The aim of this note is to show how NDC enhancement and economic recovery plans can intersect and reinforce each other to help countries’ economic recovery while addressing the climate crisis. This is one piece of a three-part series, with a specific focus on the agriculture and forest sectors. Other expert notes in the series address how economic recovery packages and NDC actions can be integrated in the power and transport sectors.
This report proposes a series of actions that governments can undertake to achieve a fossil-free recovery, following five key principles that countries can apply to transition to a low-carbon economy while using their energy systems to boost their economies, create employment, and meet their climate and development goals.
The Mediterranean tourism, severely impacted by the travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is now at a crossroad. Ambitious, green and inclusive recovery plans are therefore strongly needed to ensure a positive future to the Mediterranean tourism and contribute to a prosperous region.
This expert note provides a review of the pandemic’s impact on the transport sector, a rationale for economic recovery through transport, NDC-related measures captured in economic recovery discussions, and guidance for NDC and recovery alignment.
Post-COVID financial regulatory policy must incorporate awareness that its starting point is very unusual and different from that in existence pre-corona. The set of financial regulation policies appropriate to this situation requires placing an instrument at the center of the design of financial regulatory policy that effectively internalizes the inter-dependencies in the actions of the financial system.