Edenhofer on the need for a carbon price

Ottmar Edenhofer is deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. In 2008, he was appointed the co-chair of working group III (WG3) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which focused on the "mitigation of climate change". In 2012, he was appointed director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change.

In an interview with Carbon Brief, he explains why he thinks implementing a carbon price is so important...