Climate policy

Incentivising low-carbon and circular development is about incentivising what you want more off, and taxing what you want to see less. Putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging their mitigation is one way to gradually move towards higher taxes on resource extraction and use, and lower taxes on labour.

Policy session in Bonn: The circular economy pathway for pursuing 1.5°C Circular economy strategies offer promise to address the current greenhouse gas emissions... read more
The Guardian: 5 Ways the circular economy can help to mitigate climate change The 2015 Paris Agreement united 195 countries behind a commitment to limit... read more
Circular economy: A key lever in bridging the emissions gap to a 1.5 °C pathway Circle Economy, Ecofys and Shifting Paradigms have called for a rapid transition... read more
Shaping international cooperation on climate action (article 6 of the Paris Agreement) The context for the operation of carbon markets and the specification of... read more
International cooperation under the Paris Agreement The Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) has worked in the area of international... read more
Assisting Morocco with integrating circular economy strategies in their climate policies The Government of Morocco is using circular economy strategies to reduce its... read more
Co-designing climate policies in the Ugandan agricultural sector The combination of good soils and a favourable climate define the high... read more
Co-developing a monitoring approach for the Ugandan transport sector Uganda has an ambitious programme to improve the fuel efficiency of its... read more
Advancing climate policy development with Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania and DRC In a broader consortium Shifting Paradigms provided trainings on impact measurement and... read more
Climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies Globally, countries spent USD 523 billion on fossil fuel consumption subsidies in... read more
Exploring opportunities to expand the World Bank Pilot Auction Facility The Pilot Auction facility (PAF) is an innovative model that seeks to... read more
Integrated approach to mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Central Asia Uzbekistan inherited an inefficient district heating system and poorly insulated building stock... read more
Trainings on carbon accounting under the Nairobi Framework The Nairobi Framework is a cooperation between international organisations to build capacity in... read more
Will Kazakhstan be the next country to establish a carbon emissions trading scheme? Kazakhstan is among the few countries without access to international compliance carbon... read more
Climate policies for the Peruvian waste sector and Vietnamese cement industry The cement sector is responsible for about 5% of global CO2 emissions... read more
Design support to emissions trading in Kazakhstan The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MoEP) is... read more
Design options for sectoral market mechanisms and their implications for the EU ETS The European Commission initiated an in-depth study to identify, assess and elaborate... read more
Towards an energizing partnership – China’s role as catalyst of renewable energy development in Africa On 8 November 2009, at the fourth Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)... read more