Environmental Policies and Instruments

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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Ensuring Environmental Compliance: Trends and Good Practices

15-Jun-2009

This report offers a comprehensive analysis of how governments promote, monitor and enforce compliance with environmental laws and regulations. It compares the environmental compliance assurance systems of six OECD countries – Finland, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States – as well as those of China and Russia. The report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with industrial pollution prevention and control regulations, identifies good practices and highlights the key international trends.

Taxation, Innovation and the Environment - The Spanish Case

06-Feb-2009

This paper discusses the environmental impacts of tax incentives for innovation, and the innovation impacts of tax incentives for environmental expenditures, in the Spanish corporate income tax system.

Environmental Compliance Assurance: Trends and Good Practices - International Conference, OECD Headquarters, Paris, 17-18 November 2008

15-Sep-2008

The conference brought together environmental policy and enforcement officials, as well as industry representatives and non-government experts to exchange experiences on the good practices and trends in environmental compliance assurance in OECD countries and major emerging economies. Conference participants discussed the results of a two-year OECD comparative study of compliance promotion, monitoring, and enforcement instruments in six OECD member countries and two major emerging economies.

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