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Major Challenges for Fishery Policy Reform: A Political Economy Perspective

12-Sep-2008

This paper discusses the present challenges of fisheries by utilising political economy as an analytic tool to examine some of the potential threats to successful fisheries governance and management.

Environmental performance of agriculture in OECD countries since 1990

16-Jun-2008

This is the fourth volume of the OECD series Environmental Indicators  for Agriculture.

Environmentally Related Taxes and Tradable Permit Systems in Practice

11-Jun-2008

When they are applied in a practical setting, environmentally related taxes and tradable permit systems often differ from simple text-book recommendations that only focus on economic efficiency. This note, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith of University College, London, contains both a theoretical discussion of “real-world” constraints on policy formulation, and an empirical discussion of the Climate Change Levy vs. the domestic greenhouse gas trading system in the UK, as well as of the Landfill tax vs. the Landfill allowance trading system applied in the same country.

Tackling corporate corruption with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

10-Jun-2008

As ongoing corporate bribery investigations and scandals make headlines around the world, Transparency International (TI) has published a working paper on the OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, a set of social, labour, environmental and anti-corruption standards for transnational companies. This working paper explains the Guidelines and their relevance in fighting corruption in the private sector. Case studies illustrate recent instances when civil society has filed complaints in different countries related to bribery and other violations.

Inventory of policy measures addressing environmental issues in agriculture

15-Apr-2008

For a selected country you have direct access to the following documents:
- Contextual information,
- Inventory: WORD document with the description of all the measures included in the inventory,
- Tables: Information on payments and other information linked with the policies included in the inventory.
Access to the inventory is also available through a search database (search by country, by type of measure and by environmental objective), which is currently under reconstruction and will be available again by the end of 2009.

Workshop on Incentives to Capture the Biodiversity and Carbon Benefits for Reducing Deforestation, 26 March 2008

01-Apr-2008

On March 26 2008, a Workshop on “Incentives to Capture the Biodiversity and Carbon Benefits for Reducing Deforestation: Linkages, Synergies and Limitations” was held in Paris...

Cohérence des politiques en matière de développement dans le secteur des pêches en Afrique de l'Ouest

21-Mar-2008

Cette publication fournit un cadre analytique adapté au contexte local, basé sur des faits et des réalités du terrain, dans le but d'améliorer la cohérence des politiques des pêches à la fois sur le plan national et régional.

Fishing for coherence in West Africa: Policy coherence in the Fisheries Sector in Seven West African Countries

20-Mar-2008

This publication provides an analytical framework adapted to the West African context, as well as an action framework based on the facts and realities in the field in order to improve the coherence of fisheries policies in West Africa.

Environmentally Harmful Subsidies in the Transport Sector

13-Mar-2008

This report discusses environmentally harmful subsidies in the transport sector, with the aim of helping policy-makers better understand the broad literature available on this issue.




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