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No. 13 | 11 Jan 2010 |
Linkages between Environmental Policy and Competitiveness
Debates exist between those who claim that environmental policy will impose additional burdens and costs on industries, thus impairing their competitiveness, and those who claim that improved environmental performance can spur competitiveness. These... |
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No. 12 | 18 May 2010 |
Enhancing Developing Country Access to Eco-Innovation
The deployment of eco-innovations in developing countries is a key driver of their contribution to efficiently addressing global environmental challenges. It is also a key driver of markets for eco-innovation and sustainable economic development.... |
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No. 11 | 27 Nov 2009 |
Promoting Biodiversity Co-Benefits in REDD
This report examines how biodiversity co-benefits in REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) can be enhanced, both at the design and implementation level. It discusses potential biodiversity implications of different REDD... |
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No. 10 | 17 Dec 2009 |
Policies for the Development and Transfer of Eco-Innovations
Along with the recent success of economic growth in the developing world comes more pollution. Reducing these emissions while still enabling these countries to grow requires the use of new technologies in these countries. In most cases, these... |
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No. 9 | 17 Dec 2009 |
Literature Review of Recent Trends and Future Prospects for Innovation in Climate Change Mitigation
The international discussion about global climate change now revolves around what the necessary set of policies and technologies will be needed to realize reduction goals. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations at 450 to 550... |
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No. 8 | 14 May 2009 |
Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness calls upon donor and partner countries to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of country systems in a way that guarantees ownership and sustainable results. Within this context, the current paper... |
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No. 7 | 14 May 2009 |
Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-year Budgetary Frameworks
Medium-term approaches to budgeting are now common in OECD countries and are being adopted increasingly by developing countries. This reflects a realisation that the annual approach to budget making actually undermines budgetary performance,... |
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No. 6 | 24 Mar 2009 |
Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change
The present report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is facilitated here by examining adaptation within global Integrated Assessment... |
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No. 5 | 26 Jan 2009 |
Greening Development Planning
Different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning are reviewed in this report. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture, mining, forestry, fishery, nature-based... |
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No. 4 | 10 Dec 2008 |
The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale
Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are... |
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No. 3 | 08 Oct 2008 |
Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Risk in Port Cities
This study illustrates a methodology to assess economic impacts of climate change at city scale, focusing on sea level rise and storm surge. It is based on a statistical analysis of past storm surges in the studied city, matched to a... |
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No. 2 | 06 Jun 2008 |
The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution
How much does the environment affect human health? Is air pollution shortening our lives and those of our children? These questions are fundamental to environmental policies. Air pollution is a major environmental health threat in OECD countries,... |
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No. 1 | 19 Nov 2008 |
Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes
This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities to coastal flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate change is likely to impact each... |
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Linkages between Environmental Policy and Competitiveness
OECD
11 Jan 2010
Debates exist between those who claim that environmental policy will impose additional burdens and costs on industries, thus impairing their competitiveness, and those who claim that improved environmental performance can spur competitiveness. These...
Enhancing Developing Country Access to Eco-Innovation
David Ockwell, Jim Watson, Alexandra Mallett, Ruediger Haum, Gordon MacKerron and Anne-Marie Verbeken
18 May 2010
The deployment of eco-innovations in developing countries is a key driver of their contribution to efficiently addressing global environmental challenges. It is also a key driver of markets for eco-innovation and sustainable economic development....
Promoting Biodiversity Co-Benefits in REDD
Katia Karousakis
27 Nov 2009
This report examines how biodiversity co-benefits in REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) can be enhanced, both at the design and implementation level. It discusses potential biodiversity implications of different REDD...
Policies for the Development and Transfer of Eco-Innovations
David Popp
17 Dec 2009
Along with the recent success of economic growth in the developing world comes more pollution. Reducing these emissions while still enabling these countries to grow requires the use of new technologies in these countries. In most cases, these...
Literature Review of Recent Trends and Future Prospects for Innovation in Climate Change Mitigation
Richard G. Newell
17 Dec 2009
The international discussion about global climate change now revolves around what the necessary set of policies and technologies will be needed to realize reduction goals. Stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations at 450 to 550...
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness calls upon donor and partner countries to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of country systems in a way that guarantees ownership and sustainable results. Within this context, the current paper...
Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-year Budgetary Frameworks
Nelly Petkova
14 May 2009
Medium-term approaches to budgeting are now common in OECD countries and are being adopted increasingly by developing countries. This reflects a realisation that the annual approach to budget making actually undermines budgetary performance,...
Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change
Kelly de Bruin, Rob Dellink and Shardul Agrawala
24 Mar 2009
The present report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. This is facilitated here by examining adaptation within global Integrated Assessment...
Greening Development Planning
Olof Drakenberg, Sandra Paulsen, Jessica Andersson, Emelie Dahlberg, Kristoffer Darin Mattsson and Elisabeth Wikstrom
26 Jan 2009
Different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning are reviewed in this report. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture, mining, forestry, fishery, nature-based...
The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale
Stéphane Hallegatte, Fanny Henriet and Jan Corfee-Morlot
10 Dec 2008
Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are...
Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Risk in Port Cities
Stéphane Hallegatte, Nicola Patmore, Olivier Mestre, Patrice Dumas, Jan Corfee-Morlot, Celine Herweijer and Robert Muir-Wood
08 Oct 2008
This study illustrates a methodology to assess economic impacts of climate change at city scale, focusing on sea level rise and storm surge. It is based on a statistical analysis of past storm surges in the studied city, matched to a...
The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution
Pascale Scapecchi
06 Jun 2008
How much does the environment affect human health? Is air pollution shortening our lives and those of our children? These questions are fundamental to environmental policies. Air pollution is a major environmental health threat in OECD countries,...
Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes
R. J. Nicholls, S. Hanson, Celine Herweijer, Nicola Patmore, Stéphane Hallegatte, Jan Corfee-Morlot, Jean Château and Robert Muir-Wood
19 Nov 2008
This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities to coastal flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate change is likely to impact each...