Land-use change related to agriculture accounts for over 70% of tropical deforestation and roughly 25% of all GHG emissions. A major driver of these impacts is the widespread failure on the part of governments to implement green fiscal policies, e.g. reform of harmful subsidies, worth an average of USD 705 billion annually between 2016 and 2018 in the sector.
South Africa’s carbon tax laws are set to change with the international frameworks it aligns to, as reflected in the latest amendment to the carbon offset regulations.
Few countries in the region have tied green components to their stimulus packages, which contain some environmentally harmful measures. Green recovery policies and strategies can help put a country on the path to economic recovery while bringing environmental and sustainability benefits.
The African Union Commission launched a new five-year continental Green Recovery Action Plan 2021-2027. The launch was officiated by H.E Felix Tshisekedi, Chairperson of the African Union and President of
The Fifth African Climate Resilience Infrastructure Summit (ACRIS 5), held virtually last week, highlighted that integration of climate resilience in design and implementation of agribusiness, hydropower, transport corridors, urbanisation and vulnerable
Government of India planning to set aside Rs 20,000 under a new scheme to solarise agricultural feeders
The world is still grappling with the profound economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These impacts offer a glimpse of what the land use and agriculture sectors
The Departments of the Interior and Agriculture announced their proposed Fiscal Year 2022 allocations of $2.8 billion in projects, grants and programs authorized in the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA)
The White House wants to pay farmers for carbon in their soil. Sequestering carbon on farms is straightforward, but benefits are hard to measure. Some worry about creating another subsidy.
The carbon tax will add about 11 cents per litre for gasoline and diesel next year, growing to almost 40 cents by 2030 In our last article we discussed the Supreme
European Union agriculture ministers said negotiators are close to a deal that aims to reform the bloc’s huge farming subsidy programme, protect small farms and bring agriculture in line with
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