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May 2020

Explained: Economic incentives to reduce waste

European Environmental Bureau
This brief provides an overview of existing economic instruments and other measures that can be used to help governments reduce waste and incentivise reuse and recycling in line with the waste hierarchy.

Uzbekistan - Enhance Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection

Country: 
Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan commits to reform the existing laws that regulate methods of the use of natural resources. The development and adoption process of the government decision is scheduled in 2018.

October 2012

Using Economic Incentives to Encourage Conservation in Bioregions in South Africa

Journal of Sustainable Development (Canadian Center of Science and Education)

Many protected areas are not successfully conserving biodiversity, often despite adequate management within their borders.

Guyana Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation

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McKinsey & Company
Country: 
Guyana
National development is of utter importance for countries like Guyana where social and economic needs take precedence over anything else. To reconcile the world's need for forests to kept be intact then Guyana should make deforestation a complementary objective to enhance national development. The paper Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation is focussed on how the UNFCCC process can create the incentives to make this complementarity possible.
October 2015

Creating Incentives for Greener Products: A Policy Manual for Eastern Partnership Countries

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Promoting green growth requires well-designed institutions and environmental policy instruments that are effective in achieving their environmental objectives without imposing excessive burdens on the economy.

October 2020

Financial Incentives for a Biodiversity-Friendly Future - is Green Recovery a Catalyzer?

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Expert practitioners and decision-makers from the government, NGOs, indigenous peoples and the private sector from different continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America) joined a discussion on existing approaches and financial incentive measures for biodiversity mainstreaming. The report summarises the contributions as well as the most important conclusions and is of interest to anyone who would like to keep up to date on how financial incentives can ensure greater consideration of biodiversity in business.
March 2014

Creating Market Incentives for Greener Products: Policy Manual for Eastern Partnership Countries

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) GREEN

This policy manuel aims to help the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries  – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – design or reform economic instruments related to environmentally harmful products.

September 2009

Environmentally harmful subsidies - How perverse financial incentives threaten biodiversity

Green Budget Germany (GBG)

This Green Budget Germany (GBG) study commissioned by the Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR) is an analysis of the comprehensive literature available on environmentally harmful subsidies and financial incentives.

February 2018

Species in the Balance: Partnering on Tools and Incentives to Recover Species at Risk

Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI), University of Ottawa
The report Species in the Balance: Partnering on Tools and Incentives to Recover Species at Risk diagnoses a number of problems facing species at risk recovery work in Canada, including inadequate financial resources, insufficient incentives for stewardship among private landowners and industry, and patchy efforts to protect species at risk (SAR) on provincial and territorial crown land and private land.
April 2020

Tracking Economic Instruments and Finance for Biodiversity

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD Environmental Policy Committee (EPOC), through its unique database of Policy Instruments for the Environment (PINE), collects quantitative and qualitative information on policy instruments, in more than 80 countries worldwide. This resource presents statistics on the biodiversity-relevant economic instruments and the finance they mobilise, based on currently available data in PINE.

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