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|Update On Recent Progress in Reform of Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies that Encourage Wasteful Consumption.This report documents progress made in conducting peer reviews of economies’ policies supporting fossil fuels, highlights recent developments in policy reforms around the world, and summarises other significant developments to further the goal of fossil-fuel subsidy reform. Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures |
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WBG, OECD |Managing Disaster Risk Related Contingent Liabilities in Public Finance Frameworks, OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, No 27Natural disasters have caused, and continue to cause, a significant amount of economic costs. The costs of disasters are often, and to a large extent, shouldered by governments, especially in economies where private insurance markets are not well developed. Governments are asked to provide financing for explicit commitments made prior to a disaster, and are often under pressure to make payments for which no such commitments were made earlier. Category: Climate-Informed Fiscal Planning, Align Policies with Paris Agreement |
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UNDP |Hard Choices Integrated Approaches: A Guidance Note of Climate Change Financing Frameworks.This Note outlines the core elements, processes, workfows, and outputs of a Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF). This is achieved by reviewing the roles and value-added aspects that a CCFF plays in facilitating a whole of government response to the challenges presented by climate change. Category: Climate-Resilient Financial Sector, NDC Support and Implementation |
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WBG |Emission Trading in PracticeThis learning builds on the successful report, ‘Emissions Trading in Practice: Handbook for Design and Implementation’, developed by the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) and International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP). Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures |
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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 |
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WBG, PMR |Modeling the Impact on South Africa’s Economy of Introducing a Carbon Tax (2016)This paper reviews the key findings of a modeling analysis exploring the implications of the South African carbon tax. A carbon tax, in conjunction with the recycling of revenues, has been designed by the National Treasury as one of the key mitigation instruments in helping South Africa meet its international commitments to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 42 percent relative to business-as-usual by 2025 and for emissions to follow a ‘peak plateau and then decline’ trajectory. Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures |
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Others |It Is All About Political Incentives: Democracy and the Renewable Feed-In Tariff.Demand for renewable energy is booming. Scholars often attribute this success to feed-in tariffs (FITs), which mandate that energy utilities pay a premium to renewable electricity producers and guarantee grid access for them. Why have so many countries, including least-developed ones, adopted these policies? Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures |
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PMR |Emissions Trading in Practice: A Handbook on Design and ImplementationThis handbook is a guide for policymakers, as well as practitioners towards implementing an ETS. It consolidates a decade of experience with emissions trading worldwide alongside insights from the academic literature on the topic. Synthesizing input from over 100 practitioners and technical experts from four continents, it lays out a 10-step process with regards to the design, implementation, and operation of an effective ETS. Both the PMR and ICAP use the handbook as part of their ongoing ETS capacity building efforts. Category: Promote Carbon Pricing Measures |
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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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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 |
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