Provisional Agenda (16/1/2015) GGKP Annual Conference 2014

Provisional Agenda (16/1/2015) GGKP Annual Conference 2014-2015 “Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact” San Giobbe, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

29 January First day of conferen ce 2015 8: 00-9: 00 Registration 9:00 -9:30 Welcome address (Room: Aula Magna ) Chair : Carlo Carraro , Department of Economics, University of Venice Speakers : - Michele Bugliesi , Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Ligia Noronha , Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, United Nations Environment Programme - Leena Srivastava , Vice Chancellor, TERI University and Executive Director (Honorary), The Energy and Resources Institute 9:30 -11:00 High -level panel: Fisc al instruments for green growth – going beyond environmental taxation (Room: Aula Magna) This high-level panel discussion sets the scene and provides an overall context for the GGKP Annual Conference by triggering debate on some of the unexploited potential of existing tax systems and other structural policies to foster green growth.

Chair : Carlo Carraro , Department of Economics, University of Venice Panellists : - Robert Ford , Deputy Director, Country Studies Branch, Economics Department, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Alice Akinyi Kaudia , Environment Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya - Francesco La Camera , Director-General for Sustainable Development, Climate and Energy, Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italy - Edward B. Barbier , John S. Bugas Professor of Economics, University of Wyoming 11:00 -11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 -13:00 Parallel session A1: (Aula Magna ) Parallel session A2: (Room 9B) Parallel session A3: (Room 10 B) Designing effective green tax reforms Creating incentives for investment in clean Enabling sustainable water management This session focuses on how countries can energy through fiscal measures design effective green tax reforms to reduce This session highlights opportunities for This session explores how green growth tax burdens, address social concerns and increasing investment in renewable energy and policies in the water sector can address have a positive environmental impact, with energy efficiency, including the appropriate issues of both quantity and quality by case studies on environmental fiscal reform, choice and design of instruments to address encouraging water-related innovation and carbon taxes and recycling schemes. market barriers, strategic subsidies and investment in green infrastructure, with a household behaviour. specific focus on institutional entrepreneurship, water tariffs and Moderator : David O’Connor , Chief, Policy environmental surcharges. and Analysis Branch, Division of Sustainable Moderator : Nikolaus Schultze , Assistant Development, United Nations Department of Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute Economic and Social Affairs Moderator : Steven Stone , Chief, Economics and Trade Branch, United Nations Panellists : Environment Programme Panellists : - Rita Pandey , Meeta Keswani Mehra :

Kai Schlegelmilch , Amani Joas: Role of fiscal instruments in promoting low Panellists : Fiscal considerations in the design of green carbon technology innovation ; GGKP tax reforms ; GGKP commissioned paper commissioned paper -Pasquale L. Scandizzo , Ernesto Sanchez Triana: - Max Franks , Ottmar Edenhofer, Kai - Carolyn Fischer , Mads Greaker, Knut-Einar Lessmann: Rosendahl: Rent seeking and institutional entrepreneurship at Colombia's Cauca Valley Why finance ministers might favor carbon Strategic subsidies for renewable energy Corporation taxes, even if they do not take climate - Nadia Ameli , Nicola Brandt: - Derek Eaton : change into account Determinants of households’ investment in - Jules Schers , Franck Lecocq, Frédéric energy efficiency and renewables – evidence Paying for clean water and wastewater Ghersi: from the OECD survey on household treatment: an analysis of urban water charging and its contribution to green Green jobs potential in a skill-constrained environmental behaviour and attitudes growth economy: Analysis of different carbon tax - Nabil Haque , Sungida Rashid: recycling schemes for South Africa Environmental surcharge for heavy polluters

in Bangladesh - What are the options for regulated entities under this newly

introduced fee?

Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : - Jan Olsson , Environment Ambassador, - Alfonso Roggiero , Advisor to the Deputy - Mauricio Mira Pontón , Head of Office, Ministry of the Environment, Sweden Minister of Environment, Ecuador Green and Sustainable Business Office, - Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Policy Specialist, - Tilman Altenburg , Head of Department, Ministry of Environment, Colombia Green Jobs, International Labour Sustainable Economic and Social Development, - Bernard Brès , Technopark Director, Organization German Development Institute / Deutsches International Institute for Water and Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Environmental Engineering

13:00 -14: 30 Lunch 14:30 -16:00 Parallel session B1: (Room 9B) Parallel session B2: (Room 10B) Parallel session B3: (Room 10C) Parallel session B4: (Room 9C) Overcoming obstacles to green Fiscal policy reform for an Innovating clean technology for Promoting green fiscal reform inclusive green economy green growth transportation systems This session examines how to This session shows how effective This session explores how new This session highlights the overcome obstacles to green green policy reform can succeed technologies and the widespread potential for fiscal fiscal reform focusing on the where other economic models deployment of existing green instruments to reduce use of mitigation measures for have not and should be considered technologies can contribute to environmental impacts from vulnerable firms and low- an integral part of the drive sustainable development; specific the transport sector, income households, towards eradicating poverty; examples focus on optimal energy including congestion, air complementary measures for specific research focuses on carbon transition pathways and the impact pollution and waste; specific carbon taxes and political pricing, the distributional effects of of uncertainty on innovation. examples focus on taxes, implications. energy policy and fiscal policy in feebates and effective car Indonesia. scrapping schemes.

Moderator: Joe Grice , Executive Moderator : Kurt Lonsway, Moderator : Ernst Ulrich von Moderator : Raouf Dabbas , Senior Director & Chief Economist, Office Manager, Environment and Weizsäcker , Co-President, The Advisor, Ministry of Environment, for National Statistics, United Climate Change, African Club of Rome (GGKP Advisory Jordan (GGKP Advisory Committee Kingdom (GGKP Advisory Development Bank Committee Member) Member) Committee Member)

Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : - Sirini Withana : - Ambiyah Abdullah , Joni Jupesta: - Prudence Dato : - Gunnar Eskeland , Haakon Overcoming obstacles to green Assessing the impacts of fiscal Energy transition under Lindstad: fiscal reform; GGKP policies on green sectors on poverty irreversibility: a two-sector Using environmental taxes in commissioned paper reduction and job creation in approach the transport sector; GGKP Indonesia using green sectors- commissioned paper - Miguel Buñuel : - Elena Verdolini , Pierre Jockers, extended inter-regional social Implementing a carbon tax in Valentina Bosetti: - Theodoros Zachariadis , accounting matrix Spain: how to overcome the fear The impact of policy and Sofronis Clerides: of inflation? - David Klenert , Gregor uncertainty on innovation in the Feebates as a fiscal measure for Schwerhoff, Ottmar Edenhofer: wind industry: evidence from - Stefan Speck : green transportation The distributional incidence of European countries Environmental fiscal reform and - Giovanni Marin , Roberto carbon taxation: the double transition to a green economy - Zoboli: dividend of redistribution A political economy analysis The role of non-waste 'product - Harry Granqvist , David Grover: innovation' for waste Who should pay for clean energy? production through reduced Distributive justice perspectives lifetime of goods

Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : - Gallow Sow , Technical - Malgorzata Kicia , Socio- - Harald Lossack, Head of - Anthony Dzadzra , Head of Tax Advisor, Ministry of Economic Analyst, DG Competence Center, Biodiversity, Policy, Ministry of Finance, Ghana Environment and Sustainable Environment, European Forests, Natural Resources, - Eshita Gupta , Assistant Professor, Development, Senegal Commission Division Environment and Climate Department of Policy Studies, TERI - James Seong-Cheol Kang , -Nils-Axel Braathen , Principal Change, Deutsche Gesellschaft für University Principal Transport Specialist, Administrator, Environment Internationale Zusammenarbeit Knowledge Solutions Division, Directorate, Organisation for (GIZ) GmbH Global Green Growth Institute Economic Co-operation and - Joëlle Noailly , Research Development Associate, Program “Innovation, Sustainable Growth and Technological Change”, Graduate Institute 16:00 -16: 30 Coffee Break

16: 30 -18:00 Parall el session C1: (Room 9B) Parallel session C2: (Room 10B) Parallel session C3: (Room 10C ) Parallel session C4 : (Room 9C) Fiscal measures for climate Water pricing for sustainable Effectiveness of fiscal policy in Fiscal measures for biodiversity change action water management eliciting behavioural change protection and adaptation This session highlights a range This session explores the This session illustrates how This session examines how economic of fiscal measures that can be options for water pricing and behavioural, social and incentives can shift consumption and used to address climate how they can contribute more technological changes are crucial production patterns regarding change, with a specific focus substantively to the sustainable components of any green growth biodiversity-based goods and on the EU Emissions Trading financing of water resource strategy; specific research services; specific examples focus on System reform, management functions; specific focuses on the acceptance of ecological fiscal transfers in Brazil, macroeconomic effects and examples focus on water pricing environmental policy and the adaptation expenditures and examples from green fiscal and security in urban and rural adoption of technology. applications to the Convention on reform in the Netherlands. areas. Biological Diversity.

Moderator : Ian Parry , Moderator : Rene van Berkel , Moderator : Elke Weber , Jerome Moderator : Pushpam Kumar, Chief, Principal Environmental Fiscal Chief, Cleaner and Sustainable A. Chazen Professor of Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Policy Expert, Fiscal Affairs Production Unit, United Nations International Business, Columbia Division of Environmental Policy Department, International Industrial Development Business School Implementation, United Nations Monetary Fund Organization (GGKP Advisory Committee Environment Programme Member)

Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : - Edwin Van der Werf , Corjan - Mike Young : - P.K. Viswanathan , Chandra S. - Nils Droste , Guilherme Lima, Peter Brink, Herman Vollebergh, Fiscal instruments and water Bahinipati: May: Ecological fiscal transfers in Martijn Verdonk: scarcity; GGKP commissioned Determinants of adopting and Brazil - Incentivizing or refinancing Quantifying the effects of paper accessing benefits of conservation? reforming the EU Emissions environmentally benign - Elisa Delpiazzo , Gabriele Standardi, Trading System. A computable technologies: a study of micro Ramiro Parrado: general equilibrium analysis irrigation systems in North Fiscal implications of climate change

Gujarat, Western India impacts and adaptation policies in

- Jan Siegmeier , Linus - Dionisio Pérez -Blanco : - Estefania Santacreu Vasut , J. EU Mediterranean countries: An Mattauch, Ottmar Edenhofer: Water pricing and water saving Vives-Rego: application to sea level rise Climate policy enhances in agriculture. Insights from a Beliefs in technology and support - Markus Lehmann : efficiency: a macroeconomic revealed preference model in a for environmental taxes: an The Convention on Biological portfolio effect Mediterranean basin empirical investigation Diversity and environmental fiscal - Herman Vollebergh : - Eva Kyselá , Milan Ščasný, Iva measures About dykes and windmills: Zvěřinová:

learning from Dutch green What makes climate change

fiscal reform mitigation policies acceptable by

public? A review of influential factors

Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : - Mark Overman , Senior Policy - David Huberman , Policy Advisor - Malik Amin Aslam Khan , - Hussein Abaza , Senior Advisor Officer, Ministry of Infrastructure Economics and Environment, Swiss Global Vice President, to the Minister of Environment, and Environment, Netherlands Federal Department of Foreign IUCN/Chair Green Growth Egypt - Achim Halpaap , Senior Affairs Initiative - Yimeng Liu , Assistant Manager, Environment and - Martina Bozzola , Environmental - Hilen Meirovich , Climate Professor, Beijing Normal Green Development, United Economist, Trade and Environment, Change Lead Specialist, Inter- University, School of Economics Nations Institute for Training and International Trade Centre American Development Bank and Resource Management Research

18:10 -19: 00 Shuttle to Hotel Monaco and Grand Canal 19: 00-20:30 Cocktail reception at Hotel Monaco and Grand Canal

30 January Second Day of GGKP Annual Conference 2015

High-level panel discussion : Complementary structural policies for effective fiscal reform (Room: Aula Magna) 9:00-10:30 This high-level panel explores the broader framework in which green fiscal measures are deployed. More specifically, panellists will discuss the tools and fiscal instruments available to governments to identify, implement and fund efficient and feasible low-carbon trajectories.

Moderator : Cletus Springer , Director, Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States

Panellists : - Simon Upton , Director, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - Marianne Fay , Chief Economist, Climate Change Group, World Bank

Discussants: - Nick Robins , Co-Director, Inquiry into the Design Options for a Sustainable Financial System, United Nations Environment Programme - Jan Olsson , Environment Ambassador, Ministry of the Environment and Energy, Sweden

10: 30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12: 30 Parallel session D1: (Room: Aula Magna ) Parallel session D2: (Room 9B) Parallel session D3: (Room 10 B) Reforming environmentally harmful Measuring the effectiveness of fiscal reform Climate change and fiscal policy subsidies This session discusses the strengths and This session explores the use of fiscal This session focuses on how subsidy weaknesses of green fiscal reform including a instruments to mitigate and adapt to climate reform can be crucial for moving towards proposed framework for assessing change; specific examples focus on carbon a more sustainable development path; effectiveness, research on the net effect of fuel permit trading between the EU and China, and specific research focuses on the impact of taxes on global emissions, and fiscal linkages between climate policy, pensions and subsidies on carbon emissions and instruments being used in Asia. public finance. investment as well as the distributional impact of energy subsidy reform.

Moderator : Karste n Steinfatt , Counsellor, Moderator : Ann Harrison , Professor of Moderator : Mohan Munasinghe , Founder Trade and Environment Division, World Multinational Management, The Wharton Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Trade Organization School, University of Pennsylvania (GGKP Development Advisory Committee Member)

Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : - Debashis Chakraborty , Sacchidananda - Gilbert Metcalf : - Claire Gavard , Niven Winchester, Sergey Mukherjee: A conceptual framework for measuring the Paltsev: Does fiscal policy influence per capita CO2 effectiveness of green fiscal reforms; GGKP Limited sectoral trading between the EU emission: a cross-country empirical commissioned paper Emissions Trading Scheme and China analysis - Hari Bansha Dulal , Rajendra Dulal, Pramod - Emmanuel Combet , Jean Charles Hourcade: - Shelagh Whitley : Kumar Yadav: Carbon tax, pensions and public deficits: The At cross purposes: subsidies and climate Delivering green economy in Asia: the role of hidden cost of the compartmentalization of compatible investment fiscal instruments expertise - Thomas Sterner , Carolyn Fischer, Jared - Sebastian Renner , Jann Lay, Michael - Linus Mattauch , Jan Siegmeier, Max Franks, Carbone: Schleicher, Nunung Nuryartono: David Klenert, Anselm Schultes, Ottmar The net emissions effects of fuel taxes Poverty and distributional impacts of Edenhofer: energy subsidy reform in Indonesia A public finance perspective on climate policy: Six interactions that may enhance welfare

Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : - Hoseok Kim , Senior Research Fellow, Korea - Hendra Setiawan , Senior Assistant to - Aldo Ravazzi Douvan , Senior Adviser for Green Environment Institute the Minister for Economics and Growth, Sustainable Development and - Ingrid Jegou , Manager, Global Platform on Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environmental Fiscal Reform, DG Sustainable Climate Change, Trade and Sustainable Environment, Indonesia Development, Climate and Energy, Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italy Energy, International Centre for Trade and - Ronald Steenblik , Senior Trade Policy, - Miguel G. Breceda Lapeyre , Coordinator Sustainable Development Organisation for Economic Co-operation General for Green Growth, Instituto Nacional de and Development Ecología y Cambio Climático, México

12: 30 -13: 30 Lunch 13: 30 -14:15 Po ster session 14:15 -15: 45 Parallel session E1: (Room Parallel session E2: (Room 10B) Parallel session E3: (Room 10C) Parallel session E4: (Room 9C) 9B) Complementary policy for Climate change and the green Effective fiscal policy design for Addressing the promoting clean technology economy transition green growth implementation of innovation and adoption This session focuses on different This session examines different environmental taxes in This session discusses the need ways policymakers can stimulate instruments that can be used to developing countries for complementary policy options the transition toward a carbon- promote sustainable and more This session explores how to drive innovation and neutral economy, with specific case inclusive growth, with specific environmental taxation can investment in clean technology; studies on climate change public research that focuses on be an efficient and effective specific examples focus on expenditure, the Republic of environmental fiscal reform, way to promote green renewable energy in OECD Korea’s Green New Deal and trade in green goods and growth in developing countries, wind power in China California’s Cap-and-Trade services, and partnerships. countries, with specific case and the global adoption of program. studies on green tax fluorescent lamps.

schemes from South

America, Namibia and

Vietnam.

Moderator : Kevin Urama , Moderator : Gunnar Köhlin , Moderator : Sam Bickersteth , Chief Moderator : Paul Steele , Chief Managing Director/Head of Director, Environment for Executive Officer, Climate and Economist, International Institute Research, Quantum Global Development Development Knowledge Network for Environment and Research Lab AG Development

Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : Panellists : - Camila Gramkow : - Erika Jorgensen : - Zaid Asi : - Francesco Vona , Elena Fiscal policy towards green Climate change public expenditure Environmental fiscal reform Verdolini: growth in emerging and institutional reviews: linking Drivers of investments in cleaner fiscal policies to the green economy economies: the case of Brazil energy transition

- Carlos Chá vez , Hugo - Yang Liu , Taoyuan Wei: - Jonas Sonnenschein , Luis - Jetske Bouma , Ezra Berkhout : Salgado: Epidemic, rank, stock and order Mundaca: How do partnerships in Using Taxes to Deter Illegal effects in renewable energy Fiscal expansion as decarbonization international cooperation Fishing in ITQ systems diffusion: model and empirical policy. South Korea’s Green New contribute to inclusive green - Minh Nguyen Anh : evidence Dea’ 2009-2013 growth Implication of Vietnam's - Suchita Srinivasan : - Merritt Hughes : - Jaime De Melo, Mariana Vijil: environmental tax law in the The light at the end of the tunnel: Designing for structural change: The critical mass approach to green economy transition the impact of policy on the global modification to the California Cap- achieve a deal on green goods process diffusion of fluorescent lamps and-Trade Program and services: What is on the table? How much to expect?

Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : Discussants : -Jay Ram Adhikari , Under -Tilmann Liebert , Program - Marcos Eugenio da Silva - Mezgebu Amha Terefe , Secretary (Technical) and Officer, International Institute for Sapateiro , National Focal Point for Director, Macro-economic Bureau Member, IPBES, Sustainable Development Sustainable Development, Ministry Management Directorate, Ministry of Science, - José Palacín , Senior Economic for Coordination of Environmental Ministry of Finance and Economic Technology and Environment, Affairs Officer, United Nations Affairs, Mozambique Development, Ethiopia Nepal Economic Commission for Europe - Massimiliano Riva , Policy - Kurt van Dender , Head of Unit, - Zhan Feng Dong , Associate Specialist, Innovative Finance, Senior Tax Economist, Centre for Professor, Chinese Academy United Nations Development Tax Policy and Administration, for Environmental Planning Programme Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development

15:45-16:45 High-level panel: Catalyzing a global research agenda on fiscal policy for green growth (Room: Aula Magna) In this final high-level discussion, panellists will reflect on the key ideas to emerge from the conference, with a focus on how to further a global agenda on fiscal policy in support of a green economy transition. They will also discuss lessons learned, knowledge gaps identified, and ways to better promote collaborative and coordinated research.

Moderator : Elliott Harris , Director, United Nations Environment Management Group Secretariat

Panellists : - Yvo de Boer , Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute - Ligia Noronha , Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, United Nations Environment Programme - Thomas Sterner , Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg - Ian Parry , Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund

16:45-17:00 Closing and awards (Room: Aula Magna) - Steven Stone , Chief, Economics and Trade Branch, United Nations Environment Programme - Yvo de Boer , Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute - Carlo Carraro , Department of Economics, University of Venice