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November 2015

A Conceptual Framework for Measuring the Effectiveness of Green Fiscal Reforms

Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
This GGKP working paper provides a conceptual framework for assessing the effectiveness (strengths and weaknesses) of a green fiscal reform.
December 2015

Green Economy Fiscal Policy Analysis: Ghana

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
The current study Green Economy Fiscal Policy Analysis: Ghana focuses on the revenue component of Ghana’s government budget, selecting the options with the most potential to improve environmental quality and to create the preconditions for green economy investment.
September 2015

OECD Companion to the Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2015

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

This publication is concerned with all policies that directly support the production or consumption of fossil fuels in OECD countries and in a selection of partner economies.

May 2018

Toward more inclusive measures of economic well-being: Debates and practices

International Labour Organization (ILO)
This paper reviews debates and practice around the conventional and alternative measures of economic well-being. Evaluating the major contending measures – the Genuine Progress Indicator, Human Development Index, Happiness/life evaluation index, Happy Planet Index, the OECD’s Better Life Initiative dashboard – the paper argues that the GPI is the only indicator that incorporates care for human beings and care for the environment in a single framework and is therefore best suited to guide policy in responding to the major challenges of our time – rising inequality, climate change, environmental destruction.
March 2019

Designing Accreditation and Verification Systems: A Guide to ensuring credibility for carbon pricing instruments

World Bank Group
This guidebook, Designing Accreditation and Verification Systems: A Guide to ensuring credibility for carbon pricing instruments, aims to help regulators to better understand their options in designing a carbon pricing verification system tailored to their specific needs and circumstances.
July 2014

Monitoring the German Feed-in Tariff Program

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP)

Germany’s feed-in tariff program has been at the heart of its renewable energy policy. Ongoing monitoring and public data and analysis have been crucial for setting the rates for the scheme, and for supporting public debate on the costs and benefits.

February 2018

Taxing Energy Use 2018: Companion to the Taxing Energy Use Database

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The report Taxing Energy Use 2018: Companion to the Taxing Energy Use Database assesses the magnitude and coverage of taxes on energy use in 2015, across different countries and selected country groups, six sectors and five main fuel groups.

OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This brochure highlights the value and usability of the OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels, an online inventory, which systematically identifies, documents, and estimates the value of support arising from more than 1,000 individual policies that encourage the production or consumption of fossil fuels in order to assist governments in reforming their fossil-fuel subsidy policies.
June 2010

Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This study focuses on the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments and tradable permit schemes to address agri-environmental issues.
16 July 2018
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Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

Joy Aeree Kim
"The reporting under the SDG12c indicator will be the first attempt to systemically monitor fossil fuel subsidies to both consumption and production sides, based on national data of 193 UN member countries and collected by an internationally agreed methodology," says Joy Kim, Climate Change Expert at UN Environment.

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