Green fiscal reform for a just energy transition in latin America

Michael Jakob; Rafael Soria; Carlos Trinidad; Ottmar Edenhofer; Celine Bak; Daniel Bouille; Daniel Buira; Hernan Carlino; Veronica Gutman; Christian Hübner; Brigitte Knopf; André Lucena; Luan Santos; Andrew Scott; Jan Christoph Steckel; Kanako Tanaka; Adrien Vogt-Schilb; Koichi Yamada

doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-17

Green fiscal reform for a just energy transition in latin America

Michael Jakob
, Rafael Soria^*
, Carlos Trinidad
, Ottmar Edenhofer
, Celine Bak
, Daniel Bouille
, Daniel Buira
, Hernan Carlino
, Veronica Gutman
, Christian Hübner
, Brigitte Knopf
, André Lucena
, Luan Santos
, Andrew Scott
, Jan Christoph Steckel
, Kanako Tanaka
, Adrien Vogt-Schilb
, Koichi Yamada

^*Corresponding author for this work

Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
Escuela Politecnica Nacional
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental
Fundacion Bariloche
Tempus Analítica A.C.
Fundación Torcuato Di Tella (FTDT)
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Museu Nacional/UFRJ
Overseas Development Institute
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Inter-American Development Bank

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Abstract

Green fiscal reforms would contribute to climate change mitigation, increase the economic efficiency of national tax systems and provide additional public revenues. Some countries in Latin America have already taken first steps towards green fiscal reforms. This outlook article provides an overview of the major challenges for the successful implementation of such reforms and discusses how they could be overcome.

Original language	English
Article number	2019-17
Journal	Economics
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-17
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Distribution
Energy subsidies
Green fiscal reform
Latin america
Multi-objective climate policy
Sequencing

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Jakob, M., Soria, R., Trinidad, C., Edenhofer, O., Bak, C., Bouille, D., Buira, D., Carlino, H., Gutman, V., Hübner, C., Knopf, B., Lucena, A., Santos, L., Scott, A., Steckel, J. C., Tanaka, K., Vogt-Schilb, A., & Yamada, K. (2019). Green fiscal reform for a just energy transition in latin America. Economics, 13, Article 2019-17. https://doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-17

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