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April 2020

Greening Fiscal Stimulus and Finance Packages to Achieve the SDGs

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This short 3-page report provides major facts related to COVID-19 and UNEP's responses.
May 2020

A Case for Renewable Energy in South Africa’s Post-lockdown Economic Recovery Stimulus Package

Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
This policy brief outlines key advantages for South Africa to invest in renewable energy as a post-COVID-19 stimulus package.
June 2020

A Case for Water and Sanitation in South Africa's Post-Lockdown Economic Recovery Stimulus Package

Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS)
This report explores the benefits of including water and sanitation in South Africa’s stimulus package and considers possible avenues to do so.
6 July 2020
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UN PAGE India Webinar - Building Back Better: Greening the Economic Recovery Package of the Government of India

Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)
On 6 July 2020, 12.30 TO 14.30 (CET), UN PAGE India, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), and Development Alternatives (DA) as the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) India Hub are hosting a webinar on 'Building Back Better'.
May 2020

Greening Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery in India

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
This paper aims to facilitate discussion on the topic of greening post COVID-19 economic recovery so that recovery measures are more aligned with sustainable development.
November 2019

The Role of Packaging Regulations and Standards in Driving the Circular Economy

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report aims to review the packaging policy interventions to address the challenge of plastics leaking into the environment, with a particular focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
October 2020

Green budgeting and tax policy tools to support a green recovery

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This policy brief focuses on practical ways in which countries can use green budgeting and tax policy tools to implement stimulus packages that support a green recovery, and the inter-linked role of both tax and spend measures in aligning stimulus programmes with decarbonisation objectives.
January 2015

Rethinking the green recovery through renewable energy expansion

International Journal of Sustainable Development (Inderscience Publishers)

The world today is facing the worst economic and environmental crises in generations. Hence, we need policies that can stimulate recovery and at the same time reach the sustainability.

February 2021

Sustainable Cooling in Support of a Resilient and Climate-Proof Recovery

Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), Cool Coalition
This brief presents how – in multiple critical economic sectors or systems (buildings, appliances, urban environments, cold chains, and R&D) – national governments can reorient public policy and include cooling in their recovery packages. This would support efforts to halt the pandemic, spur economic recovery, create and protect jobs for vulnerable populations, help strengthen resilience, and accelerate the transition to efficient, climate‐friendly cooling technologies and solutions.
April 2020

Investing in Climate Can Help France Drive its Economic Recovery

I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics
This paper calls for a public finance package, along with additional public and private investment, to contribute to France's post-COVID-19 recovery in a way that does not jeopardise France's commitments to international climate goals.

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