Events

The National Academy on Green Economy will bring together 150 participants from all nine provinces to share the latest thinking on South Africa’s green economy transition and contribute to enhancing institutional capacities for transformative at sub-national level. The Academy will include a half-day session on green fiscal policy. For information, please contact: greenjobs@itcilo.org or visit: www.itcilo.org/greenjobs Registrations are […]

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) will deliver the second edition of the moderated e-course ‘Green Fiscal Reform’ (in English) between 9 April – 1 June 2018. Fiscal policies widely impact supply and demand in the economy and are thus an important instrument in policymakers’ toolkit to drive the green transition. The course introduces various concepts, policy instruments and enabling […]

The 10th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) will focus on how engagement between State and non‐State actors can be further strengthened in the key sectors for Africa (energy, agriculture and human settlements), including the role of future carbon markets to achieve enhanced climate action, towards the goals of sustainable development. The event will cover: Practical examples […]

The Paris Agreement calls for nothing short of the global economic transformation, requiring a fundamental shift in the way most human beings organize their daily lives – from the goods we buy, to the way we light up our homes and power up mobile devices, to the transportation we take to work, to the food […]

Fossil fuel subsidies increase energy consumption and act as a barrier to clean energy technologies. As part of the Nordic Clean Energy Week, this event organised by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI)/International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) will discuss the potential for reform of fossil fuel subsidies and reallocation of a proportion of the savings […]

To achieve several of the SDGs and Aichi targets requires the phase out and reform of biodiversity harmful subsidies and the introduction of economic/fiscal incentives. To this end, the identification, definition and quantification of these subsidies is essential. This international workshop organised by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation of Germany (BfN) brought together scientists, practioners and […]

The purpose of the workshop is to consult Finnish experts on the different options to promote circular and low-carbon objectives that have been identified by the Institute for European Environmental Studies (IEEP), the Ex’Tax Project Foundation (Ex’Tax) and Green Budget Europe (GBE). The workshop will also look at state subsidies and provide a new opportunity […]

Over the last decade the use of markets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has come of age. Carbon markets are now in operation, in the pipeline or under consideration in a multitude of regional, national and sub-national jurisdictions around the world. With the recent announcement of a Chinese national emissions trading system, markets will soon […]

Sessions at the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics (WCERE) will discuss a number of different issues including 'Addressing Emissions Uncertainty with a Carbon Tax: Three Different Approaches', 'Energy Pricing: Theory and Evidence', 'Environmental Policy: Carbon Pricing', 'Environmental Policy: Market-based Instrument', and other issues. For further information, visit the WCERE event page.