Getting Ready for Carbon Pricing Policies: Challenges and Opportunities for the Energy Sector
This event was organized jointly by the Ministry of Energy of Chile and the PMR. Featuring prominent speakers from Chile as well as from around the world, it provided an opportunity to discuss and share with Chile’s public and private sector stakeholders the latest developments on the interaction between carbon pricing and energy policies.
Date:
Nov 05, 2014
Venue:
Santiago, Chile
| November 5, 2014 | ||
| 8:30 | Break | |
| 1. Opening | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| James Close, Director, World Bank Group | ||
| 2. Overview of Chile’s Energy and Climate Policies | ||
| 9:15 | ||
| Key Note Speech: Carbon Tax and Current Energy Policies in Chile | ||
| H.E. Máximo Pacheco, Minister of Energy, Chile | ||
| 9:30 | ||
| Key Note Speech: Overview of Chile’s Climate Strategy | ||
| H.E. Pablo Badenier Martínez, Minister of Environment, Chile | ||
| 9:45 | Break | |
| 3. The Carbon Pricing-Energy Policy Nexus: Perspectives from the Public and Private Sectors | ||
| This session provided an overview of the uptake of carbon pricing policies around the world, and participants discussed the interactions between existing and emerging carbon pricing and energy policies. The panelists also shared their perspective and presented main challenges as well as opportunities when designing or preparing to comply with carbon pricing policies. The first panel focused on public sector perspective and the second on public sector experiences. | ||
| 10:00 | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Carbon Pricing Around the World: Challenges and Opportunities Going Forward | ||
| 10:15 | ||
| Cecil Morden, National Treasury, South Africa | ||
| South Africa: Carbon Tax and Energy Policy | ||
| Luis Muñozcano, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico | ||
| Mexico: Nexus of Energy Policy and Market Instruments | ||
| Ingrid Hoff, Ministry of Finance, Norway | ||
| Norway: Carbon Taxes and ETS | ||
| 11:15 | ||
| Philipp Hauser, GDF SUEZ Energy Latin America | ||
| Ready for Carbon Pricing? Challenges and Opportunities for the Energy Sector | ||
| Juliana Lopes, Carbon Disclosure Project | ||
| Business Leadership in the Transition to a Low-carbon Economy | ||
| Marco Antonio Vargas, Statkraft | ||
| Experience with Carbon Pricing | ||
| 12:15 | ||
| Nicola Borregaard, Ministry of Energy, Chile | ||
| Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies, World Bank Group | ||
| End of Event | ||