Energy and Climate Seminar 5 : Tracking progress on climate goals and the role of carbon pricing

Introduction

The world is committed through the Paris Agreement to limit the global average temperature rises to well below 2°C and pursue efforts to hold the increase to 1.5°C. The Climate Action Tracker independently tracks the emission reduction commitments and climate actions of countries towards this goal. In this seminar, Climate Action Tracker ‘s latest analysis of pledges, policies and outcomes will be presented.

To help achieve emissions reductions, carbon pricing has been increasingly implemented at regional, national and subnational levels.  The seminar will also look at what has been achieved in carbon pricing around the world., and how such initiatives may enable further emissions reductions in future.

Speaker:  Lindee Wong

Lindee Wong is an energy and climate policy senior consultant at Ecofys UK. Lindee works on diverse topics in the domain of sustainable energy including carbon pricing policy, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and its impact on industry, evaluating international energy and climate policies and non-state climate change action. Prior to joining Ecofys, Lindee was a nuclear analyst at research facilities in Australia and France. Lindee holds a Master of Science in Environmental Technology specialising in Energy Policy from Imperial College London, and a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) specialising in mathematics and physics at the University of Sydney.