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Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards A Common Reference Framework - Environment Working Paper No. 8
The paper provides a synthesis of major elements and approaches of institutional assessment that may be applied to environmental management, and provides an inventory of core functions for environmental management.
Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-Year Budgetary Frameworks - Environment Working Paper No. 7
This study analyses how multi-year budgetary processes work in practice in both high income OECD countries and in aid-receiving countries, with a view to identifying the opportunities for, and limits to, financing environmental management. It also provides suggestions to the donor community on how to make better use of multi-year budgeting.
Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Integrated Assessment Modelling of Adaptation Costs and Benefits - Environment Working Paper No. 6
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions need to move hand in hand with policies and incentives to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. Adaptation cost curves are estimated for the world, as well as for specific regions. The policy simulations presented in this report show that the costs of inaction are high, and thus it is important to start acting on both mitigation and adaptation now.
Greening Development Planning: A Review of Country Case Studies for Making the Economic Case for Improved Management of Environment and Natural Resources - Environment Working Paper No. 5
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 tourism) are identified as the engines of economic growth. However, a majority of the ecosystems on which human well-being depends are being degraded. The difficulties in providing economic and policy-relevant information about sustainable economic management of natural capital are often seen as an important reason for inadequate integration of the environment in macroeconomic and sector polices.
The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale: A Conceptual Framework - Environment Working Paper No. 4
Cities concentrate many activities, people and wealth in limited areas and as a result they are particularly vulnerable to climate change and climate extremes. This paper provides a conceptual backdrop for urban economic impact assessment of climate change and its specific aim is to provide both a conceptual and a methodological framework for OECD work in this area. The underlying assumption of the work is that understanding and estimating local vulnerability will assist decision-makers to manage vulnerability to climate change.
Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Risk in Port Cities: A Case Study on Copenhagen - Environment Working Paper No. 3
Climate change is raising sea levels and increasing the height of storm surge in coastal zones increasing flood risk in port cities around the world. Copenhagen, thanks to its location, is not highly vulnerable to storm surges and coastal floods. Man-made defenses, however, are necessary: without them, the economic losses caused by the current 10 yr storm surge event, i.e. the surge that has a 1-out-of-10 chance of occurring every year, would reach EUR 2.5 billion.
The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution - Environment Working Paper No. 2
How much does the environment affect human health? Is air pollution shortening our lives and those of our children? These questions are fundamental to environmental policies. Air pollution is a major environmental health threat in OECD countries, contributing to a number of illnesses, such as asthma, cancer and premature deaths. Despite national and international interventions and decreases in major emissions, the health impacts of air pollution are not likely to decrease in the years ahead, unless appropriate action is taken. This report presents estimates of the costs and benefits of environmental policies aiming at reducing air pollution and provides policy recommendations in order to better address environmental health issues.
Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes: Exposure Estimates - Environment Working Paper No. 1
The impact of climate change and urban development could more than triple the number of people around the world exposed to coastal flooding by 2070, according to a new report by the OECD, co-authored by experts from academia and the private sector.
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