The economic recovery from COVID-19 is taking hold in countries around the world, but governments face a challenge as the shift from short-term stimulus measures to deeper structural ones. Green stimulus measures saw success where they were deployed after 2008-10, but the opportunity to build green structural measures on this foundation were missed.
With governments at risk of following this path post-COVID, this paper provides the outline of the structural green recovery agenda, and gives a tentative mapping of the prioritization criteria governments might consider in designing structural reform packages.
It also provides insights into the thematic and implementation gaps in the green structural reform agenda as currently conceived, identifies the financial barriers facing a successful structural green recovery, and gives examples and case studies of green structural policies that have already been deployed with some success.