PICS is hosted and led by the University of Victoria in collaboration with
the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the University of Northern British Columbia.

Decoding Carbon Pricing: Achieving a Low Carbon Society in British Columbia

decoding carbon pricing

Presented by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
in collaboration with Sustainable Prosperity

June 8 - 10, 2009
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Vancouver BC

Around 250 people attended the "Decoding Carbon Pricing" forum, which heard from a wide range of climate change experts and policymakers from government and the business, academic and NGO communities. This event marked the launch of PICS' new, annual series on climate change topics, created to provide a venue where controversial issues can be examined critically and policy approaches explored.

Chris Walker, former North America Director, The Climate Group, delivered an inspiring keynote address on the transformational challenge of the low carbon society, and innovative approaches to delivering the biggest carbon reductions in the least time.

Experts from across Canada and the US addressed the topic of carbon pricing and tax shifting in BC; early changes in BC companies and institutions to respond to the carbon price; the significance to BC of a potential North American carbon market; and public engagement in the shift to a low carbon society.

In addition, the public forum on June 9 featured four expert commentators leading a roundtable discussion on what the BC experiment and debate around the carbon tax mean for climate change policy, and how politicians, social and environmental movements approach carbon pricing in the future. 

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