This publication is an urgent call to action and provides policy makers with information to enable the design and implement fiscal policies that reduce incentives for deforestation, forest degradation, and land use change and instead encourage forest conservation, sustainable management, and green global value chains. Existing fiscal policies already provide incentives, oftentimes incentivizing short-lived economic growth through exhausting natural resources and merely turning natural capital into physical capital without creating net value. This book aims to empower decisionmakers to harness the power of fiscal policy for consciously creating incentives that direct development onto a more sustainable path. This book offers a vital reference for policy makers to do just that moving forward.




