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The Drivers and Macroeconomic Impacts of Low-Carbon Innovation: A Cross-Country Exploration

By Zeina Hasna, Henry Hatton, Florence Jaumotte, Jaden Kim, Kamiar Mohaddes, Samuel Pienknagura

June 27, 2025

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Zeina Hasna, Henry Hatton, Florence Jaumotte, Jaden Kim, Kamiar Mohaddes, and Samuel Pienknagura. "The Drivers and Macroeconomic Impacts of Low-Carbon Innovation: A Cross-Country Exploration", IMF Working Papers 2025, 130 (2025), accessed June 28, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229015486.001

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This paper investigates how climate policies affect low-carbon innovation (as measured by patents) and assesses the link between such innovation and economic activity. Climate policies, including international cooperation, spur both specific and overall innovation, with regulations, emissions-trading systems, and expenditure measures such as R&D subsidies and feed-in tariffs being particularly impactful. In turn, low-carbon innovation raises economic activity as much as other types of innovation and past technological revolutions. However, the mechanisms are different: low-carbon innovation increases capital accumulation, while other types of innovation increase total factor productivity (TFP).

Subject: Climate change, Climate policy, Environment, Environmental policy, Oil prices, Prices, Technology

Keywords: Africa, Climate change, Climate change, Climate policies, Climate policy, Environmental policy, Global, Growth, Low-Carbon Innovation, Oil prices, Porter Hypothesis

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