Santa Marta Pre-Conference | Clean Energy Incentives and the Policy Mix
Held as part of of the Academic Pre-Conference to the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, this session focuses on mobilizing clean energy investment through smart policy design. It examines how governments can deploy carbon pricing, tax incentives, and complementary measures to attract private capital, and how to build a policy mix that is fiscally sustainable, well-coordinated, and resilient.
Attracting investment into clean energy quickly and cost-effectively is crucial for governments seeking to reform fossil fuel subsidies and limit their exposure to future energy crises. This session will explore how to mobilize clean energy investment through carbon pricing, tax incentives, and other policy measures — and how to design a policy mix that optimizes for scale, and sustainability.
Discussion questions:
- What are the key obstacles or market failures to clean energy development for countries?
- What mix of policies is working (or not) and are these policies reinforcing or undermining each other?
- Which policies are most susceptible to loopholes or weak governance, and are some policies being used to soften the impact of others?
- How are finance, energy, and other agencies coordinating to keep the policy mix fiscally sustainable while still accelerating investment?
- How is the current energy crisis reshaping this landscape?
- What can countries attending Santa Marta coordinate on, and what support do countries need from the international community?
This session is held as part of the workstream Defunding fossils, funding transition workstream at the Science and Policy Pre-Conference.
Speakers
In person
- Dr. Marco Jano, Researcher, IDEA
- David Manley, Green Fiscal Policy Lead, IISD
- Dr. Ronald Steenblik, Senior Technical Advisor, Quaker United Nations Office, Switzerland
- Yanne Horas, Associate, IISD
Online
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