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Green fiscal policies for a sustainable and resilient COVID-19 recovery

As governments embark on resourcing and legislating COVID-19 relief and recovery measures, green fiscal policy approaches can play a key role in helping countries build back better. In the short-term, carbon taxation and/or fossil fuel subsidy reform can help generate and re-allocate significant resources for COVID-19 relief and recovery measures, while green budgeting can be a valuable instrument for medium-to long-term rationalisation and alignment of budgetary processes with government objectives for a sustainable and resilient post COVID-19 socio-economy.

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IMF Special Series on Fiscal Policies to Respond to COVID-19 – Greening the Recovery

Fiscal policy across the globe is rightly focused on fighting the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. But the climate change crisis remains, as does the need for decisive policy action to address it. Indeed, decisions taken now to address the COVID-19 crisis may shape the climate, and human health, for decades.

While periodic international monitoring on fossil fuel subsidies is carried out by international organisations such as the OECD, IMF and IEA, reporting under the SDG12.c.1 indicator will be the first attempt to systemically monitor fossil fuel subsidies to both consumption and production based on national data from 193 UN member countries and to collect this using an internationally agreed methodology. This monitoring and reporting on fossil fuel subsidies will help to increase transparency on fossil fuel subsidies, providing comparable data to allow the tracking of national and global trends.

Green Stimulus Index – An assessment of the orientation of COVID-19 stimulus in relation to climate change, biodiversity and other environmental impacts

Over the past 2 months the world has witnessed unprecedented government financial interventions in response to Covid-19.The coronavirus shows us that our fate is inextricably linked to that of the natural world, and governments have the opportunity and responsibility to ensure short-term emergency measures lead to a better more resilient future. The Green Stimulus Index examines 11 major economies to assess the green vs. brown orientation of their stimulus funding.

This OECD brief proposes immediate steps that governments can take to ensure that emergency measures implemented to tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis do not derail their efforts to address pressing environmental challenges and improve the environmental health and resilience of societies.

UNEP study on reducing pollution and health impacts through fiscal policies – A selection of good practices

2020-08-19 No Comments

Pollution is one of the major challenges of our time, affecting human health and the environment. Pollution also has economic costs linked to effects on

UNEP Policy Brief – Fiscal Policies To Address Air Pollution From Road Transport In Cities And Improve Health: Insights From Country Experiences And Lessons For Indonesia

2020-09-08 No Comments

This policy brief aims to summarise and support recent efforts of the Indonesian and DKI Jakarta government to reduce air pollution. It analyses the impact

Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World

2020-09-22 No Comments

Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and work. However, macroeconomists have long ignored them in

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