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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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No. 49 | 07 Nov 2012 |
Behavioural Economics and Environmental Incentives
This review aims to improve our understanding of the implications of the insights from behavioural economics for environmental policy design. The review focuses on the question of incentive design in two broad areas — risk, conflict and cooperation;... |
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No. 90 | 31 Jul 2015 |
Biodiversity Policy Response Indicators
This paper reviews a number of OECD data sources to examine their potential for establishing indicators which can contribute to monitoring progress towards two of the 2011-2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity... |
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No. 245 | 19 Jul 2024 |
Bridging the clean energy investment gap
The rapid and deep emissions reductions needed to keep global warming to 1.5°C rely critically on an immense scaling-up of investment in clean energy technologies. The cost of capital plays a key role in determining investment decisions and, when... |
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No. 21 | 04 Aug 2010 |
Buying and Cancelling Allowances as an Alternative to Offsets for the Voluntary Market
In recent years, businesses, local governments and individuals have set goals for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to directly reducing their own emissions, many of these entities have purchased carbon offsets to help achieve... |
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No. 25 | 10 Feb 2011 |
Capacity Development for Environmental Management and Governance in the Energy Sector in Developing Countries
The relationships between energy, the environment, and development are deep and complex. The International Energy Agency has noted that energy is deeply implicated in each of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of human development.... |
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No. 26 | 10 Feb 2011 |
Capacity Development for Environmental Management in the Agricultural Sector in Developing Countries
The relationships between agriculture, the environment, and development are deep and complex. By 2050 a 70 per cent increase in production will be needed to feed an additional 2.7 billion people on an already degraded natural resource base. In light... |
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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. 152 | 21 Nov 2019 |
Carbon pricing and competitiveness
This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 countries in the electricity and industrial sectors. Most of these assessments find no statistically significant effects of carbon... |
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No. 112 | 20 Dec 2016 |
Causes and Consequences of Open Space in U.S. Urban Areas
The provision of open space is at the heart of a complex arbitration of local public finance and urban quality of life. The amount of open space varies substantially across urban areas. This variation raises some natural questions: What determines... |
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No. 117 | 14 Mar 2017 |
Chemical risk assessment and translation to socio-economic assessments
The purpose of this working paper is to review existing chemical risk assessment methods in the context of supporting socio-economic cost-benefit analysis, focusing on more “typical” risk assessments that may not have strong epidemiologic data and/or... |
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No. 29 | 19 Nov 2010 |
Cities and Carbon Market Finance
The importance of cities in climate policy stems from the simple reality that they house the majority of the world’s population, two-thirds of world energy use and over 70% of global energy use emissions. At the international level, global carbon... |
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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. 140 | 03 Dec 2018 |
Clean power for a cool planet
Meeting the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement requires a transformational change in our infrastructure systems. Given the long lifetime of infrastructure, there is an urgency to build more of the right type of it. The failure to do so will... |
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No. 120 | 07 Apr 2017 |
Climate Change Adaptation and Financial Protection
Developing countries are disproportionately affected by the rising trend of losses from climate-related extreme events. These losses are projected to continue to increase in future, driven by climate change and the accumulation of people and assets... |
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No. 50 | 16 Nov 2012 |
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Africa
This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa. Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of... |
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No. 30 | 15 Dec 2010 |
Climate Policy and Technological Innovation and Transfer
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives. As such, understanding the linkages between environmental policy and technological innovation in achieving environmental objectives is important. This is particularly... |
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No. 223 | 28 Sept 2023 |
Climate change mitigation scenarios for financial sector target setting and alignment assessment
Climate change mitigation scenarios are a key forward-looking input for a range of financial sector analyses and assessments. The inaccurate use of mitigation scenarios can, however, contribute to unintended incentives, environmental integrity... |
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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...
Behavioural Economics and Environmental Incentives
Jason Shogren
07 Nov 2012
This review aims to improve our understanding of the implications of the insights from behavioural economics for environmental policy design. The review focuses on the question of incentive design in two broad areas — risk, conflict and cooperation;...
Biodiversity Policy Response Indicators
Christina Van Winkle, Katia Karousakis, Rosalind Bark and Martijn van der Heide
31 Jul 2015
This paper reviews a number of OECD data sources to examine their potential for establishing indicators which can contribute to monitoring progress towards two of the 2011-2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity...
Bridging the clean energy investment gap
Cian Montague, Kilian Raiser and Moongyung Lee
19 Jul 2024
The rapid and deep emissions reductions needed to keep global warming to 1.5°C rely critically on an immense scaling-up of investment in clean energy technologies. The cost of capital plays a key role in determining investment decisions and, when...
Buying and Cancelling Allowances as an Alternative to Offsets for the Voluntary Market
Anja Kollmuss and Michael Lazarus
04 Aug 2010
In recent years, businesses, local governments and individuals have set goals for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. In addition to directly reducing their own emissions, many of these entities have purchased carbon offsets to help achieve...
Capacity Development for Environmental Management and Governance in the Energy Sector in Developing Countries
George Matheson and Laurie Giroux
10 Feb 2011
The relationships between energy, the environment, and development are deep and complex. The International Energy Agency has noted that energy is deeply implicated in each of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of human development....
Capacity Development for Environmental Management in the Agricultural Sector in Developing Countries
Constance L. Neely
10 Feb 2011
The relationships between agriculture, the environment, and development are deep and complex. By 2050 a 70 per cent increase in production will be needed to feed an additional 2.7 billion people on an already degraded natural resource base. In light...
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...
Carbon pricing and competitiveness
Jane Ellis, Daniel Nachtigall and Frank Venmans
21 Nov 2019
This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 countries in the electricity and industrial sectors. Most of these assessments find no statistically significant effects of carbon...
Causes and Consequences of Open Space in U.S. Urban Areas
JunJie Wu, Walid Oueslati and Jialing Yu
20 Dec 2016
The provision of open space is at the heart of a complex arbitration of local public finance and urban quality of life. The amount of open space varies substantially across urban areas. This variation raises some natural questions: What determines...
Chemical risk assessment and translation to socio-economic assessments
Weihsueh A. Chiu
14 Mar 2017
The purpose of this working paper is to review existing chemical risk assessment methods in the context of supporting socio-economic cost-benefit analysis, focusing on more “typical” risk assessments that may not have strong epidemiologic data and/or...
Cities and Carbon Market Finance
Christa Clapp, Alexia Leseur, Oliver Sartor, Gregory Briner and Jan Corfee-Morlot
19 Nov 2010
The importance of cities in climate policy stems from the simple reality that they house the majority of the world’s population, two-thirds of world energy use and over 70% of global energy use emissions. At the international level, global carbon...
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...
Clean power for a cool planet
Mariana Mirabile and Jennifer Calder
03 Dec 2018
Meeting the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement requires a transformational change in our infrastructure systems. Given the long lifetime of infrastructure, there is an urgency to build more of the right type of it. The failure to do so will...
Climate Change Adaptation and Financial Protection
Gisela Campillo, Michael Mullan and Lola Vallejo
07 Apr 2017
Developing countries are disproportionately affected by the rising trend of losses from climate-related extreme events. These losses are projected to continue to increase in future, driven by climate change and the accumulation of people and assets...
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Africa
Ivan Haščič, Jérôme Silva and Nick Johnstone
16 Nov 2012
This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa. Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of...
Climate Policy and Technological Innovation and Transfer
Ivan Haščič, Nick Johnstone, Fleur Watson and Christopher Kaminker
15 Dec 2010
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives. As such, understanding the linkages between environmental policy and technological innovation in achieving environmental objectives is important. This is particularly...
Climate change mitigation scenarios for financial sector target setting and alignment assessment
Jolien Noels, Coline Pouille, Raphaël Jachnik and Marcia Rocha
28 Sept 2023
Climate change mitigation scenarios are a key forward-looking input for a range of financial sector analyses and assessments. The inaccurate use of mitigation scenarios can, however, contribute to unintended incentives, environmental integrity...