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This policy brief argues that self-reported methane emissions from US oil and gas operators are significantly underreported, which undermines climate progress and the effectiveness of the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) Waste Emissions Charge. The author advocates for the integration of empirical data and remote sensing to capture 'super-emitting' events and ensure accurate financial penalties and mitigation efforts.

This briefing analyzes the potential impacts of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework's global digital tax reforms on resource-rich countries, specifically within the mining sector. While framed as a digital tax, the two-pillar approach has broad implications for how mining multinationals are taxed and how revenue is allocated between producer countries and market jurisdictions.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and PUC-Rio analyzes whether the tax exemptions provided by the Manaus Free Trade Zone (ZFM) have improved the productive and energy efficiency of industries in the region compared to the rest of Brazil between 2003 and 2015. The study concludes that despite significant fiscal incentives, there is no evidence of efficiency gains at either the aggregate or sectoral levels.