Ian Parry
International Monetary Fund
Nov. 21, 2023
IN THIS EPISODE
Carbon pricing is steadily emerging as one of the most viable solutions to reducing global emissions, but shedding its contentious past to build a global consensus is still a work in progress.
Economist Ian Parry has championed the idea of carbon pricing long before it was fashionable- or even considered feasible by more than a handful of countries.
Parry is the principal environmental fiscal policy expert in the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department and has made it his mission to present- on behalf of the institution, the benefits of incorporating climate risks into the cost of doing business through a carbon tax. Transcript
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IAN PARRY is the principal environmental fiscal policy expert in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department.