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Feature Story: GGKP and TERI release journal focused on green fiscal reform |
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in collaboration with the GGKP, has released a special issue of ‘The International Journal on Green Growth and Development’, to stir debate around emerging green concepts and development. The papers reflected in this issue, which focuses on the theme of green fiscal reform, are based on working papers produced for the Third GGKP Annual Conference on “Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact”, held in Venice, Italy, 29-30 January 2015. Topics covered include environmental taxation in transport, conceptual frameworks for measuring the effectiveness of green fiscal reform, fiscal policy instruments to accelerate innovation in renewable energy, obstacles to green fiscal reform, and fiscal consideration in the design of green tax reform. |
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The Impacts of Carbon Pricing on OECD and G20 Economies The OECD has released the report, ‘Effective Carbon Rates: |
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Investigating the Green Energy Economy – Special Open Access Issue of Applied Energy
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Perception vs Reality: Countries Ranked on Green Economy Performance Dual Citizen has released the 5th edition of the, ‘Global Green Economy Index’ (GGEI). The GGEI is a data-driven analysis of how 80 countries and 50 cities perform in the global green economy, as well as how expert practitioners rank this performance. This new GGEI offers an integrated performance assessment of climate change, the environment, efficiency sectors and investment to better understand where nations stand today and what they can improve on or leverage to do better in the future. |
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Taking Our Bearings of Green Economy Progress The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) has released the paper, ‘The Green Economy Barometer 2016’. Since 2010 the GEC has been tracking the transition to green economies by drawing on the experiences and insights of GEC members and gathering different perspectives from different regions. The report aims to provide a brief but broad picture of what has been happening recently and where. It is focused on the five principles of change that define the GEC’s understanding of a green economy: 1. economics for nature; 2. green must be fair; 3. transforming economic sectors; 4. moving the money; and 5. measuring what matters. |
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Advancing Successful Green Growth Partnerships
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The OECD Will Highlight Urban Green Growth at the GGSD Forum The 2016 Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum will take place from 9-10 November and focus on, ‘Urban Green Growth, Spatial Planning and Land Use’. The Forum will encompass an evaluation of the environmental and economic outcomes of different land use and spatial planning policies, as well as an exploration of how innovative approaches to land-use regulation and environmental policy instruments could complement and impact on traditional land-use planning and current approaches to green growth at the city level. |
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Find out what happened at the Fourth GGKP Annual Conference
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