Staff Discussion Notes

After Paris: Fiscal, Macroeconomic and Financial Implications of Global Climate Change

By Mai Farid, Michael Keen, Michael G. Papaioannou, Ian W.H. Parry, Catherine A Pattillo, Anna Ter-Martirosyan

January 11, 2016

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Mai Farid, Michael Keen, Michael G. Papaioannou, Ian W.H. Parry, Catherine A Pattillo, and Anna Ter-Martirosyan. After Paris: Fiscal, Macroeconomic and Financial Implications of Global Climate Change, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper discusses the implications of climate change for fiscal, financial, and macroeconomic policies. Most pressing is the use of carbon taxes (or equivalent trading systems) to implement the emissions mitigation pledges submitted by 186 countries for the December 2015 Paris Agreement while providing revenue for lowering other taxes or debt. Carbon pricing in developing countries would effectively mobilize climate finance, and carbon price floor arrangements are a promising way to coordinate policies internationally. Targeted fiscal measures that are tailored to national circumstances and robust across climate scenarios are needed to counter private sector under-investment in climate adaptation. And increased disclosure of carbon footprints, stress testing of asset values, and greater proliferation of hedging instruments, will facilitate low-emission investments and climate risk diversification through financial markets.

Subject: Carbon tax, Climate change, Climate finance, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, Natural disasters, Taxes

Keywords: Access country, Adaptation, Asset-management firm, Bond market, Carbon pricing, Carbon tax, Climate change, Climate finance, Climate mitigation, Countries price carbon, Economic growth, Emissions price, Exchange rate, Financial markets, Fiscal policy, Global, Greenhouse gas emissions, Long-term debt, Natural disasters, Price level, Pricing carbon, Private sector, Public expenditure, SDN, South Asia

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    46

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    Staff Discussion Notes No. 2016/001

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    SDNEA2016001

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    9781513506562

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    2617-6750

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