreu durante a 8ª Semana de Integração Acadêmica da UFRJ (8º SIAc/UFRJ- 2017), no dia 25/10/2017, às 14h30, no hall do Bloco B.

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Título: “Análise das políticas de mitigação de emissões de gases de efeito estufa do setor de agricultura no estado do Rio de janeiro e simulação de cenários de mitigação”

Resumo do trabalho:

O Estado do Rio de Janeiro se destaca na área ambiental estabelecendo políticas, planos e adotando ações em prol da mitigação e adaptação aos efeitos das mudanças climáticas. O setor de agricultura e florestas é um dos que apresenta maior contribuição na emissão de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) no Brasil, e é considerado estratégico à implantação de medidas de mitigação de emissões. Conhecer essas medidas e entender suas implicações poderá auxiliar no desenvolvimento e aprimoramento das políticas climáticas do setor. Os objetivos do projeto incluem: mapear as atividades de uso do solo relacionadas a agropecuária e florestas desenvolvidas no Estado do RJ; contabilizar as emissões de GEE do setor; identificar medidas de mitigação aplicáveis às atividades mapeadas; simular cenários agrícolas, de referência e de mitigação; demonstrar como o Estado poderá usufruir dos recursos do Plano ABC. A metodologia utilizada para o levantamento das atividades emissoras e contabilização das emissões de GEE será consulta bibliográfica aos inventários de gases de efeito estufa do Estado do RJ, incluindo dados do III Inventário de Emissões do Estado (no prelo) e ao III Inventário Nacional de Emissões de GEE do Brasil (BRASIL, 2016). Consultas a programas e projetos em desenvolvimento no Estado também serão realizadas. Cenários de mitigação serão simulados considerando as diferentes categorias de uso do solo mapeadas. Espera-se demonstrar os impactos ambientais e econômicos da adoção das medidas de mitigação previstas nas políticas climáticas no setor agrícola do Estado; demonstrar como o RJ poderá mitigar as emissões e como poderá usufruir dos recursos do Plano Agricultura de Baixo Carbono; prover informações que possam auxiliar o governo estadual na busca de uma política adequada para o setor, proporcionando redução de emissões e crescimento econômico.

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Call for papers deadline - April 15th 2018 

Convened by the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, the conference aims to drive innovative research and analysis from academics and practitioners on the effective design and implementation of carbon pricing policies

Washington, February 28, 2018 – The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), an initiative that brings together leaders from government, business, and civil society to drive carbon pricing action around the world, announced today the launch of the first CPLC Research Conference on carbon pricing to take place in late January 2019.

Over the past several years, the world has seen a proliferation of carbon pricing schemes and an increase in the diversity of approaches. Research has underpinned much of this progress and helped increase the understanding of carbon pricing design. Despite this growing body of experience and data, new research and analysis are needed to support effective carbon pricing design and execution.

The CPLC will convene researchers, policy makers, and practitioners at this international research conference to strengthen the knowledge base on carbon pricing and foster an improved understanding of the evolving challenges to its successful application.

Leveraging its high-level membership of governments, private sector, and civil society organisations, the Coalition will draw on outcomes of this conference to help bridge the existing gap between theory and practice, and to inform future decisions taken by policy makers and corporate leaders.

“We want to have a real, evidence-based conversation between practitioners, academia, policy makers, business leaders, and other sectors of society to provide answers to the difficult questions that all of them are asking around carbon pricing” said Andrei Marcu, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Senior Fellow International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition.

“We are looking to hear about interesting projects and outputs from across a wide spectrum of disciplines going beyond the usual fields already working on carbon pricing. For example, we would like to hear from researchers on corporate strategy or others working on the relevance of carbon pricing for business and the financial sector. We are particularly interested in a strong turnout from developing countries as well as from a younger generation of researchers and practitioners” said Michael Mehling, Co-Chair of the conference and its scientific committee, and Deputy Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Relevant research themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Learning from past and current experience: Case studies on carbon pricing design and implementation, performance review and evaluation, comparing carbon pricing systems and their effects, understanding actors and affected markets, results of modelling to assess/compare environmental, macroeconomic, and distributional outcomes of different approaches, etc;
• Political economy of carbon pricing: Political acceptance and feasibility of carbon pricing, use of carbon pricing revenue, distributional effects of carbon pricing, dealing with adverse impacts of carbon pricing, etc.;
• Carbon pricing and development: Financing sustainable development with carbon pricing, fiscal aspects of carbon pricing, co-benefits of carbon pricing (indirect effects on pollution, employment implications, economic diversification), pathways to a just transition, etc.;
• Carbon pricing and competitiveness: Understanding impacts of carbon pricing on competitiveness, effects and limitations of policy options to address leakage and competitiveness concerns (free allocation, tax exemptions, alternative approaches), etc.;
• Role of carbon pricing in decarbonisation: Complementary policies and policy interactions, hybrid approaches to carbon pricing, dynamic effects and climate policy ambition, role of carbon pricing in innovation and energy transition, internal carbon pricing, etc.;
• Emerging frontiers of carbon pricing: Linkage and convergence of carbon pricing systems, policy transfer and diffusion across jurisdictions, extending carbon pricing to new sectors (aviation, shipping, agriculture and forestry), carbon pricing under the Paris Agreement (e.g. operationalisation of Art. 6 and NDC (Partnership) support), etc.

Call for papers

Abstracts of 150 words are due by April 15th 2018, and should be submitted using the form on the website: https://www.carbonpricingleadership.org/cplc-research-conference-call-for-papers/. All submissions will undergo review and selection by a Scientific Committee, with eminent representatives of academia, government, and private sector. Selection decisions will be communicated by May 31st, 2018, and full papers for conference presentation will be due by October 31st, 2018. Conference proceedings will be published in an edited volume and/or a high-impact, peer-reviewed journal. 

Source: Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition