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Mobilising Investment in Low Carbon, Climate Resilient Infrastructure
Kennedy, Christopher; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012
investment in LCR infrastructure by improving the risk-return profile of projects. The paper provides a ranking of the most … services, weak risk management capacity and limited availability of long term funding. Drawing on OECD?s work on the water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276622
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276636
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011007191
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Greening Growth in Japan
Capozza, Ivana - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
A decade of sluggish economic growth, concluding with the sharpest recession since the Second World War, has underlined the need for Japan to develop a new growth model. Such a model should restore public finances and long-term growth while preserving environmental quality and ensuring a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867732
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Sources of Finance, Investment Policies and Plant Entry in the Renewable Energy Sector
Kalamova, Margarita; Kaminker, Christopher; Johnstone, Nick - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
.S.A. and Australia. It examines differing risk/return expectations across stages of the investment continuum (from R&D through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009209696
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Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change: Approaches to Managing Climate Risks
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis; Kingsmill, Nicholas; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
There is growing international interest in the planning, financing and implementation of adaptation to climate change. However, the discussion to date has primarily focused on the public sector’s role, with the private sector viewed primarily as a source of funding or financing. Relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371320
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Cities and Carbon Market Finance: Taking Stock of Cities' Experience With Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI)
Clapp, Christa; Leseur, Alexia; Sartor, Oliver; Briner, … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
local cobenefits; and project financial structure and risk management approaches. This paper also considers how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008726891
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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 … to climate change alone. Continued rapid urbanisation could further increase the risk level. Moreover, a survey on the …-bound climate scenario and is insufficient to design an adaptation strategy, it does demonstrate the value of risk-assessment as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008726892
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Climate Policy and Technological Innovation and Transfer: An Overview of Trends and Recent Empirical Results
Haščič, Ivan; Johnstone, Nick; Watson, Fleur; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives. As such, understanding the linkages between environmental policy and technological innovation in achieving environmental objectives is important. This is particularly true in the area of climate change, where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764879
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An Economic Projection to 2050: The OECD "ENV-Linkages" Model Baseline
Château, Jean; Rebolledo, Cuauhtemoc; Dellink, Rob - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
This document describes economic baseline projections to 2050 for several world regions. It describes how socio-economic drivers are used to create a consistent projection of economic activity for the coming decades, applying the general framework of “conditional convergence”. This economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645226