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Action Against Climate Change : The Kyoto Protocol and Beyond

1999

Climate change is an increasing concern across the world. In 1997, a number of countries, including most OECD countries, agreed the Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for future emissions of greenhouse gases that drive climate change. But the Kyoto Protocol left many decisions to be made, and...

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Environmental policy instruments

OECD - 20XX

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Harnessing Markets for Biodiversity : Towards Conservation and Sustainable Use

2003

Governments and private sector actors are increasingly recognising the potential of harnessing markets to help arrest the degradation of biodiversity. The private provision of biodiversity products and services is proving to be quite feasible in some circumstances

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Sustainable Development : Critical Issues

2001

to reach sustainability goals in a cost-effective way. The report also provides an in-depth analysis of policies designed … to address key threats to sustainability in the areas of climate change and natural resource management, as well as of … those that respond to sustainability concerns at the sectoral and sub-national level. The common thrust of the report is …

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International Science and Technology Co-operation : Towards Sustainable Development

2001

Achieving sustainable development goals at a global level will strongly depend on the rapid technological development and innovation, and the widespread diffusion and application, of cleaner technologies in non-OECD as well as OECD countries. But do the developing countries have the capacity and...

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Sustainable Development : Critical Issues

2001

How can we meet the needs of today without diminishing the capacity of future generations to meet theirs? This is the central question posed by "sustainable development". OECD countries committed themselves to sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in...

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Policies to Enhance Sustainable Development

2001

management -- where the risks of non-sustainability appear to be highest. …

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Eco-Efficiency

2008

This report evaluates strategies to improve the efficiency with which environmental resources are used to meet human needs. Many firms in OECD countries have developed strategies that involve:- developing goals to reduce resource use and pollutant release while improving customer service;- working...

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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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Innovation and the Environment

2000

How can innovation and technology better contribute to environmental sustainability? What factors drive firms to …" policies that can stimulate innovation for the environment and shift our development path towards sustainability. …

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