National Emissions Trading System: Background Paper
2021-03-23
Why do we need national emissions trading? In view of the major challenge that climate change poses to present and future generations due to greenhouse
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Taxing Energy Use for Sustainable Development: Opportunities for energy tax and subsidy reform in selected developing and emerging economies (OECD)
2021-03-23
Economic recovery programmes provide opportunities for countries to focus on strategies for pursuing sustainable development, while taking the necessary steps to mobilise domestic resources. Sustainable
Adaptation Gap Report 2020
2021-01-19
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
Doubling Back and Doubling Down: G20 Scorecard on Fossil Fuel Funding
2020-11-18
Published by Overseas Development Institute (ODI), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and Oil Change International (OCI). In this new report we consider recovery commitments and
Greening the Recovery (IMF)
2020-11-11
Fiscal policy across the globe is rightly focused on fighting the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. But the climate change crisis remains, as does the need for
Designing fossil fuel subsidy reforms in OECD and G20 countries (OECD)
2020-11-11
A robust sequential approach methodology Reform of support for fossil fuels is often identified as a priority for a country’s fiscal consolidation efforts and for
Carbon Taxes Do Not Harm Jobs or Economic Growth (Resources for the Future)
2020-11-04
Gilbert Metcalf and James Stock Results from two recent analyses suggest that implementing a carbon tax has no discernible detrimental effects on employment and GDP growth. Economists
U.K. Spending 32 Times More On Fossil Fuels Than Renewables: Wärtsilä Report
2020-11-03
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
Whose Green Recovery? Why poorer countries must not be left behind by richer countries’ recovery plans (ACT Alliance)
2020-10-26
Poor countries could turn to fossil fuels as ‘green recovery’ leaves them behind says new report. A new report from development charity Christian Aid has
Baker Institute team says fossil fuel subsidies need global reform
2020-10-26
Fossil fuels still receive most of the international government support provided to the energy sector despite their “well-known environmental and public health damage,” according to
