Mobilizing Climate Finance. A Paper prepared at the request of G20 Finance Ministers.

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Workshop on Catalysing Investment in Low-Carbon and Climate-Resilient Growth, November 2011

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Launch of the OECD Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures Relating to Fossil Fuels

This Inventory provides reliable and comparable data on support or tax expenditures for fossil fuel production or use in OECD countries. Reforming fossil fuel subsidies can contribute to achieving economic and fiscal objectives, while also tackling environmental problems like climate change.

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Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.

Sources of Finance, Investment Policies and Plant Entry in the Renewable Energy Sector - Environment Working Paper No. 37

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Towards a green economy: How Spain's energy sector can help combat climate change

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Global Forum on Measuring, Reporting and Verification & Carbon Markets (March 2011)

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Financing Climate Change Action and Boosting Technology Change (policy brief)

The OECD is ready to assist countries in their efforts to find lasting solutions to finance action on climate change, building on the long-standing work of the organisation to share country experiences and identify lessons learnt and policy recommendations for good practice.