GGKP Knowledge Update, Issue 2016-1

The newest issue of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform's Knowledge Update has just been published and can be accessed online here.

In this issue you can read about:

• The GGKP newly launched Green Growth and Law Research Committee and the Inclusiveness Research Committee.
• The OECD report, 'The Economic Consequences of Climate Change' exploring a new detailed quantitative assessment of the consequences of climate change on economic growth through 2060 and beyond. 
• The GGBP report's executive summary, available in Chinese and the full report in Mongolian.
• The report, 'Bridging Costa Rica's Green Growth Gap: How to Support Further Transformation toward a Green Economy', from GIZ, CDKN and ODI.
• The briefing paper, 'Fiscal Policy Reforms for Climate Change', from UNEP, GIZ and IMF.
• The paper 'Why Finance Ministers Favor Carbon Taxes, Even If They Do Not Take Climate Change into Account', in the Journal Environmental and Resource Economics.
• The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Global Green Growth Institute's policy brief, 'Carbon Pricing: How Best to Use the Revenue?'. 
• The International Resource Panel and UNEP's summary for policy makers of the paper, 'Green Energy Choices: The Benefits, Risks and Trade-Offs of Low-Carbon Technologies for Electricity Production'. 

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