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No. 143 | 11 Feb 2019 |
Evaluating the Impact of Urban Road Pricing on the Use of Green Transport Modes
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of congestion pricing on the demand for clean transport modes. To this end, it draws on an empirical analysis of the effect of Milan’s congestion charge on the use of bike sharing. The analysis... |
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No. 141 | 13 Dec 2018 |
Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity
This report provides an overview of methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity, covering impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis and other more commonly used approaches. It then provides an inventory of... |
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No. 69 | 08 Jul 2014 |
Exploring Potential Data Sources for Estimating Private Climate Finance
The paper reviews a number of commercial and public data sources to examine their potential for increasing coverage and understanding of the volume and characteristics of private climate finance beyond renewable energy projects. Such information is... |
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No. 221 | 24 Jul 2023 |
Exploring new metrics to measure environmental innovation
Several efforts have been made to track progress on environmental innovations using very different approaches. However, many lack coverage, granularity, timeliness and may involve high data collection costs, especially when conducted on a large... |
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No. 159 | 17 Mar 2020 |
Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments
This paper presents results from a first pilot study to measure the consistency of real economy investments with climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing industries... |
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No. 163 | 20 May 2020 |
Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments
Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR... |
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No. 95 | 03 Dec 2015 |
Exploring the Effect of Urban Structure on Individual Well-Being
Building on the OECD’s Better Life Initiative and new work using geospatial analysis, this paper investigates how reported life satisfaction relates to some of the urban structure indicators. To this end, it merges OECD household survey data with... |
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No. 175 | 04 May 2021 |
Exploring the impact of shared mobility services on CO2
Policy action to avoid the impending societal costs of climate change is particularly warranted in transport sector, which is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in OECD countries. To design appropriate interventions in this sector,... |
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No. 100 | 01 Mar 2016 |
Exploring the relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the macroeconomic relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs between countries which have... |
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No. 142 | 23 Jan 2019 |
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Impact of Online Sales
Extended producer responsibility or product stewardship is a policy approach that aims to increase waste recovery and recycling. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems aim to make producers responsible for the environmental impacts of their... |
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No. 227 | 29 Nov 2023 |
Financing cost impacts on cost competitiveness of green hydrogen in emerging and developing economies
Green hydrogen, produced from water and renewable power through the electrolysis process, can play a crucial role in the low-carbon transition to achieve the net-zero emission targets. Currently, the production cost of green hydrogen is not... |
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No. 226 | 29 Nov 2023 |
Financing solutions to foster industrial decarbonisation in emerging and developing economies
Industry decarbonisation is a cornerstone to reach net-zero emissions by this mid-century. The diversity of industrial activities, processes and products, the complexity of global industrial value chains, and the international competition make... |
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No. 171 | 26 Mar 2021 |
Financing water security for sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia Water Development Outlook – a flagship publication by the Asian Development Bank - monitors progress in water security in the Asia Pacific region. For the first time, the 2020 edition documents financing flows that contribute to – or that... |
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No. 103 | 12 Apr 2016 |
Firm Surveys relating Environmental Policies, Environmental Performance and Innovation
This report provides a review of recent firm-level and plant-level surveys containing questions on environmental policies, innovation practices or performance which are relevant for environmental policy analysis and assessment. We specifically focus... |
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No. 151 | 16 Aug 2019 |
Flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations
Based on an in-depth literature review and responses to a survey among OECD member countries, this paper discusses the use of flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations. Such mechanisms can provide flexibility as to how a given environmental... |
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No. 27 | 22 Nov 2010 |
Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai
Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application to flood... |
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No. 230 | 15 Mar 2024 |
GHG Emission Trends and Targets (GETT)
The Paris Agreement maps out a path for internationally coordinated efforts to curb global warming. At the centre of the Paris Agreement are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that establish countries’ plans to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG)... |
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No. 47 | 20 Sept 2012 |
Green Transformation of Small Businesses
This report aims to help environmental and other competent authorities in OECD countries to promote green business practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It analyses different ways to establish environmental regulatory... |
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No. 205 | 09 Nov 2022 |
Green hydrogen opportunities for emerging and developing economies
Hydrogen is a cross-cutting energy vector that can help to decarbonise various end-use sectors. At least two-thirds of the global hydrogen production is projected to be green hydrogen by 2050, supporting the transition to a net-zero emissions global... |
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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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Evaluating the Impact of Urban Road Pricing on the Use of Green Transport Modes
Elisabetta Cornago, Alexandros Dimitropoulos and Walid Oueslati
11 Feb 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of congestion pricing on the demand for clean transport modes. To this end, it draws on an empirical analysis of the effect of Milan’s congestion charge on the use of bike sharing. The analysis...
Evaluating the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity
Katia Karousakis
13 Dec 2018
This report provides an overview of methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity, covering impact evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis and other more commonly used approaches. It then provides an inventory of...
Exploring Potential Data Sources for Estimating Private Climate Finance
Randy Caruso and Raphaël Jachnik
08 Jul 2014
The paper reviews a number of commercial and public data sources to examine their potential for increasing coverage and understanding of the volume and characteristics of private climate finance beyond renewable energy projects. Such information is...
Exploring new metrics to measure environmental innovation
Damien Dussaux, Alberto Agnelli and Nordine Es-Sadki
24 Jul 2023
Several efforts have been made to track progress on environmental innovations using very different approaches. However, many lack coverage, granularity, timeliness and may involve high data collection costs, especially when conducted on a large...
Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments
Alexander Dobrinevski and Raphaël Jachnik
17 Mar 2020
This paper presents results from a first pilot study to measure the consistency of real economy investments with climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing industries...
Exploring options to measure the climate consistency of real economy investments
Alexander Dobrinevski and Raphaël Jachnik
20 May 2020
Mitigating climate change requires aligning real economy investments with climate objectives. This pilot study measures the climate consistency of investments in transport infrastructure and vehicles in Latvia between 2008 and 2018, estimated at EUR...
Exploring the Effect of Urban Structure on Individual Well-Being
Zachary S. Brown, Walid Oueslati and Jérôme Silva
03 Dec 2015
Building on the OECD’s Better Life Initiative and new work using geospatial analysis, this paper investigates how reported life satisfaction relates to some of the urban structure indicators. To this end, it merges OECD household survey data with...
Exploring the impact of shared mobility services on CO2
Ioannis Tikoudis, Luis Martinez, Katherine Farrow, Clara García Bouyssou, Olga Petrik and Walid Oueslati
04 May 2021
Policy action to avoid the impending societal costs of climate change is particularly warranted in transport sector, which is responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in OECD countries. To design appropriate interventions in this sector,...
Exploring the relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources
Walid Oueslati, Vera Zipperer, Damien Rousselière and Alexandros Dimitropoulos
01 Mar 2016
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the macroeconomic relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs between countries which have...
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Impact of Online Sales
Mark Hilton, Chris Sherrington, Andrew McCarthy and Peter Börkey
23 Jan 2019
Extended producer responsibility or product stewardship is a policy approach that aims to increase waste recovery and recycling. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems aim to make producers responsible for the environmental impacts of their...
Financing cost impacts on cost competitiveness of green hydrogen in emerging and developing economies
Moongyung Lee and Deger Saygin
29 Nov 2023
Green hydrogen, produced from water and renewable power through the electrolysis process, can play a crucial role in the low-carbon transition to achieve the net-zero emission targets. Currently, the production cost of green hydrogen is not...
Financing solutions to foster industrial decarbonisation in emerging and developing economies
Joseph Cordonnier and Deger Saygin
29 Nov 2023
Industry decarbonisation is a cornerstone to reach net-zero emissions by this mid-century. The diversity of industrial activities, processes and products, the complexity of global industrial value chains, and the international competition make...
Financing water security for sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific
Hannah Leckie, Harry Smythe and Xavier Leflaive
26 Mar 2021
The Asia Water Development Outlook – a flagship publication by the Asian Development Bank - monitors progress in water security in the Asia Pacific region. For the first time, the 2020 edition documents financing flows that contribute to – or that...
Firm Surveys relating Environmental Policies, Environmental Performance and Innovation
Massimiliano Mazzanti, Davide Antonioli, Claudia Ghisetti and Francesco Nicolli
12 Apr 2016
This report provides a review of recent firm-level and plant-level surveys containing questions on environmental policies, innovation practices or performance which are relevant for environmental policy analysis and assessment. We specifically focus...
Flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations
Nils Axel Braathen
16 Aug 2019
Based on an in-depth literature review and responses to a survey among OECD member countries, this paper discusses the use of flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations. Such mechanisms can provide flexibility as to how a given environmental...
Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai
Stéphane Hallegatte, Nicola Ranger, Sumana Bhattacharya, Murthy Bachu, Satya Priya, K. Dhore, Farhat Rafique, P. Mathur, Nicolas Naville, Fanny Henriet, Anand Patwardhan, K. Narayanan, Subimal Ghosh, Subhankar Karmakar, Unmesh Patnaik, Abhijat Abhayankar, Sanjib Pohit, Jan Corfee-Morlot and Celine Herweijer
22 Nov 2010
Managing risks from extreme events will be a crucial component of climate change adaptation. In this study, we demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application to flood...
GHG Emission Trends and Targets (GETT)
Rodrigo Pizarro, Santaro Sakata, Miguel Cárdenas Rodríguez, Abenezer Zeleke Aklilu and Ekaterina Ghosh
15 Mar 2024
The Paris Agreement maps out a path for internationally coordinated efforts to curb global warming. At the centre of the Paris Agreement are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that establish countries’ plans to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Green Transformation of Small Businesses
Eugene Mazur
20 Sept 2012
This report aims to help environmental and other competent authorities in OECD countries to promote green business practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It analyses different ways to establish environmental regulatory...
Green hydrogen opportunities for emerging and developing economies
Joseph Cordonnier and Deger Saygin
09 Nov 2022
Hydrogen is a cross-cutting energy vector that can help to decarbonise various end-use sectors. At least two-thirds of the global hydrogen production is projected to be green hydrogen by 2050, supporting the transition to a net-zero emissions global...
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...