Green Recovery scenarios in Visegrad countries
Cambridge Econometrics is involved in analysing the potential of Green Recovery in various projects including work for the We Mean Business coalition and the UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy.
As a part of this endeavour, we also carried out an analysis of the potential of Green Recovery scenarios in the Visegrad group of countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic).
We found that while the impacts of these policies can differ across the countries, in general, Green Recovery policies can cut time needed for recovering to pre-COVID employment levels. Meanwhile they can severely reduce CO2 emissions, contributing to climate mitigation targets.
The analysis, published in November 2020, begins with estimating the annual 2020 impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in these countries and is followed by a modelling exercise, which quantifies the possible economic, labour and emission impacts of increased government spending towards green measures in the selected countries.
Click here for the Green Recovery Scenarios in Visegrad Countries working paper.