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NilsDroste

Nils Droste

Associate professor

NilsDroste

A global review of ecological fiscal transfers

Author

  • 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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Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

756-765

Publication/Series

Nature Sustainability

Volume

4

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Topic

  • Human Geography

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2398-9629