TY - BOOK ID - 84656762 TI - Climate Policy and the Recovery AU - Keen, Michael. AU - Jones, Benjamin PY - 2009 SN - 1462369340 1452772525 1455220949 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Public Finance KW - Taxation KW - Environmental Economics KW - Environmental Conservation and Protection KW - Environmental Policy KW - Energy and the Macroeconomy KW - Environmental Economics: General KW - Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities KW - Redistributive Effects KW - Environmental Taxes and Subsidies KW - Fiscal Policy KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Climate KW - Natural Disasters and Their Management KW - Global Warming KW - Environmental Economics: Government Policy KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Environmental economics KW - Climate change KW - Environmental policy & protocols KW - Carbon tax KW - Emissions trading KW - Expenditure KW - Greenhouse gas emissions KW - Climate policy KW - Taxes KW - Environment KW - Environmental impact charges KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Greenhouse gases KW - Environmental policy KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84656762 AB - Negotiations toward a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change have come to a critical point, and domestic climate policies are being developed, as the world seeks to recover from the deepest economic crisis for decades and looks for new sources of sustainable growth. This position paper considers the challenge posed by these two policy imperatives: how to exit from the crisis while developing an effective response to climate change. Blending the objectives of a sustained recovery and effective climate policies presents both challenges and opportunities. Although there are potential “win-win” spending measures conducive to both, the more fundamental linkages and synergies lie in the broader strategies adopted toward each other. Greater climate resilience can promote macroeconomic stability and alleviate poverty; and carbon pricing, essential for mitigation, can contribute to the strengthening of fiscal positions that is expected to be needed in many countries. There are, nevertheless, also difficult trade-offs to face, notably in the somewhat greater caution now warranted in moving to more aggressive emissions pricing. However, the simple policy guidelines for addressing climate issues remain fundamentally unchanged; the need to deploy a range of regulatory, spending, and emissions pricing measures. ER -