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destroying biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing significant but often overlooked risks to the economy, the financial … G7 and other countries in four key areas: measuring and mainstreaming biodiversity; aligning budgetary and fiscal policy … with biodiversity; embedding biodiversity in the financial sector; and improving biodiversity outcomes linked to …
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target policy objectives, including for biodiversity. The paper outline the process involved in designing and implementing … the 2017 OECD report The Political Economy of Biodiversity Policy Reform. …
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Although measurements of biodiversity-related financial risks are in their infancy, several metrics and indicators are … biodiversity risks into financial risks. This mapping paper provides a comprehensive catalogue and literature review of existing …, financial supervisors, and financial market participants to measure biodiversity-related financial risks. …
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Implementing an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework will demand ambitious and widespread use of … biodiversity policy instruments, and other measures, to promote sustainable patterns of production and consumption. It will also … require governments and the private sector to scale up biodiversity finance and reduce finance flows that harm biodiversity …
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Strengthening linkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation policies can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of actions in support of a low-carbon, climate-resilient economic development. This policy paper provides an overview and a discussion of linkages, shedding light on the...
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management and biodiversity conservation. This includes measures such as introduction of automatic indexation of environmentally …
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The international community has agreed to limit the average global temperature increase to no more than 2ºC above pre-industrial levels. This will require a gradual phase-out of fossil fuel emissions by the second half of this century. This report brings together lessons learned from OECD...
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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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In recent decades, Israel’s growing population and rising incomes have seen consumption increase substantially, bringing with it considerable pressure on the environment. One of the main environmental pressures is from the ever-increasing transport activity, especially the use of private...
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The use of materials globally has increased over the past century and it will continue to grow with sustained population and economic growth. Such growth also leads to increased environmental pressures, including climate change. While the Slovak Republic has made notable progress in decoupling...
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