Climate Change

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WORKING PAPERS
Why Do Governments Tax or Subsidize Fossil Fuels?
Paasha Mahdavi et al.
August 18, 2020
Governments have long faced pressure to address the climate crisis by increasing taxes on fossil fuels, which are the source of more than three-quarters of the world’s anthropogenic carbon pollution.
Blog Post
Resilience in Developing Nations
Nancy Birdsall et al.
June 08, 2020
There are two ways to look at progress in the developing world context. I think the right way to look at it is that there has been tremendous success. The downside is that, as we see with the threat of COVID as well as the risk of more natural disasters because of climate change, that they and the e...
Blog Post
How Do Development Agencies Support Climate Action?
Rachael Calleja
April 28, 2020
This blog undertakes an initial analysis to map the ways that development agencies are integrating climate objectives into their development programs.
CGD NOTES
Projecting Global Emissions for Lower-Income Countries
Arthur Baker
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Ian Mitchell
April 22, 2020
This note updates and builds on analysis from 2014 by Stefan Dercon, which projects carbon dioxide emissions by the poorest countries to understand their likely future contribution to global emissions. Whilst these countries’ emissions are currently very low, there is concern that rapid economic gro...
Blog Post
What Should We Ask from the IMF on Climate Change?
Mark Plant
April 03, 2020
While the world’s decision makers are now rightly focusing on the COVID-19 crisis and its potentially devastating economic aftermath, the climate change agenda has been moved from the center stage. As the world begins to rethink what the post COVID-19 economic order will look like, climate change wi...
CGD NOTES
Confronting the Macroeconomic Challenges of Climate Change: The Road Ahead for the IMF
Mark Plant
April 03, 2020
Adapted from a seminar with the IMF and climate experts that CGD co-sponsored with the European Climate Foundation, this note looks at the role that the IMF can take to help tackle climate change.
Blog Post
The UK’s Integrated Review: A Most Timely and Promising Initiative
Inge Kaul
March 31, 2020
Last month, the UK government announced its commitment to “hold the largest review of the UK’s foreign, defence, security and development policy since the end of the Cold War,” with the review adopting an integrated, whole-of-government perspective.