Green growth and taxation

Green growth will require large scale changes in the behaviour of households, business and governments. Taxes and other market-based instruments are key policy instruments for providing clear and sustained incentives to reduce environmental damage.

Summary Enhancing Capacity: A Basis for Greening Development

This is a summary of OECD publication "Greening Development: Enhancing Capacity for Environmental Management and Governance"

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.

Information note for venue Busan, Korea 10-11 June 2010

Information Note for Venue Busan Korea 10-11 June 2010

Ensuring Environmental Compliance: Trends and Good Practices

Despite progress in recent years, there is growing evidence that OECD countries are not on track to reach some of their key environmental goals. This report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and control regulations.

Reducing Fishing Capacity: Best Practices for Decommissioning Schemes

Vessel decommissioning schemes allow governments to adjust fishing capacity to match available fish resources. This report presents best practice guidelines on the design and implementation of such schemes.

Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment: Good Practice Guidance for Development Co-operation

This guidance explains the benefits of using strategic environmental assessment in development co-operation and sets out key steps for its application based on recent experiences.

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Good Practices in the National Sustainable Development Strategies of OECD countries

All countries should have national sustainable development strategies in place, but many still lack strategies and others fall short of good practices in terms of long-term perspectives, integrated government approaches, consultation with stakeholders, realistic targets, etc.

Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction (DAC Guidelines and Reference Series)

This DAC Reference Document outlines key issues faced when designing Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR). EFR refers to a range of taxation and pricing measures which can raise fiscal revenues while furthering environmental goals.

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Issues Paper - Soft MEasures and Transport Behaviour

This paper's focus is on the use of soft measures to change transport behaviour towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST).