ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP
Government taxes, charges and subsidies create powerful incentives for producers, consumers and investors, and how these fiscal instruments are employed paves the way for green growth. The Fiscal Instruments Working Group, which was run from 2013-2016, examined the challenges and opportunities associated with reforming environmentally perverse fiscal measures and provided policy guidance on the effective design and implementation of fiscal instruments for the green economy transition. In particular, the working group was tasked with developing background research papers tabled and discussed at the Third GGKP Annual Conference, held in January 2015.
Working Group Members & Coordinators
Climate Change Expert
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Director
Association for Environmental and Community Development (ACED)
Senior Fellow
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Senior Fellow
Asia Research Center at the London School of Economics (LSE)
Head of Green Finance
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Founder & Director
Council on Economic Policies (CEP)
Economic Affairs Officer
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Head of Unit
Senior Research Fellow
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)
Chief of Section
Organization of American States (OAS)
Deputy CEO
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Associate Fellow,
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Director
Green Technology Center-Korea (GTC-K)
Research Officer & Economist
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Senior Economist
Global Commission on the Economy and Climate
Co-President
Club of Rome
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
This working group published six working papers around the theme of fiscal policy and the green economy transition. Initial drafts of these papers were presented at the GGKP's Third Annual Conference in January 2015.
RESOURCES
The working papers, available in the GGKP Resource Library, include:
- Overcoming obstacles to green fiscal reform, Sirini Withana (2015)
- Environmental Taxation in Transport, Gunnar Eskeland, Haakon Lindstad (2015)
- Fiscal considerations in the design of green tax reforms, Kai Schlegelmilch, Amani Joas (2015)
- Role of Fiscal Instruments in Promoting Low-carbon Technology Innovation, Rita Pandey, Meeta Keswani Mehra (2015)
- Fiscal instruments and water security, Mike Young (2015)
- A Conceptual Framework for Measuring the Effectiveness of Green Fiscal Reforms, Gilbert Metcalf (2015)
A full list of resources on fiscal instruments can be accessed through the GGKP's Fiscal Instruments theme page or through the GGKP's resource library.