FINANCE MINISTRIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD MET IN COPENHAGEN TO TALK ABOUT THE GREEN TRANSITION

Finance ministries from over 45 countries, along with experts from international institutions, universities, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations around the world, gathered last week in Copenhagen to discuss the green transition.

How can we bring climate into the very core of global macroeconomic models? 

And how can better analytical tools provide the world’s finance ministers with the necessary means to take leadership in the fight against climate change?

Check out the videos to find out the answers:

"Mainstreaming climate is about taking one step at a time to make sure that these questions are addressed in a way that means that action follows, that policy choices can be made," says Andy King, author of the Thematic Report: "How Finance Ministries Can Assess the Fiscal Challenges and Opportunities from Green and Resilient Transitions". Watch the video here

In this report, you can discover available analytical tools and emerging good practices, focusing on the ways in which climate-related issues can affect public finances and how MoFs can assess the impacts using existing data, analytical tools, and approaches. Read the report here

"We live already with climate change, and the physical risks are already here - and they will get worse. Investing in resilience is a good fiscal policy. The next step is taking into account what we know and implementing it," says Prof. Swenja Surminski, encouraging people to read the report showing the existing tools for Ministries of Finance to be pragmatic about their decisions: Watch the video here Read the report here

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