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P4G Summit to Chart Path to Green Recovery, Carbon Neutrality by 2050
In the run-up to the 2021 Seoul Summit, convened by Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G), the SDG Knowledge Hub is previewing how, through dedicated sessions, the Summit
World Must Move From Pledges to Actual Green Recovery Spending
In the wake of a once-in-a-generation pandemic and economic crisis, spending on green recoveries is less than an average year’s worth of subsidies on fossil fuels. March 2021 marked the
Redirect harmful subsidies to benefit the planet, UN urges governments
Head of the Kunming biodiversity summit asks nations to review destructive support for fishing, agriculture and other industries By Patrick Greenfield Billions of pounds of environmentally harmful government subsidies must
Reports
Scaling-up Finance Mechanisms for Biodiversity (OECD)
This report by the OECD considers the opportunities for scaling-up finance for biodiversity from six so-called “innovative financial mechanisms”, as classified under the Convention on Biological Diversity. These are environmental
Innovative instruments for conservation funding (IEEP)
This report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and partners provides an assessment of a number of novel economic instruments – ecological fiscal transfers (EFT), tax reliefs, marketed
Public incentives harmful to biodiversity (Centre d’Analyse Stratégique)
This report sets out the findings of a working group, chaired by Guillaume Sainteny, tasked with identifying French public subsidies and fiscal incentives harmful to biodiversity and options for reform in order to reduce
