Environment and Sustainable Development: Economic Issues

As part of the OECD's structural surveillance mandate, work has focussed on both environmental policies, especially evaluating responses to global warming and sustainable development policies. The latter is ongoing and is dealt with in a cross-country and a country-specific mode.

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Germany: make ambitious climate change policies pay

14-Feb-2012

Implementing cost-effective climate change mitigation policies and fostering eco-innovation would limit the cost of the German ambitious environmental targets and may also contribute developing new sources of growth.

Improving energy system efficiency in the Czech Republic

31-Jan-2012

A carbon intensive energy system in the Czech Republic contributes to one of the highest ratios of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to GDP in the OECD.

Towards green growth in Denmark

26-Jan-2012

Denmark has ambitious energy and climate objectives. Better exploiting interactions with EU and international policies and improving policies to support green technologies would help to achieving them in a cost-effective manner.

Switzerland: Environment and sustainable development

24-Jan-2012

While the level of greenhouse gas emissions is low in Switzerland, meeting emission reduction targets with the existing policies will be difficult. This survey discusses how Switzerland could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a more cost effective way.

Russia: improved energy efficiency would benefit the economy and the environment

12-Dec-2011

Russia has one of the most energy-intensive economies in the world. The high degree of energy intensity, combined with relatively carbon-intensive energy use, results in Russia accounting for a disproportionately large share of global carbon emissions. Moreover, low energy efficiency contributes to poor air quality, and Russia has one of the highest rates of premature mortality attributable to air pollution in the world.

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