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17-Mar-2010
A paper focusing 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 has just been issued. It describes the trends in innovative activity related to selected areas of pollution abatement and control technologies and their transfer internationally.
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16-Mar-2010
In his opening remarks for the book launch for the Horizontal Water Programme, Mr. Gurría underlined that good water management is important for a stronger, cleaner and fairer economy.
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09-Mar-2010
This review of recent policy-relevant findings from the environmental health literature was prepared by Alistair Hunt and Julia Ferguson, University of Bath, UK. The focus of the paper is on environmentally related morbidity impacts – not on mortality impacts.
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01-Mar-2010
This case study describes the environmental practices that were being carried out in late 2009 at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), sometimes referred to collectively as the San Pedro Bay ports. The importance of the two ports to U.S. and world trade derives primarily from the container cargo volumes they handle.
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01-Mar-2010
As part of the project “Environmental Impacts of International Shipping: the role of ports”, this case study focuses on the way the port of Rotterdam and the Dutch authorities address the environmental impacts of the port and its interactions with the hinterlands.
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24-Feb-2010
Water is vital for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. Poor governance and inadequate investment, however, are resulting in large populations not having access to the water services they need.
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19-Feb-2010
This paper was prepared by Lena Höglund Isaksson of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, and Thomas Sterner of the Department of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden, as an input to the project on Taxation, Innovation and the Environment of OECD’s Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts.
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15-Feb-2010
Getting the tax treatment of tradable permits “right” is important not only for achieving environmental objectives, but also for the integrity of tax systems. The OECD has issued a flyer describing the work the Organisation is currently doing on this issue.
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15-Feb-2010
Increased use of bicycles can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution - and have positive impacts on human health.
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15-Feb-2010
Solving the world’s environmental problems could take a significant toll on economic growth if only today’s technologies are available. Innovation – the creation and adoption of new, cleaner technologies and know-how – provides a means to achieve local and global environmental goals at significantly lower costs. This new flyer describes work OECD is currently doing on the innovation impacts of environmentally related taxes and similar policy instruments. Many of the case studies of the project are available at www.oecd.org/env/taxes.
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