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About CPA

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Who we are

Our Members

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Our Co-Chairs

Our Workplan

Who We Are

CPA is a Pan-American carbon-pricing collaborative and networking forum. We are a gathering of national and subnational governments and are supported by specialized institutions and not-for-profit organizations.
CPA arose out of the “Paris declaration on Carbon Pricing in the Americas” that was endorsed in December 2017 by governments of Alberta, British Columbia, California, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, and Washington.
CPA was launched in April 2018 at the initiative of the Governments of Canada and Mexico, who then assumed its co-chairmanship. In 2021, during COP 26 in Glasgow, most of the original CPA members as well as new governments replaced the Paris Declaration by an updated version: the “Glasgow Declaration on Carbon Pricing in the Americas”.
In endorsing the Glasgow Declaration members commit to the following:
  • Implementing or pursuing the implementation of carbon pricing as a central economic and environmental policy instrument for ambitious climate change action and as a key component of a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Working towards applying a cost of carbon to their public investment decisions, and encouraging private companies to do the same through internal carbon pricing;
  • Regularly increasing the level of carbon pricing in their economies to better reflect the ever-increasing cost of abatement action and the social cost of carbon to ensure that strong price signals are sent throughout their economies at the pace and scale required for transformational change;
  • Persuing the implementation of the CPA by:
      • Strengthening regional and international cooperation in an effort to share information, expertise, lessons learned and experiences;
      • Identifying opportunities to increase the alignment and linking of carbon pricing instruments and carbon markets;
  • Pursuing the implementation of the CPA by:
    • Strengthening regional and international cooperation in an effort to share information, expertise, lessons learned and experiences;
    • Identifying opportunities to increase the alignment and linking of carbon pricing instruments and carbon markets;
  • Encouraging synergies and coordination among the existing carbon pricing initiatives and forums that are active in the Americas.
CPA operations and activities are guided by the Glasgow Declaration

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Our Co-Chairs

CPA is guided by our elected co-chairs. Co-chairs serve a 2-year staggered term.

Mark Sippola

North America Co-Chair

Mark Sippola​

North America Co-Chair

Mark Sippola is the Chief of the Cap-and-Trade Program at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) responsible for leading teams that cover auctions, allowance allocation, market monitoring and oversight, the compliance offset program, registry development and maintenance, and program linkage. His duties include collaboration with other governments exploring cost-effective carbon pricing mechanisms. He joined the California Cap-and-Trade Program in 2013 and has over a decade of experience working on its design and implementation, including close involvement in the formal public processes to amend the Cap-and-Trade Program in 2016 and 2018. Prior to working at CARB, he conducted research on airflow and pollutant exposure at two U.S. Department of Energy national labs. Mark has a doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University, and he is a licensed chemical engineer.

Ricardo Torres

Central/South America Co-Chair

Ricardo Torres

Central/South America Co-Chair

Ricardo Torres is Environmental Chemical Engineer and an expert in implementing transformational policies on climate change. He studied for a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences in Querétaro. He is currently Undersecretary of the Environment at the Secretariat of Sustainable Development of the State of Querétaro, where his participation has been key in the formulation of public policies focused on climate change, low-emission transportation, biodiversity conservation, and integrated waste management. He also served for 10 years as a professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro. He has various specialties, including Environmental Impact and Climate Change, and Environmental Management of Megacities (studied in Osaka, Japan).

Our Workplan

Carbon Pricing in the Americas aims at offering a convivial space where governments of the Americas can gather with their peers and partners to learn and exchange views and ideas on mutual areas of interest. It also aims at fostering interactions between members and partners in the hopes of increasing collaboration and synergies in and out of the CPA.
Members and partners of the CPA generally meet every quarter, including during the annual General Assembly, either remotely or preferably, if circumstances allow, in person.
In each meeting, members and partners explore a technical and a practical approach to a topic suggested by members and co-chairs. In some instances, they are called upon to attend a deep-dive discussion to exchange on a specific issue in more detail.
CPA may also offer training courses in areas of interest to members, opportunities for internships, and so on.
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