据今日油价网站3月2日消息 据《华尔街日报》援引声明草稿的报道，美国石油学会（API）将公布一项声明，认可碳定价是实现《巴黎气候变化协定》目标的一种手段。
《华尔街日报》引述声明称：“美国石油学会支持将整个经济体的碳定价作为政府减少二氧化碳排放量的主要气候政策工具，同时帮助保持能源价格合理，而不是强制或规定性的监管行动。”
同时根据声明，碳定价将是最经济的减排方式。
碳定价一直是美国能源行业和政府讨论的一个有争议的话题。
例如，去年包括华尔街顶级银行在内的一批公司敦促华盛顿为碳定价，以减轻温室气体排放对经济的影响，更具体地说，是对金融体系的影响。
当时美国商品期货交易委员会委托的一份报告发现，实体风险和转型风险都可能引发系统性和次系统性金融冲击，可能对金融市场和金融机构的正常运作造成前所未有的破坏。
“这份报告从一个基本的发现开始，金融市场只有在整个经济体的碳排放价格能够反映这些排放的真实社会成本的情况下，才能有效地将资源引导到减少温室气体排放的活动中，”作者写道。
民主党议员不止一次试图赢得对碳定价倡议的支持，但在奥巴马的两个任期内，他们都无一例外地失败了。与此同时，鼓励可再生能源发电和其他减排举措在控制排放方面取得了一定效果，这就是为什么本届政府主要押注于继续这一进程。
然而，最近来自美国国家科学、工程和医学院的一份新报告提醒称，如果不对碳排放定价，拜登政府的绿色计划将会失败。
王磊 摘译自 今日油价
原文如下：
API Expected To Endorse Carbon Pricing
The American Petroleum Institute is set to unveil a declaration in which it endorses carbon pricing as a means of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing a draft version of the statement.
“API supports economy-wide carbon pricing as the primary government climate policy instrument to reduce CO2 emissions while helping keep energy affordable, instead of mandates or prescriptive regulatory action,” the WSJ quoted the statement as saying.
Also according to the statement, carbon pricing would be the most economical way to reduce emissions.
Carbon pricing has been a controversial topic of discussion in the U.S. energy industry and in government.
Last year, for instance, BP was among a group of companies, including top Wall Street banks, that urged Washington to put a price on carbon to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on the economy and, more specifically, the financial system.
A report commissioned by the CFTC at the time found that “Both physical and transition risks could give rise to systemic and sub-systemic financial shocks, potentially causing unprecedented disruption in the proper functioning of financial markets and institutions.”
“This report begins with a fundamental finding—financial markets will only be able to channel resources efficiently to activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions if an economy-wide price on carbon is in place at a level that reflects the true social cost of those emissions,” the authors wrote.
Democratic legislators tried more than once to win support for carbon pricing initiatives, but they invariably failed during the two Obama terms. Meanwhile, incentives for renewable power generation and other emission-reducing initiatives have had some effect in reining in emissions, which is why the current administration is betting mainly on continuing this course.
Recently, however, a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine warned that the Biden administration’s green plans will fail without putting a price on carbon.
