In a recently published Op-ed, the Chairman of Eunomia Research & Consulting, Dominic Hogg, shares his views on how the fiscal and financial system can help address the environmental crisis.
He argues that to facilitate and accelerate the greening of the economy, a simultaneous shift in policy and finance is required, and they need to co-evolve. He defends that governments ought to focus on taxing activities that generate environmental problems instead of relying on taxes on income, labour, value-added or profit to generate income to fund state activities. Fiscal policy, in his opinion, is a one-step change that can help incentivize action and send signals to the finance community to prevent investment in projects that cause harm to the environment.
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