Carbon pricing readiness to action: The PMR story Photo: elenabsl/Shutterstock Over the last decade, the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) has been the World Bank’s flagship technical assistance program on carbon pricing and carbon markets, supporting carbon pricing efforts in more than 20 countries. The PMR comes to an end in June, but support for carbon pricing will be very much alive. A new initiative launched earlier this year -- the Partnership for Market Implementation -- aims to support at least 10 countries to go to the next level and implement carbon pricing, and another 20 new countries to prepare for a carbon pricing. The experience gained through PMR will be invaluable as countries take these next steps.