Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Pietro Pizzuto, and Nadia Shakoor explore the economic implications of climate change policies, especially focusing on the potential burden on households. Their research aims to evaluate
Jean Pisani-Ferry published a paper within the Bruegel and Peterson Institute for International Economics emphasizing the need to rethink climate change policies as part of a structural reform. Evidence lies
“More policies do not necessarily equate to better outcomes. Instead, the right mix of measures is crucial. For example, subsidies or regulations alone are insufficient; only in combination with price-based
Jinfang TIAN, Siyang SUN, Wei CAO, Di BUE, and Rui XUE investigated the impact of public environmental regulation on the allocation of green credit to promote a shift towards a
Anna Bartocci, Alessandro Notarpietro, and Massimiliano Pisani explore the impact of a green fiscal policy that is designed to address the impact of climate change on macroeconomy and monetary policy,
The jointly develped UNEP-University of Oxford Sustainable Budgeting Approach (SBA) is a decision-support tool designed to help policymakers identify and resource strategic policy opportunities that promote national economic development while
How can fiscal policy support socio-economic development, and the environment? Join H.E. Minister Lee White of Gabon to explore new practical methods for understanding potential policy impacts during budget planning.
Greta Thunberg’s accusation that world leaders are guilty of ‘blah, blah, blah’ in the face of the escalating climate crisis is ‘spot on’, according to a trio of new reports released today, which warn the opportunity provided by the coronavirus crisis to introduce sweeping fossil fuel subsidy reform and ambitious green stimulus packages is being squandered.
Moving the economy to net zero – emitting less carbon dioxide than it consumes – will be messy and expensive unless the government has a radical rethink about how to simplify its approach to taxing greenhouse gas production.
The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF found the production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidised by $5.9tn in 2020, with not a single country pricing all its fuels sufficiently to reflect their full supply and environmental costs.
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