CCLLAB Climate Change and Law Seminars – Dr. Tatiana Falcão

Kadir Has University Climate Change and Law Laboratory (CCLLAB) continues its series of events on legal aspects of Climate Change. At the fifth session of Climate Change and Law Seminars, we will be honored to welcome Dr. Tatiana Falcão with her lecture “Taxing Carbon to Tackle Climate Change” on February 23, Wednesday at 16.00 (Istanbul Time). 

Tatiana Falcão is the Coordinator for Helsinki Principle 3 (carbon pricing), at the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action. She is also a senior policy expert in international tax and environmental taxation, providing expert consultancy services to the World Bank, United Nations and the African Tax Administration (ATAF) Forum.

Tatiana is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Environmental Taxation, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Africa Tax Research Network (ATRN) of the Africa Tax Administration Forum (ATAF). She was previously with the U.N. Environment Program and U.N. DESA, overseeing the work of the Committee of Experts in International Cooperation in Tax Matters. Her research focuses on the interface between international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the impact on emerging economies. Her book A Proposition for a Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty was published by the IBFD in 2019.

Tatiana is a columnist at Tax Notes International and a frequent contributor to Kluwer International Law Tax Blog.

In 2019 Tatiana was named by the International Fiscal Association’s Women in Tax Committee one of the top 40 women-lawyers who have shaped international taxation over the last 100 years.

Tatiana is a graduate of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (AU, Ph.D), the University of Cambridge (UK, LL.M) where she was the editor and treasurer of the Cambridge Law Review, and New York University (USA, LL.M). Her bachelor in law was obtained at Universidade Candido Mendes (BRA), cuma sum laude.

The event will be held in English and open to the public via Zoom. No formal registration is required; we would appreciate, however if you confirm your participation by sending an e-mail to [email protected].

Zoom Meeting ID: 833 4714 3763 Password: 324054