While environmental taxes aim at making environmentally harmful behaviour more costly, the opposite is true for environmentally beneficial tax incentives. Tax incentives imply foregone public revenues to favour less polluting consumption and investment activities in order to achieve environmental policy goals. While ... More ...
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The Global Risks Report 2021
In partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance Group The 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report analyses the risks from societal fractures—manifested through persistent and emerging risks to human health, rising unemployment, widening digital divides, youth ... More ...
Green European Journal, Volume 20: „Life Under Shock: Understanding the Pandemic“
Recognising that a pathogen will not bring forth a fairer, more sustainable future but people, ideas and politics can, this edition asks how the health crisis will influence our world in the years to come. As both an accelerator of existing trends and a moment of rupture, the health crisis and its tragic consequences ... More ...
“A System Change Compass: Implementing the European Green Deal in a time of recovery”
“A System Change Compass: Implementing the European Green Deal in a time of recovery”, co-written by The Club of Rome and SYSTEMIQ, with a foreword by President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen, sets out the guiding principles and systemic orientations to help address barriers to a rapid and successful rollout of ... More ...
A Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition
This roadmap for Europe's socio-ecological turnaround is a roadmap for a comprehensive transformation of the European economic system. "The Green New Deal for Europe" is an international campaign for a fast, fair and democratic transition to a sustainable Europe. Founded in April 2019 by the "Democracy in Europe ... More ...
A World Alive: Green Politics in Europe and Beyond
This edition explores the different worlds of green politics today. From concepts such as ecofeminism and the Green New Deal to questions of narrative and institutional change, it maps the forces, strategies, and ideas that will power political ecology, across Europe as around the world. As much as a way of ... More ...
Capital and Ideology
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about ... More ...
World Energy Issues Monitor 2020
The annual World Energy Issues Monitor provides unique insight into what energy policymakers, CEOs and leading experts identify as Critical Uncertainties and Action Priorities. New this year, the Issues Monitor also provides readers with the views of the individual customer, detailing their perceptions of their role in ... More ...
Recommended reading: Managing without Growth
Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet. This book explains why long-term economic growth is infeasible, and why, especially in advanced economies, it is also undesirable. ... More ...
Global energy transformation: A roadmap to 2050 (2019 edition)
Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050. This study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) highlights immediately deployable, cost-effective options for countries to fulfil climate commitments and ... More ...
Global Resources Outlook 2019
Much is at stake as global society approaches the final decade before the Sustainable Development Goals are fixed to be realized in 2030. The international community has set high ambitions for global prosperity, the protection of our biological diversity and land resources, and limiting global warming. Progress towards ... More ...
Global Environment Outlook 6
Published in time for the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment ... More ...
