Pei Wei Benjamin Yang

Environmental Sustainability Carbon Market

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Pei Wei Benjamin Yang is a recent graduate from the Yale NUS college, He has extensive experience in conducting policy research on issues such as carbon pricing, just transitions, air pollution management, and net-zero targets (on both state- and corporate-levels) across different geopolitical settings, but particularly in East Asia.

Pei Wei Benjamin Yang

Aug 27 2022

Carbon Tax in Singapore: What you need to know

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Environmental Sustainability · Carbon Market

As the Singaporean government is set to announce its revised carbon tax rate in the upcoming Budget 2022, oil firms have urged to maintain it at a level that would allow them to remain competitive, while Members of Parliament and activists alike have stressed the need to raise the rate and expand its scope. So, what exactly is a carbon tax and how does it work (or not)?