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Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting: Joining forces towards our green commitments
Reaching our commitments to fight the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental degradation requires concrete, innovative, and systematic approaches. The OECD-based Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting brings
Measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Environment ministers from around the world are meeting in New York this week to review the progress of several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of the goals to be reviewed
How can Sovereign Wealth Funds be encouraged to go green?
Environmental investments make up just 1% of the assets of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). As these public institutional investors have the capacity to deploy enormous capital to green long-term investments,
Tax Expenditures and the Environment: Strengthening the Spotlight
Tax expenditures are significant and have wide ranging environmental implications. Tax benefits for fossil fuels are a case in point, but the scope to align tax expenditures with a broad
Building civil society capacity to support environmental tax reform
A new study for the European Commission investigates civil society’s role in improving the effectiveness of environmental taxes for pollution reduction and natural resource management. Forty new case studies reveal
Shaking the money pot to protect nature
Nature gives us a lot: water, timber, minerals, biodiversity, food, clean air…The perceived abundance of natural capital, often treated as endless and free, is leading to overuse and underinvestment. With
