To accelerate capital flows, low-carbon investments must offer an attractive risk-return profile relative to competing options. This webinar hosted by Robert Youngman (Team Leader, Green Finance and Investment, OECD) concerns
This 21st annual Chatham House Climate Change conference centers around the question of whether and how the ambition of policy-makers to take action on climate change needs to be reassessed
Recent years have seen renewed and growing interest in carbon taxes that put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This Guide by the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) provides
This paper by the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) reviews the key findings of a modeling analysis exploring the implications of a carbon tax in South Africa. The modeling work
11 April 2017 – The Vietnamese Finance Ministry recently published a proposal to increase the environmental protection tax on petroleum consumption from the current VNĐ1,000-4,000 to VNĐ3,000-8,000 per litre. The
13 April 2017 – Ivetta Gerasimchuk (Lead of Sustainable Energy Supplies, International Institute for Sustainable Development) argues that ending fossil fuel subsidies is a low hanging fruit for financing the
12 April 2017 – The Debate Over a Carbon Taxes, Cap and Trade, or Doing Nothing Matters to Environmentalists, but also State Budgets. Jeffrey Garceau (Associate Editor, MuniNet Guide) discusses
19 April 2017 – A joint investigation by Greenpeace Energydesk and Private Eye found that £6.9 billion in financial support has been provided to fossil fuel companies by the government
19 April 2017 – Maeve McLynn (Finance and Subsidies Policy Coordinator, Climate Action Network Europe) argues that the EU should continue its recent drive of tackling fossil fuel subsidies by
13 April 2017 – Ivetta Gerasimchuk and Peter Wooders (Energy experts at the International Institute for Sustainable Development) and Shelagh Whitley (Lead of the climate and energy programme at the Overseas Development Institute) argue
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