A global review of ecological fiscal transfers

Jonah Busch; Irene Ring; Monique Akullo; Oyut Amarjargal; Maud Borie; Rodrigo S. Cassola; Annabelle Cruz-Trinidad; Nils Droste; Joko Tri Haryanto; Ulan Kasymov; Nataliia Viktorivna Kotenko; Ariunaa Lhkagvadorj; Felipe Luiz Lima De Paulo; Peter H. May; Anit Mukherjee; Sonny Mumbunan; Rui Santos; Luca Tacconi; Gracie Verde Selva; Madhu Verma; Xiaoxi Wang; Lu Yu; Kecen Zhou

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A global review of ecological fiscal transfers

Jonah Busch^*, Irene Ring, Monique Akullo, Oyut Amarjargal, Maud Borie, Rodrigo S. Cassola, Annabelle Cruz-Trinidad, Nils Droste, Joko Tri Haryanto, Ulan Kasymov, Nataliia Viktorivna Kotenko, Ariunaa Lhkagvadorj, Felipe Luiz Lima De Paulo, Peter H. May, Anit Mukherjee, Sonny Mumbunan, Rui Santos, Luca Tacconi, Gracie Verde Selva, Madhu VermaXiaoxi Wang, Lu Yu, Kecen Zhou

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Abstract

Ecological fiscal transfers (EFT) transfer public revenue between governments within a country based on ecological indicators. EFT can compensate subnational governments for the costs of conserving ecosystems and in principle can incentivize greater ecological conservation. We review established EFT in Brazil, Portugal, France, China and India, and emerging or proposed EFT in ten more countries. We analyse common themes related to EFT emergence, design and effects. EFT have grown rapidly from US$0.35 billion yr⁻¹ in 2007 to US$23 billion yr⁻¹ in 2020. We discuss the scope of opportunity to expand EFT to other countries by ‘greening’ intergovernmental fiscal transfers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	756-765
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	4
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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Busch, J., Ring, I., Akullo, M., Amarjargal, O., Borie, M., Cassola, R. S., Cruz-Trinidad, A., Droste, N., Haryanto, J. T., Kasymov, U., Kotenko, N. V., Lhkagvadorj, A., De Paulo, F. L. L., May, P. H., Mukherjee, A., Mumbunan, S., Santos, R., Tacconi, L., Verde Selva, G., ... Zhou, K. (2021). A global review of ecological fiscal transfers. Nature Sustainability, 4(9), 756-765. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0

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