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Kazakhstan energy price uprising risks another blow to carbon pricing

Published 20:03 on January 5, 2022  /  Last updated at 00:30 on March 19, 2022  / Katherine Monahan /  Asia Pacific, Carbon Taxes, International

Unprecedented protests in Kazakhstan over a gas price hike this week have seen the government quickly roll back energy policy reforms, endangering the development of one of the region’s carbon markets in a further example of the political challenges of the clean energy transition.
Unprecedented protests in Kazakhstan over a gas price hike this week have seen the government quickly roll back energy policy reforms, endangering the development of one of the region’s carbon markets in a further example of the political challenges of the clean energy transition.


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