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No. 2010/01 | 01 Sept 2010 |
Greener and Smarter
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are a key enabler of “green growth” in all sectors of the economy. They are a key part of government strategies for a sustainable economic recovery. This report looks at how ICTs can improve their own... |
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No. 2011/01 | 01 Mar 2011 |
Environmental Claims
The Committee on Consumer Policy launched a project to examine ways to enhance the value and effectiveness of green claims in April 2009. In support of the work, a workshop with representatives from government, business and civil society was held in... |
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No. 2011/02 | 01 Jun 2011 |
Interactions Between Emission Trading Systems and Other Overlapping Policy Instruments
Well designed emission trading systems are environmentally effective and economically efficient instruments to address emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. This paper discusses interactions that can occur when a cap-and-trade based emission... |
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No. 2012/01 | 01 Jun 2012 |
The Jobs Potential of a Shift Towards a Low-Carbon Economy
The greening of the labour market will create new opportunities for workers, but also new risks that could undermine political support for green growth policies. Accordingly, labour market and skills policy should also seek to maximise the benefits... |
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No. 2012/02 | 01 Jul 2012 |
Green Growth and Environmental Governance in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
The report takes stock of the latest developments in the overall economic and social conditions in EECCA countries, market signals and environmental governance arrangements that may facilitate the shift towards green growth, and discusses possible... |
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No. 2012/03 | 01 Sept 2012 |
Market Development for Green Cars
This report presents and analyses policies, programmes and approaches for the development, market introduction and diffusion of green cars. It reviews government policies in a number of OECD countries as well as a selection of non-OECD economies. The... |
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No. 2013/01 | 26 Feb 2013 |
Why New Business Models Matter for Green Growth
New business models can make an important contribution to the transition to green growth. While some new business models involve large firms, others are small start-up firms that seek to exploit technological or commercial opportunities that have... |
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No. 2013/02 | 27 Mar 2013 |
What Have We Learned from Attempts to Introduce Green-Growth Policies?
Long-term projections suggest that without policy changes, the continuation of business-as-usual economic growth and development will have serious impacts on natural resources and the ecosystem services on which human well-being depends. This... |
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No. 2013/06 | 11 Apr 2013 |
Private Sector Initiatives on Measuring and Reporting on Green Growth
Green growth gains momentum, not only for governments but for companies as well. They see increasingly the opportunities that come along with ‘green growth’ as well as the relevance of mitigating environmental and social risks to which they are... |
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No. 2013/03 | 11 Apr 2013 |
Building Green Global Value Chains
In this paper we explore why and how the private sector is working in partnerships with the public sector on building green global value chains. The findings and insights are based on the experiences of the companies associated in the Dutch... |
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No. 2013/05 | 06 May 2013 |
Greening Global Value Chains: Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of the main policy issues and key research gaps1. A special emphasis... |
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No. 2013/04 | 06 May 2013 |
Greening Global Value Chains: Implementation Challenges
The objective of this paper is to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains (GVCs). Special attention is given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other... |
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No. 2013/07 | 05 Jun 2013 |
Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Ethiopia
Ethiopian society, economy and environment are so intimately interlinked that systematic attention is essential if clashes are to be resolved and synergies realised. For example, the majority of poor people are principally dependent on agriculture... |
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No. 2013/08 | 12 Aug 2013 |
Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Cambodia
Developing countries have collectively displayed relatively high growth rates in the last decade. Although large disparities still persist in standards of living, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2% between 2000 and 2008,... |
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No. 2013/09 | 26 Nov 2013 |
Improving the Effectiveness of Green Local Development
This report presents a snapshot of the global renewable energy industry and investigates what this global industry can mean for local development. This industry is rapidly growing in response to countries’ activities to reduce their carbon emissions.... |
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No. 2013/10 | 03 Dec 2013 |
Greener Skills and Jobs for a Low-Carbon Future
Green skills, that is, skills needed in a low-carbon economy, will be required in all sectors and at all levels in the workforce as emerging economic activities create new (or renewed) occupations. Structural changes will realign sectors that are... |
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No. 2014/02 | 21 Aug 2014 |
Estimating Shadow Prices of Pollution in Selected OECD Countries
Now that pollution is reaching worrisome levels in some countries and at the global level, there is a growing consensus that it needs to be explicitly considered as a by-product of the production process and incorporated in economic decisions. But... |
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No. 2014/01 | 21 Aug 2014 |
Adjusting Productivity for Pollution in Selected Asian Economies
Multifactor productivity (MFP) is increasingly used in economic policy, not least to compute potential output. Most measures are based on a standard production function combining labour and capital, but do not incorporate the negative by-products of... |
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No. 2014/03 | 23 Dec 2014 |
Green Development Co-Operation in Zambia
Embracing green growth can secure strong, stable and sustainable development. Green growth recognises and integrates the value of natural capital into economic decision-making and development planning, which is critical to avoid natural capital... |
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No. 2015/01 | 23 Feb 2015 |
Land Transport and How to Unlock Investment in Support of “Green Growth”
“Green growth” and transport combines several different concepts that are central to sustainable mobility, including sustainable economic activity, reduced environmental impact and sustained growth in high quality jobs. It attempts to balance the... |
OECD Green Growth Papers
English
- ISSN: 22260935 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22260935
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Greener and Smarter
Arthur Mickoleit
01 Sept 2010
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are a key enabler of “green growth” in all sectors of the economy. They are a key part of government strategies for a sustainable economic recovery. This report looks at how ICTs can improve their own...
Environmental Claims
OECD
01 Mar 2011
The Committee on Consumer Policy launched a project to examine ways to enhance the value and effectiveness of green claims in April 2009. In support of the work, a workshop with representatives from government, business and civil society was held in...
Interactions Between Emission Trading Systems and Other Overlapping Policy Instruments
Nils Axel Braathen
01 Jun 2011
Well designed emission trading systems are environmentally effective and economically efficient instruments to address emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. This paper discusses interactions that can occur when a cap-and-trade based emission...
The Jobs Potential of a Shift Towards a Low-Carbon Economy
OECD
01 Jun 2012
The greening of the labour market will create new opportunities for workers, but also new risks that could undermine political support for green growth policies. Accordingly, labour market and skills policy should also seek to maximise the benefits...
Green Growth and Environmental Governance in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
OECD
01 Jul 2012
The report takes stock of the latest developments in the overall economic and social conditions in EECCA countries, market signals and environmental governance arrangements that may facilitate the shift towards green growth, and discusses possible...
Market Development for Green Cars
Andrea Beltramello
01 Sept 2012
This report presents and analyses policies, programmes and approaches for the development, market introduction and diffusion of green cars. It reviews government policies in a number of OECD countries as well as a selection of non-OECD economies. The...
Why New Business Models Matter for Green Growth
Andrea Beltramello, Linda Haie-Fayle and Dirk Pilat
26 Feb 2013
New business models can make an important contribution to the transition to green growth. While some new business models involve large firms, others are small start-up firms that seek to exploit technological or commercial opportunities that have...
Long-term projections suggest that without policy changes, the continuation of business-as-usual economic growth and development will have serious impacts on natural resources and the ecosystem services on which human well-being depends. This...
Private Sector Initiatives on Measuring and Reporting on Green Growth
Nancy Kamp-Roelands
11 Apr 2013
Green growth gains momentum, not only for governments but for companies as well. They see increasingly the opportunities that come along with ‘green growth’ as well as the relevance of mitigating environmental and social risks to which they are...
Building Green Global Value Chains
OECD
11 Apr 2013
In this paper we explore why and how the private sector is working in partnerships with the public sector on building green global value chains. The findings and insights are based on the experiences of the companies associated in the Dutch...
Greening Global Value Chains: Innovation and the International Diffusion of Technologies and Knowledge
Matthieu Glachant
06 May 2013
The objective of the paper is to lay out the state of knowledge on the role of innovation and the diffusion of technologies in the greening of global value chains as well as some of the main policy issues and key research gaps1. A special emphasis...
Greening Global Value Chains: Implementation Challenges
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
06 May 2013
The objective of this paper is to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains (GVCs). Special attention is given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other...
Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Ethiopia
Steve Bass, Shannon Siyao Wang, Tadele Ferede and Daniel Fikreyesus
05 Jun 2013
Ethiopian society, economy and environment are so intimately interlinked that systematic attention is essential if clashes are to be resolved and synergies realised. For example, the majority of poor people are principally dependent on agriculture...
Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Cambodia
Essam Yassin Mohammed, Shannon Wang and Gary Kawaguchi
12 Aug 2013
Developing countries have collectively displayed relatively high growth rates in the last decade. Although large disparities still persist in standards of living, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2% between 2000 and 2008,...
Improving the Effectiveness of Green Local Development
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez, Samantha Sharpe, Merritt Hughes and Carmen Avellaner de Santos
26 Nov 2013
This report presents a snapshot of the global renewable energy industry and investigates what this global industry can mean for local development. This industry is rapidly growing in response to countries’ activities to reduce their carbon emissions....
Greener Skills and Jobs for a Low-Carbon Future
OECD
03 Dec 2013
Green skills, that is, skills needed in a low-carbon economy, will be required in all sectors and at all levels in the workforce as emerging economic activities create new (or renewed) occupations. Structural changes will realign sectors that are...
Estimating Shadow Prices of Pollution in Selected OECD Countries
Thai-Thanh Dang and Annabelle Mourougane
21 Aug 2014
Now that pollution is reaching worrisome levels in some countries and at the global level, there is a growing consensus that it needs to be explicitly considered as a by-product of the production process and incorporated in economic decisions. But...
Adjusting Productivity for Pollution in Selected Asian Economies
Thai-Thanh Dang and Annabelle Mourougane
21 Aug 2014
Multifactor productivity (MFP) is increasingly used in economic policy, not least to compute potential output. Most measures are based on a standard production function combining labour and capital, but do not incorporate the negative by-products of...
Green Development Co-Operation in Zambia
Juan Casado Asensio, Shannon Wang, Katlego Moilwa and Anna Drutschinin
23 Dec 2014
Embracing green growth can secure strong, stable and sustainable development. Green growth recognises and integrates the value of natural capital into economic decision-making and development planning, which is critical to avoid natural capital...
Land Transport and How to Unlock Investment in Support of “Green Growth”
David Banister, Philippe Crist and Stephen Perkins
23 Feb 2015
“Green growth” and transport combines several different concepts that are central to sustainable mobility, including sustainable economic activity, reduced environmental impact and sustained growth in high quality jobs. It attempts to balance the...