Getting rid of infectious organic waste in hospitals through low-tech, sustainable biogesters not only captures methane gas and turns it into low-cost biogas, but it also reduces air pollution and its impact on climate change.
The Green Stimulus Index, produced by Vivid Economics in partnership with Finance for Biodiversity (F4B), shines a light on how much money is flowing where and what this means for environmentally-friendly outcomes.
As governments embark on resourcing and legislating COVID-19 relief and recovery measures, green fiscal policy approaches can play a key role in helping countries build back better. In the short-term, carbon taxation and/or fossil fuel subsidy reform can help generate and re-allocate significant resources for COVID-19 relief and recovery measures, while green budgeting can be a valuable instrument for medium-to long-term rationalisation and alignment of budgetary processes with government objectives for a sustainable and resilient post COVID-19 socio-economy.
The international community is buzzing with talks on how to rebuild trade as part of the post-COVID-19 economic recovery, but nuanced views on how governments should pursue trade recovery are disturbingly scarce. Here are ten ways governments can ensure trade policy is an integral part of building back better.
While carbon pricing and sustainable financing are important tools to combatting climate change, investing in clean energy technologies are the best way to achieving net-zero carbon emissions.
The move to achieving net-zero carbon emissions must happen as quickly as possible and at scale to combat climate change. To achieve real, quantifiable impacts, we must explore and invest in all possible policy solutions, among them carbon pricing, sustainable finance and the promotion of clean energy technology.
There are two ways to respond to the COVID-19 crisis: economic revitalization that supports sustainability, or trading one crisis for another. Reigniting the economy, securing jobs and saving businesses requires solutions that avoid the false trade-off between environmental protection and economic activity. The COVID-19 crisis as seen by Benjamin Simmons, founding head of the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP).
This opinion paper discusses the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on industry and the economy, which in the SSA context, has the potential of putting people’s lives at equal risk as contracting the virus. On this basis, the article develops policy recommendations that are likely to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 in the short and medium term, and ensure the necessary continuation and reshaping of industrial businesses given the region’s poverty and dependence on foreign markets.
The full force of the COVID-19 pandemic might not have yet hit the Arab world, but economic contagion has certainly arrived.
As China emerges from the coronavirus crisis, the government is assessing the opportunities and challenges as it looking to further invest in ICT and other digital technologies as part of the country’s recovery efforts.
Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to mitigate the economic fallout of COVID-19. Their decisions in the weeks and months ahead will shape our lives for years to come. The fiscal packages that are being adopted as well as the funding that central banks are making available will have significant effects on livelihoods.