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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Ivana Ema Pavkova (OECD) for her research and substantive input on this paper, and OECD colleagues Jane Ellis, Raphaël Jachnik, Daniel Nachtigall, Alessia Pagani and Mauro Pisu, and IEA colleagues Sara Moarif, Cyril Cassisa and Britta Labuhn, for their comments to earlier drafts of this paper, and to Zofia Kunysz (OECD) and Gabriel Saive (IEA) for their support with background research. The authors would like to thank Gustavo Saboia Fontenele e Silva and Raquel Breda dos Santos (Brazil), Noriko Tamiya-Hase (Japan), Joel Bengtsson, Eva Jernbäcker and Jennifer Unelius (Sweden) and Helen Plume (New Zealand), as well as Axel Michaelowa, Juliana Kessler, Matthias Honegger and Hanna-Mari Ahonen (Perspectives Climate Group) for useful inputs to earlier drafts of this paper. The authors would also like to thank presenters and attendees at the September 2021 CCXG Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change, whose views and feedback helped shape the final document. The Secretariat would like to thank Belgium (Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety, Environment), Canada (Environment and Climate Change Canada), the European Commission, Finland (Ministry of the Environment), Germany (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety), Italy (Ministry for the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea), Japan (Ministry of the Environment), the Netherlands (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy), New Zealand (Ministry for the Environment), Norway (Ministry of Climate and Environment), Sweden (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) and Switzerland (Federal Office for the Environment) for their direct funding of the CCXG in 2021, and Costa Rica (Ministry of Environment and Energy), the OECD and IEA for their in-kind support of the CCXG.
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