Ian Parry: Carbon Pricing and the Power of a Good Idea

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carbon pricing is steadily emerging as one of the most viable solutions to reducing global emissions, but shedding its contentious past to build a global consensus is still a work in progress. Economist Ian Parry has championed the idea of carbon pricing long before it was fashionable- or even considered feasible by more than a handful of countries. Parry is the principal environmental fiscal policy expert in the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department and has made it his mission to present- on behalf of the institution, the benefits of incorporating climate risks into the cost of doing business through a carbon tax.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style= "font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" xml:lang= "FR"><a href= "https://traffic.libsyn.com/imfpodcast/Ian_Parry-transcript-IMF_Podcast.pdf"> Transcript</a>: https://bit.ly/47jrAP7</span></p>