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Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport: The Case of Land-Based Passenger Transport Infrastructure

Ang, Géraldine; Marchal, Virginie - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2013

Transport infrastructure is a pillar of economic development and a key contributor to climate change. Globally, transport-related greenhouse gas emissions are expected to double by 2050 in the absence of new policies. There is an urgent need to scale-up and shift transport infrastructure...

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Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts: Conceptual Frameworks, Modelling Approaches and Research Needs

Wing, Ian Sue; Lanzi, Elisa - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014

This paper presents a framework to include feedbacks from climate impacts on the economy in integrated assessment models. The proposed framework uses a production function approach, which links climate impacts to key variables and parameters used in the specification of economic activity. The...

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Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models

Agrawala, Shardul; Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010

Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important from an agenda setting perspective, many of these estimates nevertheless have a number of...

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Flood Risks, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Benefits in Mumbai: An Initial Assessment of Socio-Economic Consequences of Present and Climate Change Induced Flood Risks and of...

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny; Patwardhan, Anand; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010

to flood risk in Mumbai. In 2005, Mumbai experienced unprecedented flooding, causing direct economic damages estimated at … limited share of total losses but a large shock for poor households. The analysis also demonstrates that adaptation could … associated with a 1-in-100 year flood event today could be reduced by as much as 70%. We show that assessing the indirect costs …

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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale: A Conceptual Framework

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008

Climate change has become a priority issue in global environmental governance and cities are important players. For over three decades, the OECD has been actively supporting member and non-member countries to design environmental policies that are both economically efficient and effective at...

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Assessing Climate Change Impacts, Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Risk in Port Cities: A Case Study on Copenhagen

Hallegatte, Stéphane; Patmore, Nicola; Mestre, Olivier; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008

, amongst other loses – deduced, allowing a risk analysis of the effectiveness of coastal flood protections, including risk …

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Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes: Exposure Estimates

Nicholls, R. J.; Hanson, S.; Herweijer, Celine; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008

coastal flood event. For present-day conditions (2005), the top ten cities in terms of exposed population are estimated to be …

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Public Financial Institutions and the Low-carbon Transition: Five Case Studies on Low-Carbon Infrastructure and Project Investment

Cochran, Ian; Hubert, Romain; Marchal, Virginie; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014

Public financial institutions (PFIs) are well-positioned to act as a key leverage point for governments’ efforts to mobilise private investment in low-carbon projects and infrastructure. The study identifies the tools, instruments and approaches used by five PFIs to directly support and...

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Towards a Green Investment Policy Framework: The Case of Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Marchal, Virginie; Kauffmann, Céline; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012

Achieving low-carbon, climate-resilient (LCR) development is a policy goal of many governments today, and investment in built-infrastructure – in the energy, transport, water and building sectors – is a central part of the challenge. In the face of growing infrastructure needs and fiscal...

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Greening Household Behaviour: Cross-domain Comparisons in Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours Using Spatial Effects

Brown, Zachary - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014

Discussions of the importance of public attitudes in shaping policy often lack clear evidence on causal relations between stated attitudes and observed behaviours. The 2011 OECD Survey of over 12,000 households allows analysing households’ environmental attitudes and behaviours in five...

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