Policy Brief: Taxation, Innovation and the Environment

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 policy brief.

Policy Brief: Environmentally Related Taxation

This policy brief presents a guide for policy makers to environmentally related taxation that is included in the OECD Publication "Taxation, Innovation and the Environement".

The Value of Statistical Life: A meta-analysis

This paper presents a number of meta-analyses of the value of a statistical life in stated preferences surveys, and is an input to a technical report and a user's guide for policy makers on the use of VSL values in policy assessments that is being prepared.

Meta-analysis of stated preference VSL studies: Further model sensitivity and benefit transfer issues

This paper gives a technical description of meta-analyses that have been made of estimates of the value of a statistical life in stated preferences surveys, and is an input to a user's guide for policy makers on the use of VSL values in policy assessments that is being prepared.

Closing the Gap on Climate Finance

To mark the final report of the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF), OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría wrote an op-ed entitled “Closing the Gap on Climate Finance” for Danish business newspaper Børsen on 7th November 2010.

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Database on instruments used for environmental policy

This is the homepage of the OECD/EEA database on economic instruments and voluntary approaches used in environmental policy and natural resources management.

Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children

Is the value of reducing environment-related health risks greater for children than for adults? A research project involving leading research teams has sought to answer this question through the implementation of surveys of parents in three OECD countries.

Taxation, Innovation and the Environment

By putting a price on pollution, do environmentally related taxes spur innovation? What types of innovation result? Does the design of the tax play a critical role? What is the effect of this innovation? This publication also explores the use of environmentally related taxes in OECD countries.&l

Recent OECD Work on Transport and Environment Issues - Flyer

In addition to the work on Globalisation, Transport and the Environment (see www.oecd.org/env/transport/globalisation), OECD has in recent years issued a number of other documents on transport and environment.

OECD hosted a preparatory meeting for the 2011 global conference of environmental enforcement practitioners and their partners

On 11-12 October, the OECD Environment Directorate hosted a meeting of the governing body of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE).