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A Net-Zero Emissions Economic Recovery from COVID-19

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As the world emerges from the crisis of Covid-19, governments could introduce recovery packages to boost economic growth, including in the UK. These could have a highly significant impact on the UK’s future prosperity, including its potential to meet its legally mandated net-zero emissions obligation. Collectively, the packages will strongly influence whether the global Paris Agreement targets are met.

This briefing identifies ten fiscal recovery policies which promise to bring both short-term high economic impact, and long-term structural change through decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic growth.

Listen to our podcast Making the ‘New Normal Zero’ on this briefing, with guests Professor Cameron Hepburn, Smith School Oxford University, and Dr Jennifer Allan, University of Cardiff.

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