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Implications of water scarcity for economic growth - Environment Working Paper

Water is linked to many economic activities, and there are complex channels through which water affects economic growth. The purpose of this report is to provide background information useful for a quantitative global assessment of the impact of water scarcity on growth using a multi-region, recursive-dynamic, Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model.

Modélisation économique-environnementale

L’OCDE mène des travaux sur l’économie du changement climatique et les politiques associées depuis la fin des années 1980. Actuellement, ces travaux reposent pour l’essentiel sur ENV-Linkages, un modèle néo-classique récursif dynamique d’équilibre général.

Panorama de l'environnement 2015 - Les indicateurs de l'OCDE

Love where you live, but love it more with cleaner air - Insights Blog

Air pollution is a serious issue in most countries around the world and every year it causes severe damage to human health and the environment. The WHO estimates that ambient air pollution is the greatest environmental risk to health – causing more than 3 million premature deaths worldwide every year.

Approaches and issues in valuing the costs of inaction of air pollution on human health - Environment Working Paper

This paper presents a review of existing approaches to estimate the costs of inaction, as well as the benefits of policy action, for air pollution. It focuses primarily on health impacts from air pollution and presents the "impact pathway approach", which includes various steps in the analysis of the costs of air pollution.

Webinar: Green Growth, Indicators, and the SDGs

Join the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) for a webinar on 20 April from 16:00-17:30 (Geneva time), to debate where and how the way we measure our progress towards an inclusive green economy, including how this relates to the SDGs can be improved.

Green patents

Far-reaching innovation is needed to address climate change and other environmental challenges, and to accelerate the transition to green growth. To measure the output of environmental innovation, the OECD published a new set of green patent indicators.

Understanding and Managing the Unequal Consequences of Environment Pressures and Policies - Insights blog

The consequences of degradation of environmental quality as well as the consequences of environmental policies are typically unevenly distributed. In general, poorer countries and lower income households are more severely affected by environmental degradation and at the same time have less capacity to adapt.

Au-delà du climat: webinaire le 9 décembre

Le 9 Décembre 2015, à la COP21, Myriam Linster, Aldo Ravazzi, Guillaume Sainteny et Simon Upton partiront de graphiques clés de publications de l'OCDE pour replacer le climat dans un contexte environnemental et politique plus large. Le webinaire est accessible à tous en ligne.

Indicateurs environnementaux : profils des pays de l'OCDE

Pour chacun des 34 pays membres de l'OCDE, les profils de pays fournissent une "photo instantanée" dans des domaines politiques clés. Les graphiques intéractifs montrent les indicateurs sur la qualité de l'air, la biodiversité, le changement climatique, les ressources en énergie, des forêts et de l'eau, la production de déchets, la qualité de l'eau et les taxes liées à l'environnement.