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register to the next webinar on taxing energy use 2019

When: Tuesday 15 October - 16:00 (CEST Paris time) / 10:00 (EDT)

Global energy consumption rose strongly in 2018 along with energy-related CO₂ emissions, reaching a new all-time high. This is disconcerting, as meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement will require deep cuts in emissions.

Taxing polluting sources of energy is an effective way to curb emissions that harm the planet and human health. Where do countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes to reach environmental and climate goals? How can governments step up efforts?

Join Jonas Teusch from the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration to discuss the key findings from the OECD publication, Taxing Energy Use 2019, which presents new and original data on energy and carbon taxes in OECD and G20 countries, and in international aviation and maritime transport.

Duration: 1 hour (presentation of 20-30 minutes followed by Q&A).

Where: the convenience of your computer

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MISSED THE RECENT webinar: Making Blended Finance Work for Water and Sanitation

On Monday 9 September, our team of experts discussed the key findings of this report during a live webinar.

Where has blended finance worked so far? How can this experience be adapted to new contexts and investment types? How can well-designed policies strengthen the enabling environment to crowd-in commercial capital and strengthen the financing systems upon which water-related investments rely?

Water-related investments are a prerequisite to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, yet financing persistently falls well short of investment needs. This OECD report Making Blended Finance Work for Water and Sanitation: Unlocking Commercial Finance for SDG 6 shows how blended finance can play an important role to deploy development finance more strategically to mobilise additional commercial finance.shows how blended finance can play an important role to deploy development finance more strategically to mobilise additional commercial finance.

This report takes a commercial investment perspective on water-related investment and provides insights into three subsectors: (1) water and sanitation utilities; (2) small-scale off-grid sanitation and (3) multi-purpose water infrastructure and landscape-based approaches.

Watch the video recording

MISSED OUR previous WEBINARS? WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDINGS

• The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Enhancing measurability to track progress at global and national level
• Responding to Rising Seas
• Materials Use to 2060: Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences
• Rethinking Plastic Recycling in a Disposable Society
• Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure
• Carbon Pricing trends: Measuring the momentum
• Rethinking Urban Sprawl: Moving Towards Sustainable Cities
• Financing Water: Investing in Sustainable Growth
• Leveraging the Smart Grid to Optimise Energy Consumption
• Taxing Energy Use: Reforming energy tax systems to achieve environmental goals
• Groundwater Allocation: Growing Pressures on Quantity & Quality
• Water Risk Hotspots for Agriculture
• Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth
• Tackling environmental problems with behavioural insights
• Green finance and investment: Using policy levers to accelerate green capital flows
• Degraded Waters: Emerging policy solutions to tackle diffuse pollution
• 3D Printing - What the next production revolution means for the environment
• Moving Towards Mainstreaming Biodiversity
• Mind the gap: Measuring the carbon pricing shortfall
• Shipping after #COP21, will we miss the boat?
• Going for a resource efficient economy
• Thinking about global warming, Per Espen Stoknes

 

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