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Climate action: “It’s now!” – green affordable housing in Luxembourg (RTL Today)
Minister for the Environment Carole Dieschbourg and Minister for Energy Claude Turmes presented Luxembourg’s green relaunch plan, focusing on various support packages that owners who renovate their homes can apply
Europe’s Recovery Plan Has Green Strings Attached (Bloomberg)
The article adresses the EU’s recovery plan, which will build on the EU Green Deal as a motor for growth as well as on the requirement to align with green
COVID-19: Opportunities for a Green Recovery (IMF)
In his opening remarks, Tao Zhang, IMF Deputy Managing Director, elaborates on important steps to ensure a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, including sustainable finance and carbon pricing. To
Public finance and development: top things to read on fiscal responses to Covid-19 (ODI)
Economists seem to agree that the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis calls for different kinds of macroeconomic responses relative to past recessions, including fiscal measures. This ODI article lists the most important publications
Greening Fiscal Stimulus and Finance Packages to Achieve the SDGs (UNEP)
“A recovery from the coronavirus crisis must not take us just back to where we were last summer. It is an opportunity to build more sustainable and inclusive economies and
Fiscal Policies for the Recovery from COVID-19 (IMF blog)
Fiscal policies have provided large emergency lifelines to people and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also invaluable to increase a country’s readiness to respond to a crisis and
The world urgently needs to expand its use of carbon prices (The Economist)
If economists ruled the world, carbon prices would drive most of the action on climate change. Polluters would pay for the negative externality their emissions inflict on the planet. There
COVID-19 is a chance to end harmful fishing subsidies. Here’s why we must take it (World Economic Forum)
The COVID-19 recovery is a chance to foster a truly sustainable ocean economy. To that end, the world must work together to end harmful subisidies that encourage overfishing and exploitation.
End of the road for fossil fuel subsidies (POLITICO)
How financially sustainable is an industry if it is distorted by $5 trillion in annual subsidies? That’s the challenge laid out by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is
