India has set an ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022, including 100GW of solar power. Of that, the government aims for 60 GW to be utility-scale solar,
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
26 February 2018 – European Union nations are poised to endorse the biggest overhaul of the market they created more than a decade ago to rein in pollution, a move that
25 February 2018 – Italy’s Cassa depositi e prestiti Spa (CDP) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) met in London on February 23, 2018 to sign a new
23 February 2018 – The Vietnamese Finance Ministry has proposed raising environmental protection taxes on oil and petroleum products from July 1 to increase tax collection by 15,684 billion Vietnamese dong
22 February 2018 – Fossil-fuel subsidies may actually rise in Europe because of the switch to green energy. European Union governments will have to pay out increased compensation for closing coal-fired
The CIES is delighted to partner with the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) at the occasion of the launch of its three publications on green industrial policy: “Green Industrial Policy and Trade: A
19 February 2018 – Singapore said Monday it would impose a carbon tax from next year to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and make companies more competitive as global agreements on
18 February 2018 – Ministers have been warned that the UK risks forfeiting leadership of a promising new form of offshore wind power because of a withdrawal of subsidies which threatens
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
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