Climate and Environment
Blog Post, Paper
Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Livings Standards Index and Integrated Headline Measure of Gross National Sustainable Development
How best to supplant or “dethrone” GDP alone as the paramount measure of national economic performance and international development standing? A new paper by a group of UN-affiliated economists, of which I am lead author, makes a concrete suggestion regarding this ultimate, high-ambition purpose of "Beyond GDP" reform. It comes as intergovernmental negotiations are due to begin later in the year on this complex topic following the issuance of a report by a High-Level Expert Group.
Report
Jobs and Skills for the New Economy: An Action Agenda for a People-Centered Climate Transition
Major report produced by an international research team of which I was co-lead author. The most detailed treatment to date of the likely labor market dynamics of a climate transition consistent with the Paris agreement's well-below-2-degree goal, including an extensive set of policy recommendations for governments, international organizations and companies.
Blog Post
Next, an international tax war?
A second major front is about to open in the global economic conflict the Trump Administration is provoking, this time regarding taxation.
Chapter
Human-Centred International Economic Policy: Institutionalizing Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in International Economic Governance and Cooperation (Chapter 6)
Palgrave Macmillan, Intl Labour Organization (ILO)
This book chapter presents a Bretton-Woods-like set of deep reforms of the international economic architecture, adapting the IMF, multilateral development banks, and WTO and other trade-related institutions to the challenges of the 21st century based on a post-neoliberal "Roosevelt Consensus" model of growth and development.
Video
Financing a Just Climate Transition
Panel discussion at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings hosted by Foreign Policy magazine in which I propose specific MDB and IMF reforms to greatly increase the availability of international financing to enable faster and more socially just climate action.
Video
Launch of International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at COP26
IFRS Foundation, Youtube
Joint announcement of the IFRS Foundation's decision to establish a new International Sustainability Standards Board, integrating the intellectual property and staff of CDSB and VRF. Participating in my capacity as CDSB Chairman and with IFRS Foundation Chairman Erkki Liikanen, Value Reporting Foundation Co-Chair Richard Sexton and Impact Management Project CEO and IFRSF advisor Clara Barby.
Paper
Financing Human-Centred COVID-19 Recovery and Decisive Climate Action Worldwide: International Cooperation’s 21st Century Moment of Truth
International Labour Organization (ILO)
This ILO Working Paper outlines how the existing capital and authorities of international financial institutions could be deployed to triple international development and climate finance for low-income and most middle-income countries for the next seven years, equivalent to twice the Marshall Plan's assistance to Europe following WWII.
Article
Give Climate and Trade Negotiators a New Joint Mission: Low-Carbon Trade Agreements
VoxEU
Article in leading European economic research outlet proposing a new type of plurilateral trade agreement or green trade alliance among a core group of major economies interested in aligning relevant enabling economic policies and standards for the purpose of accelerating adoption of low-carbon products and services across the world economy.
Article
How to Make Global Climate Action Go Viral
Forbes
Article proposing to scale climate action from the bottom up by establishing the setting and reporting of progress on emission targets as a bedrock principle of good governance in the 21st century for subnational governments (cities and provinces), corporations and other large organizations such as hospitals and universities.
Article
The Paris Accord Won’t Stop Global Warming on its Own
Foreign Policy
This magazine piece proposes a new type of plurilateral trade agreement, foreshadowing but going well beyond the 'Climate Club' initiative of Germany's 2019 G7 presidency, to coordinate multiple economic policies and standards of major economies in order to scale the penetration of low-carbon products and services in the world economy and avert a trade war over disparate carbon border adjustment schemes.