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Fiscal policies against climate change can help create 15 million jobs — IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is recommending that finance and planning ministries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) consider fiscal policies to accelerate the transition to green economies and pave the way for the region to meet decarbonisation goals.
New Malawi initiative to restore 25,000 hectares of forest landscape
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources, have launched a project which targets forest
African campaigners urge climate action to hasten green recovery
Sub-Saharan African countries should intensify action on climate change concurrently with COVID-19 containment in order to realize a speedy, inclusive and green recovery, campaigners said on Tuesday. Mithika Mwenda, executive
Reports
Exploring the Trade Impacts of Fossil Fuel Subsidies (GSI)
In recent years, growing attention has been given in various contexts to fossil fuel subsidies and the need to reform them. Discussion on the topic, however, has focused almost exclusively
Global Landscape of Climate Finance (Buchner, Clark, Falconer, Macquarie, Meattle and Wetherbee 2019)
In this new report, launched ahead of COP25, the authors track the newest patterns in climate finance, which crossed the USD half-trillion mark for the first time in 2017/2018. Average
How to Mitigate Climate Change (IMF’s Fiscal Monitor, 2019)
The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor asserts that limiting the planet’s warming to 2 degrees Celsius will require raising the carbon tax to $75 (from the current average of $2) per ton