The National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) is Ghana’s integrated response to climate change.
The role of fiscal instruments in supporting action on climate change is increasingly recognized.
Actions to stimulate low-carbon innovation – a global policy priority – are moving full speed ahead.
This report reviews trends and progress on climate change mitigation policies in 34 OECD countries and 10 partner economies (Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, India, Latvia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and South Africa), as well as in the European Union.
The interlinked challenges of climate change and food security are most evident in the agriculture sector, which (combined with land-use change) produces about a quarter of global greenhouse emissions.
This paper assesses some welfare consequences of climate change mitigation policies.
The Earth’s climate is changing already and failure to limit warming to below 2°C could make the changes in the climate system irreversible and characterized by cataclysmic consequences.