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Eligibility Is Not Enough: Lessons from Colombia’s FAIA on Greening Agricultural Subsidies
Without explicit sustainability mechanisms, public finance for agriculture overwhelmingly flows to conventional, environmentally harmful practices. When fiscal instruments are designed around competitiveness or crisis response alone, the path of least
Greening Agricultural Support in Colombia: Evidence that Sustainability Need Not Come at the Cost of Productivity
Colombia’s extraordinary biodiversity sits in stark contradiction with a land use sector that generates over half of national emissions. The country allocates about 1.1% of its GDP to agricultural subsidies,
Ensuring an Inclusive Transition: How Data-Driven Fiscal Policy Protects Livelihoods in Brazil
As countries across Latin America accelerate their transition toward greener economies, fiscal policy is emerging as one of the most powerful levers to scale up Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Yet, the success of
Adapting, Surviving, Thriving: What can we learn from FfD4 in Seville?
With temperatures soaring well above 40 degrees Celsius, avoiding heat stress was a matter of survival as delegates and dignitaries descended on Seville, Spain for the Fourth UN Conference on
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies
One of the key objectives of the Paris Agreement is to align financial flows with pathways that lead to low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To achieve this, countries must not
Progress of, and lessons from, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership
The climate and environmental crisis is overwhelmingly caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which globally account for 86% of carbon emissions. Public finance – loans, guarantees, insurance and grants
