Precios al Carbono y CEPAL
Definición:
Los precios al carbono son instrumentos económicos diseñados para internalizar los costos sociales asociados con las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI), particularmente el dióxido de carbono (CO2), con el objetivo de mitigar el cambio climático. Estos precios establecen un valor monetario a las emisiones de carbono, lo que incentiva a las empresas y a los individuos a ajustar sus decisiones de producción y consumo, logrando con ello reducir sus emisiones y adoptar prácticas más sostenibles.
Fuente: CEPAL
Documentos destacados CEPAL
Estimación del precio social del carbono para la evaluación de la inversión pública en el Perú by
Call Number: LC/TS.2024/90Publication Date: 2024Política económica y cambio climático: fijación de precios del carbono en América Latina y el Caribe by
Call Number: LC/TS.2024/58Publication Date: 2024Metodología para la estimación del precio social del carbono en Chile y los países de América Latina y el Caribe by
Call Number: LC/TS.2021/72Publication Date: 2021
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About Carbon Pricing
- UNFCC: about carbon pricing
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Carbon pricing curbs greenhouse gas emissions by placing a fee on emitting and/or offering an incentive for emitting less. The price signal created shifts consumption and investment patterns, making economic development compatible with climate protection.
Carbon pricing is advancing rapidly as an approach to spur climate action. By 2020, 25 percent of global emissions are expected to be under some carbon pricing mechanism. A large and growing number of non-Annex I countries under the UNFCCC are pursuing carbon pricing: South Korea, China, Thailand, Singapore, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, others.
Recently, the V20, a group of 20 developing countries vulnerable to climate change, announced its intention to adopt carbon pricing by 2025.
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Carbon pricing: A development and trade reality check by Publication Date: 2023The scientific evidence draws a clear picture: To limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, Green House Gas (GHG) emissions need to peak before 2025 and be reduced by 43 per cent by 2030, while net zero emissions need to be achieved globally in the early 2050s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)).
The international climate change legal framework is also clear. It requires all countries to adopt climate change mitigation measures in order to achieve the common objective of limiting the increase in global temperatures to “well below” 2°C but leaves each country free to choose the specific measures and policies to meet their individual emissions reduction targets.
This report focuses on carbon pricing as one policy strand used to tackle global GHG emissions.
It gives an overview of implemented and forthcoming domestic and cross-border carbon pricing mechanisms, as well as their implications for GHG emissions, international trade and development.
It lays out the characteristics of various approaches, including the potential pitfalls and unintended economic and environmental side effects which need to be addressed for these approaches to work.