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No. 201 | 07 Oct 2022 |
Monitoring exposure to climate-related hazards
This paper supports countries in understanding the potential impact of climate-related natural hazards by assessing the exposure of people and assets to these hazards. It develops indicators of climate-related hazards and exposures for seven hazard... |
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No. 200 | 04 Oct 2022 |
Assessing the climate consistency of finance
This paper analyses existing methodologies developed by commercial services providers, research institutes or civil society organisations for investors and financial institutions, to assess the alignment of their assets and portfolios with the Paris... |
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No. 199 | 21 Sept 2022 |
Quantifying environmentally relevant and circular plastic innovation
Innovation is key to reducing the environmental impacts of plastics. However, literature is generally lacking in the field of environmentally relevant plastics innovation. This paper develops an innovative conceptual framework to document and map... |
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No. 198 | 15 Sept 2022 |
Projecting the fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles
The fuel efficiency of conventional private vehicles is a key input in the design of several economic and environmental policies. Reliable projections of the fuel efficiency variable can improve estimates on the future emission savings from policies... |
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No. 197 | 29 Jul 2022 |
The economic benefits of international co-operation to improve air quality in Northeast Asia
Air pollution is a global challenge to people’s health and has severe economic consequences. The region of Northeast Asia is no exception. Across most regions in Japan, and in the entire territories of Korea and China, annual average concentrations... |
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No. 196 | 21 Jul 2022 |
Climate-resilient finance and investment
Achieving climate-resilient economies and societies will not only require increasing the billions of financial flows for adaptation, but also shifting broader -- public and private -- financial flows and investment away from potentially mal-adapted... |
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No. 195 | 16 Jun 2022 |
Tackling air pollution in dense urban areas
Reducing air pollution is a major policy challenge, especially in densely populated urban areas where human exposure to emissions is considerable. This paper develops and examines a series of scenarios for the evolution of transport-related emissions... |
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No. 194 | 20 Apr 2022 |
Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap
Trade in plastic waste and scrap plays a potentially important role in helping to strengthen markets for recycled plastics as it can help to achieve economic efficiency through for instance economies of scale. But such trade has also been criticised... |
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No. 193 | 29 Apr 2022 |
Women’s leadership in environmental action
Women’s participation in environmental decision-making is important for advancing both gender equality and environmental action. The presence of women in political decision-making is linked to more ambitious climate goals and policies. Women on... |
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No. 192 | 28 Mar 2022 |
Digitalisation for the transition to a resource efficient and circular economy
Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as a means to help unlocking the benefits of more inclusive and sustainable growth and enhanced social well-being. In the environmental context, digitalisation can contribute to decoupling economic... |
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No. 191 | 10 Mar 2022 |
Carbon pricing and COVID-19
This paper assesses the role of carbon pricing in a sustainable recovery from COVID-19. It tracks the policy changes in carbon pricing within OECD and G20 countries between January 2020 and August 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carbon pricing as... |
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No. 190 | 04 Mar 2022 |
The cost of preventing ocean plastic pollution
This paper provides estimates of the cost of preventing land-based plastic leakage into the ocean, covering 38 OECD member countries and 10 selected major plastic waste emitters in Asia and Africa. The study estimates capital costs at EUR 54 billion... |
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No. 189 | 15 Feb 2022 |
The effect of climate policy on innovation and economic performance along the supply chain
The paper empirically assesses the effect of climate policy stringency on innovation and economic performance, both directly on regulated sectors and indirectly through supply chain relationships. The analysis is based on a combination of firm- and... |
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No. 188 | 15 Dec 2021 |
Managing the distributional effects of environmental and climate policies
This paper reviews the literature on the distributional effects of environmental and climate policies, focusing on ex-post empirical evidence. It decomposes the distributional effects into the main dimensions to understand which policy packages are... |
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No. 187 | 01 Dec 2021 |
Conducting economic valuation surveys during extreme events
There is no guidance on how to deal with the effects of catastrophic events, like the COVID-19 pandemic, on stated preference survey responses, despite the possible impact such events can have on stated values and survey responses. This paper... |
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No. 186 | 02 Dec 2021 |
Climate mitigation co-benefits from sustainable nutrient management in agriculture
Nitrogen management policies introduced in the past decades by some OECD countries have succeeded in reducing excess nitrogen use by farmers, but half of global mineral fertiliser use is still lost for crops. While about half of OECD countries have... |
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No. 185 | 30 Nov 2021 |
A global analysis of the cost-efficiency of forest carbon sequestration
This paper proposes a ranking of the countries where forest carbon sequestration is the most cost-efficient among 166 countries for which data are available. Taking into account the main cost factors leads to a more nuanced ranking of the countries... |
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No. 184 | 04 Nov 2021 |
Modulated fees for Extended Producer Responsibility schemes (EPR)
One of the key objectives of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is to instigate design for the environment. In collective EPR schemes, the fee schedule set by Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) is typically quite simple and provides... |
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No. 183 | 04 Nov 2021 |
Labelling and Information Schemes for the Circular Economy
Circular Economy Labels and Information Schemes (CELIS) compose the group of labels, certifications, standards of information schemes that fully or partially address one or more resource efficiency or circular economy elements. CELIS can play an... |
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No. 182 | 20 Oct 2021 |
Preventing single-use plastic waste
Single-use plastics constitute approximately half of global plastic waste generation. Their use in consumer goods and packaging has been the focus of recent waste prevention policy due to the importance of the volumes of waste generated and the... |
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Monitoring exposure to climate-related hazards
Mikaël J. A. Maes, Abel Gonzales-Hishinuma, Ivan Haščič, Claire Hoffmann, Alexandre Banquet, Paolo Veneri, Alexandre Bizeul, Arnau Risquez Martin and Roberta Quadrelli
07 Oct 2022
This paper supports countries in understanding the potential impact of climate-related natural hazards by assessing the exposure of people and assets to these hazards. It develops indicators of climate-related hazards and exposures for seven hazard...
Assessing the climate consistency of finance
Jolien Noels and Raphaël Jachnik
04 Oct 2022
This paper analyses existing methodologies developed by commercial services providers, research institutes or civil society organisations for investors and financial institutions, to assess the alignment of their assets and portfolios with the Paris...
Quantifying environmentally relevant and circular plastic innovation
Damien Dussaux and Shardul Agrawala
21 Sept 2022
Innovation is key to reducing the environmental impacts of plastics. However, literature is generally lacking in the field of environmentally relevant plastics innovation. This paper develops an innovative conceptual framework to document and map...
Projecting the fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles
Ioannis Tikoudis, Rose Mba Mebiame and Walid Oueslati
15 Sept 2022
The fuel efficiency of conventional private vehicles is a key input in the design of several economic and environmental policies. Reliable projections of the fuel efficiency variable can improve estimates on the future emission savings from policies...
The economic benefits of international co-operation to improve air quality in Northeast Asia
Elisa Lanzi, Enrico Botta, Grace Alexander, Daniel Ostalé Valriberas, Zbigniew Klimont, Gregor Kiesewetter, Chris Heyes and Rita Van Dingenen
29 Jul 2022
Air pollution is a global challenge to people’s health and has severe economic consequences. The region of Northeast Asia is no exception. Across most regions in Japan, and in the entire territories of Korea and China, annual average concentrations...
Climate-resilient finance and investment
Michael Mullan and Nicola Ranger
21 Jul 2022
Achieving climate-resilient economies and societies will not only require increasing the billions of financial flows for adaptation, but also shifting broader -- public and private -- financial flows and investment away from potentially mal-adapted...
Tackling air pollution in dense urban areas
Ioannis Tikoudis, Tobias Udsholt and Walid Oueslati
16 Jun 2022
Reducing air pollution is a major policy challenge, especially in densely populated urban areas where human exposure to emissions is considerable. This paper develops and examines a series of scenarios for the evolution of transport-related emissions...
Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap
Andrew Brown, Frithjof Laubinger and Peter Börkey
20 Apr 2022
Trade in plastic waste and scrap plays a potentially important role in helping to strengthen markets for recycled plastics as it can help to achieve economic efficiency through for instance economies of scale. But such trade has also been criticised...
Women’s leadership in environmental action
Sigita Strumskyte, Sara Ramos Magaña and Helene Bendig
29 Apr 2022
Women’s participation in environmental decision-making is important for advancing both gender equality and environmental action. The presence of women in political decision-making is linked to more ambitious climate goals and policies. Women on...
Digitalisation for the transition to a resource efficient and circular economy
Eva Barteková and Peter Börkey
28 Mar 2022
Digital transformation is increasingly recognised as a means to help unlocking the benefits of more inclusive and sustainable growth and enhanced social well-being. In the environmental context, digitalisation can contribute to decoupling economic...
Carbon pricing and COVID-19
Daniel Nachtigall, Jane Ellis and Sofie Errendal
10 Mar 2022
This paper assesses the role of carbon pricing in a sustainable recovery from COVID-19. It tracks the policy changes in carbon pricing within OECD and G20 countries between January 2020 and August 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carbon pricing as...
The cost of preventing ocean plastic pollution
Réka Soós, Andrew Whiteman and Gabriela Gavgas
04 Mar 2022
This paper provides estimates of the cost of preventing land-based plastic leakage into the ocean, covering 38 OECD member countries and 10 selected major plastic waste emitters in Asia and Africa. The study estimates capital costs at EUR 54 billion...
The effect of climate policy on innovation and economic performance along the supply chain
Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Tobias Kruse
15 Feb 2022
The paper empirically assesses the effect of climate policy stringency on innovation and economic performance, both directly on regulated sectors and indirectly through supply chain relationships. The analysis is based on a combination of firm- and...
Managing the distributional effects of environmental and climate policies
Francesco Vona
15 Dec 2021
This paper reviews the literature on the distributional effects of environmental and climate policies, focusing on ex-post empirical evidence. It decomposes the distributional effects into the main dimensions to understand which policy packages are...
Conducting economic valuation surveys during extreme events
Susana Mourato and Ganga Shreedhar
01 Dec 2021
There is no guidance on how to deal with the effects of catastrophic events, like the COVID-19 pandemic, on stated preference survey responses, despite the possible impact such events can have on stated values and survey responses. This paper...
Climate mitigation co-benefits from sustainable nutrient management in agriculture
Mikael Skou Andersen and Gérard Bonnis
02 Dec 2021
Nitrogen management policies introduced in the past decades by some OECD countries have succeeded in reducing excess nitrogen use by farmers, but half of global mineral fertiliser use is still lost for crops. While about half of OECD countries have...
A global analysis of the cost-efficiency of forest carbon sequestration
R. Quentin Grafton, Hoang Long Chu, Harry Nelson and Gérard Bonnis
30 Nov 2021
This paper proposes a ranking of the countries where forest carbon sequestration is the most cost-efficient among 166 countries for which data are available. Taking into account the main cost factors leads to a more nuanced ranking of the countries...
Modulated fees for Extended Producer Responsibility schemes (EPR)
Frithjof Laubinger, Andrew Brown, Maarten Dubois and Peter Börkey
04 Nov 2021
One of the key objectives of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is to instigate design for the environment. In collective EPR schemes, the fee schedule set by Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) is typically quite simple and provides...
Labelling and Information Schemes for the Circular Economy
Frithjof Laubinger and Peter Börkey
04 Nov 2021
Circular Economy Labels and Information Schemes (CELIS) compose the group of labels, certifications, standards of information schemes that fully or partially address one or more resource efficiency or circular economy elements. CELIS can play an...
Preventing single-use plastic waste
Elisabetta Cornago, Peter Börkey and Andrew Brown
20 Oct 2021
Single-use plastics constitute approximately half of global plastic waste generation. Their use in consumer goods and packaging has been the focus of recent waste prevention policy due to the importance of the volumes of waste generated and the...