83 results found
IADB   |  
The Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling Framework: An Illustration with Guatemala's Forest and Fuelwood Sectors.

This paper develops and operationalizes the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) platform which integrates environmental data organized under the first international standard for environmental-economic accounting with a powerful economy-wide modelling approach. IEEM enables the ex-ante economic analysis of public policies and investment on the economy and the environment in a quantitative, comprehensive and consistent framework.



Category:  Promote Carbon Pricing Measures, Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning, Climate-Resilient Financial Sector
IMF   |  
Analyzing and Managing Fiscal Risks: Best Practices.

This paper provides a set of analytical tools and best practices to help policy makers understand and manage fiscal risks. Rather than seeking to provide an alternative to standard debt sustainability analysis, the paper’s focus is on how countries can assess and manage fiscal risks more broadly—including tail risks—and to better incorporate uncertainty into fiscal policy analysis. The paper is structured as follows.



Category:  Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning, Climate-Resilient Financial Sector
ClimaSouth Project   |  
Accessing Climate Finance: A Step-By-Step Approach for Practitioners.

This handbook is conceived as a toolbox for key government and other stakeholders in partner countries in their efforts to access climate finance. The ClimaSouth project uses an approach to access finance through learning-bydoing and capacity building. Facilitating the development of proposals and interfacing with sources of finance for climate-relevant/-specific projects and programs is the vehicle through which capacity for climate finance is further enhanced.



Category:  Climate-Resilient Financial Sector, NDC Support and Implementation
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Current Climate Models Are Grossly Misleading.

Nicholas Stern calls on scientists, engineers and economists to help policymakers by better modelling the immense risks to future generations, and the potential for action.



Category:  Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning
GIZ   |  
National Monitoring Approaches for Climate Change Public Finance.

This paper describes the opportunities and costs associated with the development of monitoring approaches for national climate change public finance. It describes a leading example of climate change budget tracking, summarises five tools that can support climate change financial monitoring, and identifies key enabling conditions for its effective application.



Category:  Climate-Resilient Financial Sector
CPLC   |  
What is the Impact of Carbon Pricing on Competitiveness? CPLC Executive Briefing.

Pricing carbon is one of the most powerful and efficient strategies that governments and businesses are using to respond to climate change. The principle is simple: put a price on carbon pollution to account for the impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that stem from the economic choices made by both producers and consumers.



Category:  Promote Carbon Pricing Measures, Share Experiences and Expertise
UNDP   |  
A Stock Take of Climate Change Financing Frameworks in Asia-Pacific

Climate Change Financing Frameworks (CCFFs) provide a structured response to climate change by establishing a framework for managing climate finance and gauging the adequacy and effectiveness of climate-related expenditures. This paper provides a summary of a comparative stock take of work related to CCFFs in the Asia-Pacific Region. UNDP’s Governance of Climate Change Finance Programme (GCCF) led
the Review (see Annex I for more information on GCCF).



Category:  Climate-Resilient Financial Sector
UNEP   |  
Fiscal Policy Scoping Study: Kenya

This working paper provides an overview of the current status of green fiscal policy (GFP) in Kenya, key challenges and opportunities for further green fiscal policy reforms. The paper also reviews government revenues and expenditures and analyses the potential for GFP in selected key sectors of the economy, including forestry, energy, mining and oil, water fisheries and wildlife.



Category:  Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning
GIZ, IISD   |  
Fiscal Instruments in INDCs: How countries are looking to fiscal policies to support INDC implementation?

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) (on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) have undertaken a rapid review of INDCs to highlight the countries that are using these tools as part of their INDCs, catalogue the different tools that countries are referencing in their INDCs, identify the frequency of their use and identify trends in how countries are planning to use fiscal instruments to support achievement of INDCs.



Category:  Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning
UNEP   |  
Fiscal Reforms in the Extractives Sector for Green Finance (UNEP)

A key challenge facing many resource-rich countries is how to mobilize and effectively use volatile revenues from resource extraction, while addressing social and environmental externalities of mining activities. This UNEP Policy Brief examines how fiscal reforms and other complementary measures in the extractives sector can help generate additional public revenues while reducing some of the negative environmental and social impacts from mining activities.



Category:  Promote Carbon Pricing Measures, Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning