IISD’s Tax and Sovereign Debt Program aims to harness the power of taxation and related fiscal measures as tools to promote a just energy transition and protect biodiversity. At the national level, we support emerging and developing countries to better protect their societies and our planet by taxing negative externalities on climate, environment, and biodiversity.
The candidate will be working on carbon pricing with our team as part of a multi-year project that supports the implementation of contextually appropriate carbon pricing in Southeast Asia. We work with countries that prefer to address environmental and biodiversity issues by taxing pollution, plastics, or deforestation, ensuring that revenues are redistributed in a socially progressive way and in line with good governance principles. At the global level, we contribute cutting-edge research and practical experience to the development of fiscal frameworks, including international tax measures, aimed at achieving global climate and biodiversity goals. This will involve close collaboration with our workstream on sovereign debt and other IISD programs on systems modelling, private finance, procurement, and subsidies to build a complete picture of the role of public and private finance in protecting the planet.
We aim for high-quality and useful analysis, founded on the best available thinking and quantitative modelling, to support governments in fiscal and environmental policy.
Key Responsibilities
• Development and coordination of a carbon pricing training course.
• Design of the carbon pricing course, in collaboration with local partners in project implementation countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines).
• Development of a carbon pricing and fiscal diagnostic tool.
• Respond to ad hoc technical assistance from beneficiary countries (Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines) on carbon pricing.
• Coordinate with joint activities of IISD’s Energy, Trade, and Infrastructure/Finance teams.