Academics and experts questioned on carbon border adjustment mechanisms
19 November 2021
The Environmental Audit Committee inquiry looks at the role CBAMs could play in preventing carbon leakage and meeting the UK’s environmental objectives. It will also consider the wider impacts, risks and opportunities of the UK Government introducing its own unilateral CBAM.
- Watch Parliament TV: Carbon border adjustment mechanism
- Inquiry: Carbon border adjustment mechanism
- Environmental Audit Committee
Witnesses
Wednesday 24 November 2021
At 2.20pm
- Sir Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at University of Oxford
At 3.00pm
- Dr Sanna Markkanen, Research Programme Lead and Senior Analyst at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- Michael Mehling, Professor of Practice at University of Strathclyde School of Law, and Deputy Director at Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr Misato Sato, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics
At 3.40pm
- Mike Thompson, Chief Economist at Climate Change Committee
- Hannah Dillon, Head of Campaign at Zero Carbon Campaign
- Domien Vangenechten, Policy Advisor - Industrial Decarbonisation at Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G)
This evidence session aims to explore these areas with academics and representatives from the Climate Change Committee, Zero Carbon Campaign, E3G and others.
Further information
Inquiry: PA