Environmental Policy, Tools and Evaluation

The successful integration of environmental policies with sectoral and other economic policies is vital to ensuring that environmental policy goals are reached at least cost and that the effects of other policy measures on the environment are addressed.

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Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport Policies

02-Feb-2012

This new publication presents a major meta-analysis of 'value of a statistical life' (VSL) estimates derived from surveys where people around the world have been asked about their willingness to pay for small reduction in mortality risks, and gives guidance on how such estimates could be used in policy assessments.

Greening Development: Enhancing Capacity for Environmental Management and Governance

30-Jan-2012

This policy guidance outlines a number of steps to be considered when building capacity for greening national development planning, national budgetary processes and key economic sector strategies.

Tax & Environment: Reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment

04-Oct-2011

Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.

Taxation, Innovation and the Environment

12-Sep-2011

The OECD recently analysed the impacts of environmentally related taxes and similar instruments on innovation activity in firms and households. The key findings from this analysis are presented in this brief.

Environmental Taxation

12-Sep-2011

The OECD recently issued the book Taxation, Innovation and the Environment. This brief presents a guide for policy makers to environmental taxation that was included in that book.

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