Blogs
Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective is Green Quantitative Easing?
This piece, based on an INSPIRE-funded research project, examines whether a combination of green quantitative easing (a monetary policy) and a global carbon tax (a fiscal policy) can effectively contribute to climate mitigation.
How to Cut Emissions Equal to 3.8 Billion Cars/Year
Fossil fuel subsidy reform is a smart tool to fight climate change because it helps reduce substantial amounts of emissions while not costing governments them anything, and it can support sustainable growth by investing subsidy savings.
Tackling the climate crisis together with delivering on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Continuation of the current, at best incremental, policies to tackle these global environmental and social crises, will no longer be sufficient. Instead we need an ambitious and integrated strategy to tackle them jointly.
Using Machine Learning to Make Government Spending Greener
A groundbreaking pilot project undertaken by UNEP and UNCTAD shows how machine learning models can predict the environmental impacts of development spending. This data-driven approach can guide scarce public finance flows with sustainability and national development goals in mind.
How Green Public Investment Can Aid Postcrisis Recovery
Public investment is likely to be an important component of any postcrisis recovery program. As countries work to ensure smart, green, fair recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, investing in modern, resilient, and efficient infrastructure assets will be key.
The triple crisis needs a new response
The economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have hit the most marginalized and vulnerable first and most directly, creating the need to react immediately. However, resilience building is becoming even more challenging in many countries of the Global South due to intersecting climate and debt challenges.
