【COP30】Navigating Geopolitical Turbulence with Effective Carbon Pricing in East Asia
| Event Date | 2025/11/12 |
|---|---|
| Event Time | 2:00 pm-3:30 pm (UTC-3) |
| Event Venue | COP30 Asia Climate Solutions Pavilion |
About Event
Session Overview:
Carbon pricing is an essential pillar of climate policy. Across the Asia–Pacific’s major emitting economies, important shifts are underway: Taiwan has launched a carbon fee mechanism, Japan is advancing the GX-ETS, Korea has entered Phase 4 of the K-ETS. Yet no country can move forward in isolation from global political and economic headwinds. On one side, the EU’s CBAM is slated to take effect in 2026; on the other, proposals such as Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” are being invoked by high-emitting industries as a pretext to delay carbon pricing.
Against this backdrop, the Taiwan Climate Action Network (TCAN) is convening representatives from Korea, Japan and Taiwan to examine the implementation challenges of carbon pricing in each country, the role these instruments play in achieving NDC 3.0 (the next round of nationally determined contributions), and how international geopolitics is shaping domestic policy design.
Detailed Program:
| Duration
(mins.) |
Content (Opening Remarks, Presentation, Panel, etc) | Speaker(s) (Name, Title, and Affiliation) * |
| 14:00~14:05 | Opening Remarks | Chia-Wei Chao/ Research Director, Taiwan Climate Action Network |
| 14:05 ~14:15 | Carbon Pricing in Japan | Ken Tanaka / Climate and enegy officer, WWF Japan |
| 14:15 ~14:25 | Carbon Pricing in Korea | Kyungrak Kwon / Plan 1.5 |
| 14:35 ~14:45 | Carbon Pricing in Taiwan :
Key Design and Challenges |
Je-Liang Liou / Deputy Director, Green Economy Research Center, CIER |
| 14:45 ~14:55 | Carbon Pricing in Taiwan : Unfinished Agenda and Road Ahead |
Chia-Wei Chao/ Research Director, Taiwan Climate Action Network |
| 14:55~ 15:10 | Panel Discussion | Moderated by Chia-Wei Chao |
| 15:10~15:30 | QA with Audience |