Fiscal Policies For Paris Climate Strategies From Principle To Practice

This paper discusses the role of, and provides practical country-level guidance on, fiscal policies for implementing climate strategies using a unique and transparent tool laying out trade-offs among policy options.

This paper discusses the role of, and provides practical country-level guidance on, fiscal policies for implementing climate strategies using a unique and transparent tool laying out trade-offs among policy options.

"Beyond the Ledger: Enhancing Global Sustainability through Data-Driven Accounting Frameworks" by FAROOQ AZIZ is set to revolutionize the world of sustainable growth and decision-making. With a wealth of experience as a data analytics solution architect, FAROOQ AZIZ has penned a comprehensive guide that explores the potential of utilizing data analytics within an accounting framework to resolve global issues and address business challenges. The book is divided into five main sections that cover a wide range of topics related to global issues and accounting techniques. It begins by introducing readers to global issues and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. From there, it delves into the impact and challenges of global issues and the importance of accounting framework and data analytics in solving them. The book also provides an overview of accounting framework and data analytics, discussing its role in decision-making and benefits in various sectors such as healthcare, retail, and financial services. The enhancement of accounting framework with data analytics techniques is also explored in detail, along with case studies demonstrating its effectiveness in different industries. Finally, the book discusses solutions for global issues with enhanced accounting framework, including reducing carbon emissions, promoting social equality, and managing natural resources. The potential impact of data analytics on decision-making in addressing global issues is also analyzed, and the book provides case studies demonstrating the use of enhanced accounting framework in solving global issues. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in sustainable growth and decision-making. It provides a comprehensive and detailed guide to enhancing accounting framework with data analytics techniques, with real-world examples and case studies. It is ideal for professionals in the accounting and finance industry, policymakers, and academics in the field of sustainability and global issues. FAROOQ AZIZ's expertise in the industry makes this book an innovative and groundbreaking guide to solving global issues through the lens of accounting and data analytics.

Belgium’s current policies fall short of achieving its climate targets and promoting emissions reductions at limited economic costs. We recommend that domestic carbon pricing form the centerpiece of an emissions reduction package, as pricing promotes mitigation at the lowest economic cost, can be phased in as international energy prices fall, and generates revenue to compensate vulnerable households and reduce taxes on productive activities. Sectoral policies, such as subsidy-tax schemes to promote low emissions vehicles, should reinforce carbon pricing and regional efforts, while the social protection system can be made more efficient and environmentally friendly by switching from energy subsidies to income-based support. Belgium should also promote dialogue at the EU-level to harmonize ETS prices and include all sectors under a single trading scheme.

This paper discusses and analyzes various international mechanisms to scale up global action on climate mitigation and address the policy gap in this area. Despite the new commitments made at COP 26, there is still an ambition and a policy gap at the global level to keep temperature increases below the 2°C agreed in Paris. Avoiding the worst outcomes of climate change requires an urgent scaling up of climate policies. Recent policy proposals include the idea of common minimum carbon prices, which underlie the IMF’s international carbon price proposal (Parry, Black, and Roaf 2021) and the climate club proposal of the German government. While global carbon prices are not a new idea, the new elements are the use of carbon price floors—which allow countries to do more if they wish—and the differentiation of carbon price floors by level of development. In the absence of international coordination, countries with ambitious climate policies are considering introducing a border carbon adjustment mechanism to prevent domestic producers from being at a competitive disadvantage due to more ambitious domestic climate policies. An interesting question from the global perspective is whether border carbon adjustment would deliver substantial additional emissions reductions or incentivize other countries to join a carbon price floor agreement.

Taxing Energy Use (TEU) 2019 presents a snapshot of where countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes, tracks progress made, and makes actionable recommendations on how governments could do better. The report contains new and original data on energy and carbon taxes in OECD and G20 countries, and in international aviation and maritime transport.

Summarizing the current state of knowledge on the links between business and climate change, this timely Handbook analyzes how businesses contribute to and are affected by climate change, looking closely at their centrality in developing and deploying solutions to address this problem. Contributions from a global collection of scholars and practitioners explore a broad range of key industries’ impacts and responses to climate change, examining corporate strategy and leadership in the climate economy, functional perspectives and corporate practice, and climate finance.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Mitigation requires a largescale transition to a low-carbon economy. This paper provides an overview of the rapidly growing literature on the role of macroeconomic and financial policy tools in enabling this transition. The literature provides a menu of policy tools for mitigation. A key conclusion is that fiscal tools are first in line and central, but can and may need to be complemented by financial and monetary policy instruments. Some tools and policies raise unanswered questions about policy tool assignment and mandates, which we describe. The literature is scarce, however, on the most effective policy mix and the role of mitigation tools and goals in the overall policy framework.