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A global review of ecological fiscal transfers

Busch, Jonah ; Ring, Irene ; Akullo, Monique ; Amarjargal, Oyut ; Borie, Maud ; Cassola, Rodrigo S. ; Cruz-Trinidad, Annabelle ; Droste, Nils LU orcid ; Haryanto, Joko Tri and Kasymov, Ulan , et al. (2021) In Nature Sustainability 4(9). p.756-765
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.

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2398-9629
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10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0
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Funding Information: This Review is the result of an international online workshop on EFT hosted by the Earth Innovation Institute and Technische Universität Dresden on 21–24 September 2020. G. Lima provided helpful input on data analysis for Brazil. J.B. and O.A. are grateful for funding from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. R.S. acknowledges that CENSE is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (project number UIDB/04085/2020). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Springer Nature Limited. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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  author       = {{Busch, Jonah and Ring, Irene and Akullo, Monique and Amarjargal, Oyut and Borie, Maud and Cassola, Rodrigo S. and Cruz-Trinidad, Annabelle and Droste, Nils and Haryanto, Joko Tri and Kasymov, Ulan and Kotenko, Nataliia Viktorivna and Lhkagvadorj, Ariunaa and De Paulo, Felipe Luiz Lima and May, Peter H. and Mukherjee, Anit and Mumbunan, Sonny and Santos, Rui and Tacconi, Luca and Verde Selva, Gracie and Verma, Madhu and Wang, Xiaoxi and Yu, Lu and Zhou, Kecen}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{9}},
  pages        = {{756--765}},
  publisher    = {{Nature Publishing Group}},
  series       = {{Nature Sustainability}},
  title        = {{A global review of ecological fiscal transfers}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0}},
  doi          = {{10.1038/s41893-021-00728-0}},
  volume       = {{4}},
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