Are We Building Back Better - COP26 Update

Oxford University Economic Recovery Project

October 2021 in partnership with the UNDP, UN PAGE, and the Green Fiscal Policy Network (IMF, UNEP, and German Agency for International Cooperation)

Details: Governments are not reorienting their economies to a green future and vulnerable nations are being left behind.

COP26 has been anticipated as an inflection point in the fight against climate change. However, governments have so far failed to take advantage of their greatest ever fiscal opportunity on climate change—the COVID-19 economic recovery.

In this update, we present the latest data from the Global Recovery Observatory on global patterns in COVID-19 spending.

Suggested Citation: Oxford University Economic Recovery Project. Are We Building Back Better: COP26 Update