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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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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 - 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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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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The Health Costs of Inaction with Respect to Air Pollution
Scapecchi, Pascale - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008
How much does the environment affect human health? Is air pollution shortening our lives and those of our children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045576
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Incorporating Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Environmental Impact Assessments: Opportunities and Challenges
Agrawala, Shardul; Kramer, Arnoldo Matus; … - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
Assessments (EIA) are particularly relevant in this context.<BR>Les administrations nationales et les agences de développement ont …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490302
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Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction: Evidence Based on Micro-Data
Silva, Jérôme; Keulenaer, Femke de; Johnstone, Nick - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 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/10011276606
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Environmental and Related Social Costs of the Tax Treatment of Company Cars and Commuting Expenses
Roy, Rana - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2014
This paper builds upon a recent OECD paper on the personal tax treatment of company cars and commuting expenses in OECD member-countries and aims to arrive at a better understanding of the environmental and related social costs of the tax treatment described therein.<P> The paper begins with an...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276631