Pricing A Negative Externality: Carbon

This webinar series on carbon pricing and marketplaces is tailored specially for the South East Asian private sector audience. This series will contribute significantly to the understanding of pricing of negative externalities and carbon markets in this part of the world. Briefly, we would like to learn which measures have worked and which haven't. We would also like to learn what we will need moving forward to signal increased and urgent ambition.

Speaker 1: Andrei Marcu [Founder & Executive Director, ERCST]

Andrei Marcu has vast experience in managing policy-focused organisations, creating partnerships, managing stakeholder relations and fundraising. His focus has been on sustainable development, climate change and energy. In different capacities, he has been engaged in multilateral negotiating processes and subsequent implementation action, both at the global and sectorial level. He has acted as negotiator for developing countries, coordinator for the G-77 and China, and as representative of the international business community. He pioneered cooperation between the UN system and multinational corporations when serving as Manager of Private Sector Cooperation in the United Nations Development Programme.

Speaker 2: Michael Mehling [Executive Director, MIT Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), USA]

Michael Mehling is the Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Policy Research (CEEPR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Professor at the University of Strathclyde  Law School. His work focuses on instruments of energy and environmental policy. He is the founding President of Ecologic Institute in Washington DC an environmental policy think tank with partner offices in Berlin and Brussels. Currently, Michael serves on the Boards of Climate Strategies in London, Ecologic Institute in Washington DC and Berlin and the European Roundtable on Cimate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST) in Brussels. He's also on the advisory boards of the of the Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI)  in London, the International Policy Coalition for Sustainable Growth in Washington, D.C., and the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM) in Berlin as well as the management of the Konrad-von-Moltke Fund. He is also an Associated Researcher with the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge, a Policy Advisor of the Center for Climate and Trade at the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) in Washington, D.C., and a Commissioner with the Commission on Carbon Competitiveness in Canada.

Speaker 3: Chandra Shekhar Sinha [Lead Financial Specialist]

Chandra Shekhar Sinha joined the World Bank since 1997 and was the founding team which introduces carbon financing in World Bank. He currently serves as the Global Lead for Carbon Finance and Markets, where he is an Adviser in the Office of the Director of the Climate Change Group in World Bank. He was the head of Asia for environmental markets in JP Morgan. He's also a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Chandra holds a Ph.D. and MTech in Energy Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, as well as a master's in Physics from the IIT, Kanpur. Chandra Shekhar's current work is focused on: (1) creating the next generation of carbon markets; (2) utilizing climate finance for the Paris Agreement Alignment of Bank operations, including deepening client engagement; and (3) maximizing synergies between various climate change initiatives of the Climate Change Group at the World Bank.