The economisation of climate change : : how the G20, the OECD and the IMF address fossil fuel subsidies and climate finance / / Jakob Skovgaard, Lund University.

• Superior document: Physical Sciences
• VerfasserIn: Skovgaard, Jakob, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Physical Sciences
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).

The effort to address climate change cuts across a wide range of non-environmental actors and policy areas, including international economic institutions such as the Group of Twenty (G20), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These...

Table of Contents

• Part I. Introduction
• 1. Introduction: the economisation of climate change and why it matters in the case of international economic institutions
• Part II. Setting the stage
• 2. A framework for studying institutional output and Its alignment, causes and consequences
• 3. The three institutions, their roles and the environment
• Part III. Fossil fuel subsidies
• 4. Fossil fuel subsidies: key issues
• 5. The G20 and fossil fuel subsidies: the catalyst
• 6. The OECD and fossil fuel subsidies: the knowledge provider
• 7. The IMF and fossil fuel subsidies: the unexpected environmentalist
• 8. The alignment of economic institutions on fossil fuel subsidies: synergies, but definitions can be divisive
• Part IV. Climate finance
• 9. Climate finance: key issues
• 10. The G20 and climate finance: introducing finance ministries to the topic
• 11. The OECD and climate finance: development and investment
• 12. The IMF and climate finance: carbon pricing rears its head
• 13. The alignment of economic institutions on climate finance: efficiency in development and investment, but also carbon pricing
• Part V. Conclusions
• 14. Conclusions.