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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and Project-based Mechanisms

2004

Greenhouse gas emissions trading and project-based mechanisms for greenhouse gas reduction are emerging market-based instruments for climate change policy. They are also increasingly viewed as cost-effective, flexible and environmentally efficient instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

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Strengthening adaptation-mitigation linkages for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future

OECD - 2021

reflections of fostering linkages, especially as part of countries’ ongoing discussions on designing green recovery measures in …

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National Climate Policies and the Kyoto Protocol

1999

and integrated policies, using a wide range of economic instruments (green taxes, green tax reform and domestic emission …

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CO2 Capture and Storage: A Key Carbon Abatement Option

2008

Oil, coal and natural gas will remain the world’s dominant sources of energy over the next decades, with resulting carbon dioxide emissions set to increase to unsustainable levels. However, technologies that help reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels can reverse this trend. CO2 capture and...

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Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Future

2004

Analysing the interaction between energy and climate change mitigation issues requires the adoption of a long-term perspective – looking up to fifty years ahead. This volume examines ‘exploratory scenarios’ and ‘normative scenarios’. These long-term scenarios complement the IEA’s...

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Tracking Industrial Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions

2007

Tracking Industrial Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions responds to a G8 request. This major new analysis shows how industrial energy efficiency has improved dramatically over the last 25 years. Yet important opportunities for additional gains remain, which is evident when the efficiencies of...

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Transport Energy and CO2 : Moving towards Sustainability

2009

Car ownership is set to triple by 2050, trucking activity will double and air travel could increase fourfold. This book examines how to enable mobility without accelerating climate change. It finds that if we change the way we travel, adopt technologies to improve vehicle efficiency and shift to...

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Environmental Policy, Technological Innovation and Patents

2008

This report presents three case studies to illustrate the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation. The case studies cover abatement technologies for wastewater effluent from pulp production, abatement of motor vehicle emissions, and development of renewable energy...

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Taxation, Innovation and the Environment

2010

innovation is critical to understanding the full impacts of this policy instrument as well as one potential facet of “green … environmentally related taxes in OECD countries and outlines considerations for policymakers when implementing these taxes. Green … natural resource use. The results from this publication will contribute to the Green Growth Strategy being developed by the …

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The Swedish tax on nitrogen oxide emissions : lessons in environmental policy reform

OECD - 2013

Sweden was facing a serious soil acidification and water eutrophication problem caused partly by emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from combustion processes in transport, industry and power. In 1992, Sweden introduced a high tax on NOx emissions from large combustion sources (e.g. power plants,...

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