2021 Comprehensive Surveillance Review— Background Paper on Integrating Climate Change into Article IV Consultations

May 18, 2021

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2021 Comprehensive Surveillance Review— Background Paper on Integrating Climate Change into Article IV Consultations, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

While the IMF has been involved in the climate debate since at least 2008, a systematic account of how to integrate climate change into surveillance has been lacking to date. This paper seeks to fill the gap. It argues that domestic policy challenges related to climate change—such as adaptation efforts for climate vulnerable countries, or policies to deliver a country’s Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris climate accord—are covered by the IMF’s bilateral surveillance mandate and therefore valid topics for Article IV consultations wherever these challenges cross the threshold of macro-criticality. Climate change mitigation is a global policy challenge and therefore falls under multilateral surveillance. The paper proposes a pragmatic approach that focusses especially on the mitigation efforts of the 20 largest emitters of greenhouse gases.

Subject: Carbon tax, Climate change, Climate policy, Environment, Greenhouse gas emissions, Monetary policy, Natural disasters, Political economy, Taxes

Keywords: Carbon tax, Climate change, Climate change mitigation, Climate policy, Global, Greenhouse gas emissions, IMF's mitigation policy advice, Natural disasters, Policy challenge, Surveillance mandate, Transparency policy

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

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Series:

Policy Paper No. 2021/032
Stock No:

PPEA2021032
ISBN:

9781513582689
ISSN:

2663-3493

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