The GGKP has released a new video series, interviewing government officials, green growth researchers, experts and key thinkers, focusing on the importance of fiscal policy in the green economy transition. The series includes 13 short video interviews, captured during the GGKP's Third Annual Conference which focused on the topic of "Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact". Experts interviewed include members of the GGKP's Steering Committee and Advisory Committee. In addition, the interview series features brief explanations on the recent research produced through the GGKP's Fiscal Instruments Research Committee, from the perspective of the academics commissioned to carry out the work.
Below is a sampling of quotes collected from the video interview series. The complete interview series, as well as other GGKP videos, can be accessed on the GGKP YouTube Channel.
"Fiscal policy is an absolute driver for or against sustainability, that's why it so important to align our economies to produce sustainability and be truly green." Steven Stone
"We need further research in understanding how do we overcome long-term goals versus short-term goals, generally we implement fiscal instruments that have short-term impacts but we need to know what are we compromising with long-term goals such as reducing the impacts of climate change" Edward B. Barbier
"A gap I see in research is the understanding of distributional impacts of fiscal instruments ... and how effective are these policies in ensuring that even when a governments good intentions to spur development exist, are the benefits accrued to the bottom-line consumers, the poorest of the poor?" Alice Kaudia