Project Description

Development of Policy Options for Mid- and Long-term Emissions Pathways and Role of Carbon Pricing

The overall objective of the project is to: (i) provide technical information and macroeconomic analysis on emissions scenarios and enabling policy instruments, including ETS, (ii) enhance the understanding of opportunities and challenges behind different types of economy-wide mitigation objectives in the Kazakh context; and (ii) strengthen the modelling capacity in Kazakhstan for analyzing mitigation pathways, enabling policy options and macroeconomic impacts.

The specific objectives of the project are:

  • provide technical information and macroeconomic analysis on emissions scenarios and enabling policy instruments, including ETS.
  • enhance the understanding of opportunities and challenges behind different types of economy-wide mitigation objectives in the Kazakh context; and
  • strengthen the modelling capacity in Kazakhstan for analyzing mitigation pathways

Commissioned by:

Year:

Worldbank

2015 – 2016