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Berger on carbon pricing at COP21

Fellow(s): John J Berger
Topic(s): Climate Change, Environmental Policy & Law, International Conservation & Development, Energy Resources & Access

[from December 2, 2015]

Major world leaders today launched an unprecedented global carbon pricing initiative, calling for nations of the world to put a price on carbon pollution to protect the climate and accelerate a transition to ä clean, sustainable energy future. The initiative is sponsored by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

Heads of state, including French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, joined World Bank President Jim Yong Kim in Paris at the UN's COP21 global climate change conference to announce the new global carbon pricing initiative.

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John Berger

John J Berger

1988 Fellow
John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.