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IMF |Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and ImplicationsEnergy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital-intensive industries, reducing incentives for investment in renewable energy, and accelerating the depletion of natural resources. Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures, Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning |
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G20, OECD |Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing: A G20/OECD Methodological Framework.This methodological framework for disaster risk assessment and risk financing is intended to help finance ministries and other governmental authorities in developing more effective disaster risk management strategies and, in particular, financial strategies, building on strengthened risk assessment and risk financing. Category: Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning, Climate-Resilient Financial Sector |
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WBG |‘Green’ Growth, ‘Green’ Jobs and Labor MarketsThe term ‘green jobs’ can refer to employment in a narrowly defined set of industries providing environmental services. But it is more useful for the policy-maker to focus on the broader issue of the employment consequences of policies to correct environmental externalities such as anthropogenic climate change. Most of the literature focuses on direct employment created, with more cursory treatment of indirect and induced job creation, especially that arising from macroeconomic effects of policies. Category: Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning, Align Policies with Paris Agreement, NDC Support and Implementation |
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WBG |From Growth to Green Growth: A Framework (2011)Green growth is about making growth processes resource efficient, cleaner and more resilient without necessarily slowing them. This paper aims at clarifying these concepts in an analytical framework and at proposing foundations for green growth. Category: Climate-Resilient Financial Sector, Align Policies with Paris Agreement, Share Experiences and Expertise, NDC Support and Implementation |
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WBG |Environmental Fiscal Reform: What Should Be Done and How to Achieve ItThe term environmental fiscal reform (EFR) means different things to different people. In this report, we will take EFR to mean: a range of taxation or pricing instruments that can raise revenue, while simultaneously furthering environmental goals. This is achieved by providing economic incentives to correct market failure in the management of natural resources and the control of pollution. Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures, Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning |
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