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Globalization and the environment : risk assessment and the WTO
Kellow, Aynsley John (contributor);  … - 2001
One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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Environmental Risks and Insurance : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Insurance in the Management of Environment-Related Risks
2003
catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …
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Regulatory approaches in OECD countries
1999
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Intergovernmental Transfers for Environmental Infrastructure : Lessons from Armenia, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
2006
This report draws on three detailed case studies from Armenia, the Russian Federation and Turkey and on the experience of OECD countries to provide guidance on how transfers from central budgets to local authorities could be designed to finance environmental infrastructures in transition...
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Measuring green finance flows in Kazakhstan
OECD - 2020
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Local Capital Markets for Environmental Infrastructure : Prospects in China, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Ukraine
2006
Transition and emerging economies have difficulties developing their financial markets to a level that would provide access to long-term debt finance at an affordable cost. This report examines opportunities beyond the public sector for financing water and other environmental infrastructure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012448643
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Environmental Requirements for Industrial Permitting : Vol 1 - Approaches and Instruments -- Vol 2 - OECD Workshop on the Use of Best Available Technologies and Environmental Quali...
1999
Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also favoured pollution prevention. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012448695