Green Battlegrounds: Carbon Tax or Taxing Poverty?

The Raisina Podcast

The most efficient mechanism to accelerate the transition to low-carbon growth is a carbon price. But how will different approaches to taxing or pricing carbon intersect with each other? How can we ensure that the developing world’s poverty is not the developed world’s mitigation strategy?
Speakers:

Waseqa Ayesha Khan, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources; Member of Parliament, Bangladesh
Jayant Sinha, Member of Parliament, India
Elizabeth Yee, Executive Vice President, Program Strategy and Chief of Staff, The Rockefeller Foundation, United States
Shirish Sinha, Director, Climate, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, India
Kira Vinke, Head, Centre for Climate and Foreign Policy, German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany
Moderator:
Ulka Kelkar, Director, Climate Program, World Resources Institute, India
The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference committed to addressing the most challenging issues facing the global community. Every year, global leaders in policy, business, media and civil society are hosted in New Delhi to discuss cooperation on a wide range of pertinent international policy matters.
The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in collaboration with the Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs.
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