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The Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Policy Benefits at City Scale : A Conceptual Framework
Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2008
policy implementation, the OECD helps governments to improve their collective and individual environmental performance … develop a shared understanding of the key policy challenges as well as to assess performance and identify good practice in the … series under the OECD Environment Directorate’s project on Cities and Climate Change. The project aims to explore the city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444537
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Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance
Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Donovan, Michael; … - 2009
Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446346
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Cities, Climate Change and Multilevel Governance
Corfee-Morlot, Jan; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Donovan, Michael G. - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2009
Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498016
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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
policy implementation, the OECD helps governments to improve their collective and individual environmental performance … develop a shared understanding of the key policy challenges as well as to assess performance and identify good practice in the … series under the OECD Environment Directorate’s project on Cities and Climate Change. The project aims to explore the city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045571
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Policy Interventions to Address Health Impacts Associated with Air Pollution, Unsafe Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hazardous Chemicals
Hunt, Alistair - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
The purpose of the paper is to review the recent empirical literature relating to the quantification and valuation of the human health impacts of air pollution, hazardous chemicals, and unsafe water and sanitation, and their use in cost-benefit analysis, as an input to environmental policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009146864
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Differentiated Intellectual Property Regimes for Environmental and Climate Technologies
Maskus, Keith - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
Prior to the Copenhagen meeting on developing a new framework for climate-change policy there were sharp differences between the positions of developed and developing countries regarding the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in fostering international technology transfer (ITT)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542488
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Environmental quality and life satisfaction : evidence based on micro-data
Silva, Jérôme; De Keulenaer, Femke; Johnstone, Nick - 2012
Environmental conditions are likely to have an effect on people’s sense of life satisfaction, both directly and indirectly. In recent years there has been a burgeoning literature assessing the relationship between measures of environmental quality and subjective well-being. This type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558878
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Climate mitigation co-benefits from sustainable nutrient management in agriculture : Incentives and opportunities
Andersen, Mikael Skou - 2021
Nitrogen management policies introduced in the past decades by some OECD countries have succeeded in reducing excess nitrogen use by farmers, but half of global mineral fertiliser use is still lost for crops. While about half of OECD countries have nutrient surpluses of between 25-50 kg N per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801171
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Conducting economic valuation surveys during extreme events
Mourato, Susana - 2021
There is no guidance on how to deal with the effects of catastrophic events, like the COVID-19 pandemic, on stated preference survey responses, despite the possible impact such events can have on stated values and survey responses. This paper provides a concise analysis of the likely effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801188
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The Norwegian CO2-differentiated motor vehicle registration tax : An extended Cost-Benefit Analysis
Eskeland, Gunnar S... - 2021
In addition to a longstanding CO2 component in fuel taxes, Norway has used two main policy instruments to decarbonise its car fleet. A CO2-differentiated registration tax gives strong and continuous incentives to buy cars with lower registered CO2 intensity (or higher fuel efficiency). Moreover,...
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