Pour relever les nombreux défis environnementaux auxquels nous sommes confrontés aujourd'hui, comme par exemple le changement climatique, les pays s'efforcent de développer des instruments de gestion de l’environnement efficaces et efficients au niveau national. Les permis...

Competition for foreign direct investment has been neglected as a subject of research. Yet many claim that such competition is having deleterious effects, such as lowering governments’ standards of protection of the environment and workers’ rights.This book looks at the evidence and assesses...

Climate change is one of the key challenges facing the international community. The world’s industrial countries and those with economies in transition have, under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, collectively agreed sharp limitations of their greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative provisions in this...

L’amélioration de la performance environnementale de l’agriculture est une priorité dans les pays de l’OCDE et dans de nombreux pays non membres de l’OCDE. Elle sera une préoccupation croissante à l’avenir étant donné les pressions qui s’exerceront pour nourrir une population...

Green budget tagging can be a useful tool in an overall approach to green budgeting. This introductory guidance was developed by the OECD under the Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting in collaboration with institutional partners working under Helsinki Principle 4 of the Coalition of Finance...

Voluntary approaches are schemes whereby firms make commitments to improve their environmental performance.They cover arrangements such as public voluntary programmes, negotiated agreements or unilateral commitments. Until recently, voluntary approaches have not been subject to systematic...