Why a carbon price corridor is not a tax
The Shift Project publishes an analysis dismissing the legal risk that a carbon price corridor could lead to a requalification of the European Union’s Emissions Trade System as a tax Click […]
Category Archives: Governance
Making sure the ECB doesn’t finance CO2 emissions
European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, followed by his Japanese counterpart Haruhiko Kuroda, has said there are no limits to his monetary interventions (“Within our mandate we have no […]
Well done for the Paris agreement: now let’s get to work!
The long awaited Paris Agreement can be considered a great historic victory. Despite the regrettable vagueness about emissions reduction by 2100, the Agreement does give strong signals which encourage a […]
Here are all the videos and reports from our conferences at the 2015 Solutions’ Gallery!
The Shift Project was at the Solutions Gallery from the 2nd to the 9th of December, a few hundred meters away from the Blue Zone of COP21. The Shift Project […]
Get real about carbon pricing – fast
Open paths and dead ends towards carbon neutrality. We’re almost there, yet everything remains to be done. The climate agreement about to be brokered by the international community boils down […]
IPCC Vice-Chair Jean-Pascal van Ypersele releases a book
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, IPCC Vice-Chair (2008-2015) and member of The Shift Project’s scientific committee, has just released a book titled “Une vie au coeur des turbulences climatiques” (“A life at […]
Amy Dahan on the failures and possibilities of climate governance
The Shift Project was delighted to welcome Amy Dahan, a science historian and mathematician whose book sheds a unique light on climate governance. The study, co-written with Mr. Stefan Aykut, […]
The Shift Project calls on France to support the recommendations of the Canfin-Grandjean report on climate financing
The report “Mobilizing Climate Finance” was submitted to the president on June 18. Its authors, Pascal Canfin and Alain Grandjean, offer a “roadmap to support a low carbon economy.” Six […]
The Shift Project calls on France to support the recommendations of the Canfin-Grandjean report on climate financing
The report “Mobilizing Climate Finance” was submitted to the president on June 18. Its authors, Pascal Canfin and Alain Grandjean, offer a “roadmap to support a low carbon economy.” Six […]