Climate policy and technological innovation and transfer: an overview of trends and recent empirical results

Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives. As such, understanding the linkages between environmental policy and technological innovation in achieving environmental objectives is important.

Guidance on Sustainability Impact Assessment

This document offers a general introduction to sustainable impact assessment (SIA).

Guidelines for Cost-effective Agri-environmental Policy Measures

A study of the design and implementation of environmental standards and regulations, taxes, payments, tradable permit schemes and other policy measures to address agri-environmental issues.

Climate Change and Agriculture

While agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, it is also a source of carbon storage in soils. Farmers will have to adapt to the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector. This report considers how to design policies that address these issues.

Management Strategy Evaluation and Management Procedures: Tools for Rebuilding and Sustaining Fisheries

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is designed to identify fishery rebuilding and harvest strategies that are robust to uncertainty and natural variation, and that balance biological and socioeconomic objectives.

Workshop on the Economics of Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change

Presentations and information from a workshop on how OECD member countries can develop fisheries strategies to adapt to climate change, Busan, Korea, 10-11 June 2010

Outcome Performance Measures of Environmental Compliance Assurance: Current Practices, Constraints and Ways Forward - Environment Working Paper No. 18

This working paper analyses the current practices of ten OECD countries in the use of quantitative indicators characterising outcomes of activities to ensure compliance with environmental pollution prevention and control regulations.

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• OECD Environment Working Papers

European energy policy and the transition to a low–carbon economy

European energy policy faces a number of interrelated challenges, including making the transition to a low–carbon economy, increasing cross–border competition in electricity and gas markets and diversifying Europe’s energy supply.

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• Economic Survey of the European Union 2009

Proceedings from the Global Forum on Eco-Innovation, OECD, Paris, 4-5 November 2010

The objective of the Global Forum on Environment focused on eco-innovation was to share experience on policy issues related to the development and diffusion of eco-innovation.

Green Economy: Mayors, Ministers Call for Joint Action at OECD Roundtable

The Third Annual Meeting of the OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers on “Cities and Green Growth” concluded that national and city leaders must work together to increase cities’ ability to promote green growth.