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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. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 14 | 02 Dec 2009 |
Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance
Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the... |
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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. 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. 15 | 12 Feb 2010 |
Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation... |
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No. 16 | 16 Mar 2010 |
Environmental Policy Design Characteristics and Technological Innovation
This paper focuses on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement, wastewater effluent treatment, solid waste management, and climate change mitigation. The paper describes the trends in innovative activity... |
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No. 17 | 05 May 2010 |
Differentiated Intellectual Property Regimes for Environmental and Climate Technologies
Prior to the Copenhagen meeting on developing a new framework for climate-change policy there were sharp differences between the positions of developed and developing countries regarding the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in fostering... |
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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. 18 | 10 Jun 2010 |
Outcome Performance Measures of Environmental Compliance Assurance
This report analyses the experience of ten OECD countries in the design and implementation of quantitative indicators used to assess the outcomes of environmental enforcement authorities’ efforts to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and... |
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No. 19 | 03 Aug 2010 |
Voluntary Carbon Markets
In this paper, we aim to examine how voluntary carbon markets can provide a valuable contribution to strengthening domestic and international climate policies. Voluntary markets are defined as small and unregulated segments of an established carbon... |
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No. 22 | 04 Aug 2010 |
Costs, Revenues, and Effectiveness of the Copenhagen Accord Emission Pledges for 2020
Tackling the problem of global climate change requires a high level of international cooperation. Many countries have pledged targets or actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Appendices to the Copenhagen Accord. This analysis examines the... |
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance
Jan Corfee-Morlot, Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Michael G. Donovan, Ian Cochran, Alexis Robert and Pierre-Jonathan Teasdale
02 Dec 2009
Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the...
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...
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...
Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
Shardul Agrawala and Maëlis Carraro
12 Feb 2010
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation...
Environmental Policy Design Characteristics and Technological Innovation
Nick Johnstone, Ivan Haščič and Margarita Kalamova
16 Mar 2010
This paper focuses on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement, wastewater effluent treatment, solid waste management, and climate change mitigation. The paper describes the trends in innovative activity...
Differentiated Intellectual Property Regimes for Environmental and Climate Technologies
Keith Maskus
05 May 2010
Prior to the Copenhagen meeting on developing a new framework for climate-change policy there were sharp differences between the positions of developed and developing countries regarding the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in fostering...
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....
Outcome Performance Measures of Environmental Compliance Assurance
Eugene Mazur
10 Jun 2010
This report analyses the experience of ten OECD countries in the design and implementation of quantitative indicators used to assess the outcomes of environmental enforcement authorities’ efforts to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and...
Voluntary Carbon Markets
Pierre Guigon
03 Aug 2010
In this paper, we aim to examine how voluntary carbon markets can provide a valuable contribution to strengthening domestic and international climate policies. Voluntary markets are defined as small and unregulated segments of an established carbon...
Costs, Revenues, and Effectiveness of the Copenhagen Accord Emission Pledges for 2020
Rob Dellink, Gregory Briner and Christa Clapp
04 Aug 2010
Tackling the problem of global climate change requires a high level of international cooperation. Many countries have pledged targets or actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Appendices to the Copenhagen Accord. This analysis examines the...