The health of citizens is the first priority for governments responding to the COVID‑19 pandemic, but the need to limit the economic impacts of the crisis is also of great concern. Many governments are considering how to stimulate their economies once the pandemic is brought under control. In these efforts to safeguard economic stability, energy efficiency has a strong role to play in boosting jobs and economic growth while also supporting clean energy transitions around the world.
This paper discusses the impacts of climate change policy and the financial benefits of countries following their current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
This paper calls for a public finance package, along with additional public and private investment, to contribute to France's post-COVID-19 recovery in a way that does not jeopardise France's commitments to international climate goals.
This study considers the main findings from the Good Practice Database cases and provides recommendations and key factors for success.
This brief outlines the current state of global finance for climate adaptation, presenting the significant data and theoretical gaps that exist in adaptation finance reporting, along with a brief overview of potential new data sources and recommendations to improve adaptation finance tracking.
These resources complied by the OECD discuss the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of business and economic factors.