Insights Blog

The recent conference held in Venice (organized by the Green Growth Knowledge Platform) brought the importance of implementing properly designed green fiscal reforms to the attention of academics and policymakers in most world countries. The objective is obviously environmental protection and climate change control, but also the setting of fairly uniform regulatory and taxation frameworks to avoid competitiveness concerns in those countries adopting more stringent environmental policies. Or to avoid excessive social problems in developing countries, because social impacts of green fiscal reforms are of often as important as the environmental ones.

Sam Bickersteth, CDKN’s Chief Executive, and Ari Huhtala, Deputy CEO, report from the GGKP's Third Annual Conference.

Simon Zadek, Co-Director of UNEP's Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, reflects upon the initiative's progress since its inception in January 2014.

Steven Stone, Chief of UNEP's Economics and Trade Branch, reflects on the outcomes from the GGKP's Third Annual Conference and the pressing need to re-align our policies towards a green economy.

Mike Young, Professor of Environmental and Water Policy at the University of Adelaide, discusses how we might better invest in the maintenance, operation and construction of the infrastructure needed to supply adequate water and sanitation services.

Shailly Kedia and Manish Anand of The Energy and Resources Institute share details on the newly launched "International Journal on Green Growth and Development".

Sirini Withana of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, outlines how we might overcome obstacles to green fiscal reform, based on her research commissioned for the GGKP's upcoming Annual Conference in Venice, Italy.

Dr Baran Doda explains the findings of his latest report, ‘How to price carbon in good times… and bad’ published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science. The report was sponsored by the Global Green Growth Institute.

In this special edition of the GGKP "Insights" blog, Dr. Carlo Carraro, Dr. Suneel Pandey and Dr. Steven Stone, organizers of the GGKP's next Annual Conference, present the case for using fiscal policy to achieve economic, social and environmental goals - outlining the opportunities and challenges which exist in practice.

Marouissa Kelp of the OECD presents new research showing that well-designed green policies not only secure long-term wellbeing, but can uphold current productivity levels too.