Energy
News
Role of Fiscal Policies in a Green COVID-19 Recovery: Experience, Best Practice and Next Steps in the Asia-Pacific Region
This workshop, organized by GFPN and UNESCAP, explored the potential role of green fiscal policies in greening the Covid-19 recovery with the aim of supporting public health efforts, reducing environmental and climate change risks, and strengthening resilience to future crises by embedding inclusive and sustainable socio-economic considerations in national economic planning.
Budgeting for Sustainable Development – GFPN – University of Oxford COP26 side-event
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.
Land grab: How agri-subsidies encourage Irish farmers to cut back on nature
Irish farmers continue to see annual payments penalised for maintaining biodiversity hotspots despite concerns raised by the State over the climate and biodiversity crises.
Reports
Adaptation Gap Report 2020
The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020 finds that while nations have advanced in planning, huge gaps remain in finance for developing countries and bringing adaptation projects to the stage where
U.K. Spending 32 Times More On Fossil Fuels Than Renewables: Wärtsilä Report
The U.K. government is squandering an opportunity to move towards a zero carbon future by pumping billions of stimulus cash into fossil fuels and all but neglecting renewable energy, according
Towards a green fiscal reform in the Slovak Republic (OECD)
Environmental fiscal reforms are an essential building block to steer countries onto a sustainable long-term development path. This paper develops proposals for strengthening the role of market-based environmental policy instruments
Policy Briefs
Phasing Out Fossil-Fuel Subsidies in the G20: A Progress Update (Earth Track)
This briefing by Earth Track reviews progress among G20 nations in implementing their 2009 commitment to ‘rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful
G20 Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Phase Out: A review of current gaps and needed changes to achieve success (Earth Track)
In 2009, the G20 nations committed to ‘rationalize and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption’. This briefing by Earth Track reviews the reporting and
