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FINANCING LOSS AND DAMAGE: OVERVIEW OF TAX/LEVY INSTRUMENTS UNDER DISCUSSION

BY MATTHIEU WEMAËRE, LOLA VALLEJO AND MICHEL COLOMBIER
15 / 04 / 2023
Excavator at an opencast brown coal mine in Germany. Image credit: Unspash

This paper provides an overview of the various options of taxes and levies which have been proposed as instruments which could be used to mobilise additional climate finance. The aim is to be informative not to evaluate the efficacy of the proposals but rather to explain what they are and how they would work while also taking into consideration potential challenges for operationalisation and timing.

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