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Global climate change is one of the key concerns of the 21st century, with serious implications for economies, societies and the environment. A central challenge is the integration of climate policy objectives into other sectoral policy areas.
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07-Oct-2008
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.
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19-Sep-2008
This paper reviews alternative (national and international) climate change mitigation policy instruments and interactions across them. Carbon taxes, cap-and-trade schemes, standards and technology-support policies (R&D and clean technology deployment) in particular are assessed according to three broad cost-effectiveness criteria.
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on 03-Jul-2008
In his speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Angel Gurría shares a few insights on how the OECD perceives the new era of globalisation and on how the organisation is responding to its multiple challenges. Climate change and the spiral of food prices stand out.
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03-Jun-2008
"Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments", edited by Shardul Agrawala and Samuel Fankhauser. This new book provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It examines the potential and limits of economic and policy instruments - e.g. insurance and risk sharing, environmental markets and pricing, public private partnerships - that can motivate adaptation actions. Friendly url: www.oecd.org/env/cc/ecoadaptation .
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12-Jun-2008
The OECD hosted a side event at the 28th Sessions of the subsidiary bodies to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB-28) in Bonn on June 10th. The theme was the "Economics of Adaptation and Mitigation", and it was organised in two parts: first, the launch of the new book "Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments" ; the second half featured the OECD Environmental Oultook to 2030 and Cities and Climate Change: the case of global port cities. Click on this title to access presentations.
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03-Jun-2008
Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the Opening session of the OECD Forum 2008, OECD International Conference Centre, Paris, 3 June, 2008.
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02-Jun-2008
The OECD’s objective is to help its member countries prepare for the future by supporting them with sound policy analysis and options to achieve climate change goals in an environmentally-effective and economically-efficient manner. A number of projects are underway to implement this across several OECD Directorates and in the specialised agencies associated with the OECD, such as the IEA and the NEA. This document highlights this work.
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20-May-2008
The 2008 Annex I Expert Group seminar with non-Annex I countries took place 5-6 May 2008 in Paris and included 140 participants from 47 delegations. The seminar focussed on four main climate change topics: (i) exploring different mitigation options; (ii) reducing emission from deforestation (REDD) – structuring mechanisms for environmental performance; (iii) how to boost clean technology innovation diffusion and transfer in the near to medium term; and (iv) adaptation in the post-2012 framework.
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05-Mar-2008
"Solutions to the key environmental challenges are available, achievable and affordable, especially when compared to the expected economic growth and the costs and consequences of inaction", OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said at the worldwide launch of the 2008 OECD Environmental Outlook in Oslo, hosted by Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg.
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on 02-Oct-2008
Climate change is confronting us with the fierce urgency of “now”. This seminar will be an opportunity for parliamentarians and legislators to exchange views with their colleagues and OECD experts on the economics of climate change, adaptation to climate change, innovation, technology and climate change, and energy and climate change.
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Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments
