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No. 62 | 03 Oct 2013 |
A Characterisation of Environmental Labelling and Information Schemes
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the international landscape of environmental labelling and information schemes (ELIS), defined as policies and initiatives that aim to provide information about one or more aspects of the environmental... |
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No. 105 | 23 Apr 2016 |
A Review of Public Policies relating to the Use of Environmental Labelling and Information Schemes (ELIS)
This report provides a brief review of how national government policies and guidelines apply to or regulate the use of environmental labelling and information schemes (ELIS) in selected OECD countries. The report reviews definitions relevant to... |
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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. 40 | 26 Mar 2012 |
Adaptation and Innovation
Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can decrease the costs of policy measures and provide new opportunities for the private sector. However, most discussions of innovation... |
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No. 58 | 11 Sept 2013 |
Addressing Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage Impacts Arising from Multiple Carbon Markets
Competitiveness and carbon leakage issues have been some of the main concerns in the implementation and discussions of climate policies. These concerns are particularly important in the presence of multiple carbon markets since differences in climate... |
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No. 166 | 30 Jun 2020 |
Addressing the social consequences of tariffs for water supply and sanitation
Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives, such as ensuring the financial sustainability of service provision and ensuring access to all, including vulnerable and poor social... |
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No. 96 | 03 Dec 2015 |
Air Pollution and Urban Structure Linkages
This paper investigates the relationship between local air pollution and urban structure with an emphasis on urban fragmentation. Using a unique dataset of 249 Large Urban Zones (LUZ) across Europe, a Bayesian Model Averaging selection method is... |
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No. 41 | 15 Dec 2011 |
An Economic Projection to 2050: The OECD "ENV-Linkages" Model Baseline
This document describes economic baseline projections to 2050 for several world regions. It describes how socio-economic drivers are used to create a consistent projection of economic activity for the coming decades, applying the general framework of... |
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No. 65 | 11 Jun 2014 |
An Overview of the OECD ENV-Linkages Model
This document provides a detailed technical description of the ENV-Linkages model. The OECD ENV-Linkages Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is an economic model that describes how economic activities are inter-linked across several... |
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No. 153 | 20 Dec 2019 |
An assessment of the social costs and benefits of vehicle tax reform in Ireland
This paper presents the results of an ex post evaluation of the impacts of a vehicle tax reform in Ireland, by carrying out a full social cost benefit analysis of a vehicle tax reform that began in Ireland in 2008 and shows that whilst successful in... |
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No. 108 | 07 Jun 2016 |
Approaches and issues in valuing the costs of inaction of air pollution on human health
This paper presents a review of existing approaches to estimate the costs of inaction, as well as the benefits of policy action, for air pollution. It focuses primarily on health impacts from air pollution. The paper presents the “impact pathway... |
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No. 150 | 12 Aug 2019 |
Are environmental tax policies beneficial?
This paper provides a concrete example of how policy analysts can use empirical programme evaluation studies to perform ex-post assessments of environmentally related tax policies. A number of studies credibly identify causal effects of... |
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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. 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. 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. 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. 136 | 22 Oct 2018 |
Assessing the economic valuation of the benefits of regulating chemicals
This paper reviews and compares five case studies on quantification and economic valuation of benefits in cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of regulating phthalates, mercury, PFOA (perfluoro-octanic acid) and its salts, NMP (1 methyl-2-pyrroloidine) and... |
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No. 170 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Assessing the impact of energy prices on plant-level environmental and economic performance
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of energy price increases – induced notably by the removal of fossil fuel subsidies – on the joint environmental and economic performance of Indonesian plants in the manufacturing industry for... |
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No. 181 | 29 Sept 2021 |
Assessment of a social discount rate and financial hurdle rates for energy system modelling in Viet Nam
Viet Nam’s sustained economic development is driving increasing demand for electricity with generation capacity predicted to nearly double over the next decade. With the majority of economic hydropower resources utilised, delays in coal power... |
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No. 174 | 14 Apr 2021 |
Assessment of the air pollution tax and emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic
This paper assesses the design of the air pollution tax in conjunction with a stringency analysis of the emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic. The analysis draws upon a detailed database containing environmental reporting by industrial... |
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A Characterisation of Environmental Labelling and Information Schemes
Guillaume Gruère
03 Oct 2013
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the international landscape of environmental labelling and information schemes (ELIS), defined as policies and initiatives that aim to provide information about one or more aspects of the environmental...
A Review of Public Policies relating to the Use of Environmental Labelling and Information Schemes (ELIS)
Mikaël Klintman
23 Apr 2016
This report provides a brief review of how national government policies and guidelines apply to or regulate the use of environmental labelling and information schemes (ELIS) in selected OECD countries. The report reviews definitions relevant to...
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...
Adaptation and Innovation
Shardul Agrawala, Cécile Bordier, Victoria Schreitter and Valerie Karplus
26 Mar 2012
Innovation in technologies that promote mitigation and adaptation will be critical for tackling climate change. It can decrease the costs of policy measures and provide new opportunities for the private sector. However, most discussions of innovation...
Addressing Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage Impacts Arising from Multiple Carbon Markets
Elisa Lanzi, Damian Mullaly, Jean Château and Rob Dellink
11 Sept 2013
Competitiveness and carbon leakage issues have been some of the main concerns in the implementation and discussions of climate policies. These concerns are particularly important in the presence of multiple carbon markets since differences in climate...
Addressing the social consequences of tariffs for water supply and sanitation
Xavier Leflaive and Marit Hjort
30 Jun 2020
Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives, such as ensuring the financial sustainability of service provision and ensuring access to all, including vulnerable and poor social...
Air Pollution and Urban Structure Linkages
Miguel Cárdenas Rodríguez, Laura Dupont-Courtade and Walid Oueslati
03 Dec 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between local air pollution and urban structure with an emphasis on urban fragmentation. Using a unique dataset of 249 Large Urban Zones (LUZ) across Europe, a Bayesian Model Averaging selection method is...
An Economic Projection to 2050: The OECD "ENV-Linkages" Model Baseline
Jean Château, Cuauhtemoc Rebolledo and Rob Dellink
15 Dec 2011
This document describes economic baseline projections to 2050 for several world regions. It describes how socio-economic drivers are used to create a consistent projection of economic activity for the coming decades, applying the general framework of...
An Overview of the OECD ENV-Linkages Model
Jean Château, Rob Dellink and Elisa Lanzi
11 Jun 2014
This document provides a detailed technical description of the ENV-Linkages model. The OECD ENV-Linkages Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is an economic model that describes how economic activities are inter-linked across several...
An assessment of the social costs and benefits of vehicle tax reform in Ireland
Lisa Ryan, Ivan Petrov, Andrew Kelly, Yulu Guo and Sarah La Monaca
20 Dec 2019
This paper presents the results of an ex post evaluation of the impacts of a vehicle tax reform in Ireland, by carrying out a full social cost benefit analysis of a vehicle tax reform that began in Ireland in 2008 and shows that whilst successful in...
Approaches and issues in valuing the costs of inaction of air pollution on human health
Anna Alberini, Andrea Bigano, Jessica Post and Elisa Lanzi
07 Jun 2016
This paper presents a review of existing approaches to estimate the costs of inaction, as well as the benefits of policy action, for air pollution. It focuses primarily on health impacts from air pollution. The paper presents the “impact pathway...
Are environmental tax policies beneficial?
Jonas Teusch and Nils Axel Braathen
12 Aug 2019
This paper provides a concrete example of how policy analysts can use empirical programme evaluation studies to perform ex-post assessments of environmentally related tax policies. A number of studies credibly identify causal effects of...
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 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...
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...
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...
Assessing the economic valuation of the benefits of regulating chemicals
Ståle Navrud
22 Oct 2018
This paper reviews and compares five case studies on quantification and economic valuation of benefits in cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of regulating phthalates, mercury, PFOA (perfluoro-octanic acid) and its salts, NMP (1 methyl-2-pyrroloidine) and...
Assessing the impact of energy prices on plant-level environmental and economic performance
Arlan Brucal and Antoine Dechezleprêtre
25 Mar 2021
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of energy price increases – induced notably by the removal of fossil fuel subsidies – on the joint environmental and economic performance of Indonesian plants in the manufacturing industry for...
Assessment of a social discount rate and financial hurdle rates for energy system modelling in Viet Nam
Brendan Coleman
29 Sept 2021
Viet Nam’s sustained economic development is driving increasing demand for electricity with generation capacity predicted to nearly double over the next decade. With the majority of economic hydropower resources utilised, delays in coal power...
Assessment of the air pollution tax and emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic
Richard Juřík and Nils Axel Braathen
14 Apr 2021
This paper assesses the design of the air pollution tax in conjunction with a stringency analysis of the emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic. The analysis draws upon a detailed database containing environmental reporting by industrial...