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Climate resilience key to economic recovery in Africa
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
ECA partners ODI and ACET to research into how AfCFTA will promote post COVID-19 economic recovery
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to assist member states to develop their national African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) implementation strategy with an environmental bias in anticipation of
Thailand: COVID-19 delays tax reform plans
Thailand’s economy is currently at its weakest since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This has led the Thai government to put on hold its plans to undertake major reforms of
Reports
The Social Cost of Carbon: An Aggregate View from Latin America (ECLAC)
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean recently published a study that analyses the social cost of carbon (SCC) for the development of public policies on climate change
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2019 (WB)
The World Bank recently published their yearly report presenting the latest developments in carbon pricing around the world. Every year the impacts of climate change feel more immediate and daunting,
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019 (UN/DESA)
Attached is the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019, which was launched in New York on 21 May 2019. This updates
