Outdoor air pollution kills more than 3 million people across the world every year, and causes health problems from asthma to heart disease for many more.
Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of the factors that affect people's behaviour towards the environment.
Outdoor air pollution kills more than 3 million people across the world every year, and causes health problems from asthma to heart disease for many more.
This report synthesises the experience of OECD countries in developing and implementing policies, programmes and initiatives related to green growth in the agricultural sector, based primarily on material provided by governments.
Le programme d'examens environnementaux de l'OCDE propose des evaluations independantes des progres accomplis par les pays eu egard a leurs engagements nationaux et internationaux en matiere d'environnement, ainsi que des recommandations orientees vers l'action des pouvoirs publics.
This publication examines the critical issues surrounding water security (water shortage, water excess, inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems), providing a rationale for a risk-based approach and the management of trade-offs between water and other (sectoral and environmental) policies.
The OECD Green Growth Strategy supports countries in fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies.
Parce que l'innovation technologique peut permettre d'atteindre des objectifs environnementaux moindre cot, il importe de comprendre en quoi l'laboration des politiques de l'environnement et l'innovation technologique sont lies.
Les manuels d'conomie prdisent que les taxes et les systmes d'change de permis d'mission sont les solutions les moins onreuses pour permettre la socit de rduire ses missions de CO2.
Il est indispensable de bien comprendre les facteurs qui influencent les dcisions des individus l'gard de l'environnement si l'on veut laborer des stratgies de croissance qui favorisent des modes de vie plus verts Les rcents travaux mens par l'OCDE partir d'enqutes priodiques auprs de plus de 10 000 mnages dans un certain nombre de pays et de domaines reprsentent un progrs dcisif pour autant qu'ils apportent de nouveaux clairages sur les mesures rellement efficaces.
This report synthesises the findings from six case studies of urban green growth policies, four at city level (Paris, Chicago, Stockholm, Kitakyushu) and two at the national level (China, Korea).
This report examines six mechanisms that can be used to scale-up financing for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and to help meet the 2011-20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
To address many of the environmental challenges that face us today, including climate change, countries are striving to deploy efficient and effective tools for environmental management at the national level.
Tradeable or transferable permits (TPs) are increasingly perceived as a cost-effective and flexible policy instrument for pollution control and natural resources management.
Improving resource productivity and ensuring a sustainable resource and materials management building on the principle of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) is a central element of green growth policies.
l programma degli esami ambientali dell'OCSE ha l'obiettivo di valutare in maniera indipendente i progressi conseguiti dai singoli Paesi a fronte degli impegni ambientali assunti a livello nazionale e internazionale, e di formulare raccomandazioni rilevanti per il miglioramento delle politiche ambientali.
Severe environmental problems were a key issue in the protests that marked the end of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
This Inventory is concerned with direct budgetary transfers and tax expenditures that relate to fossil fuels, regardless of their impact or of the purpose for which the measures were first put in place.
The OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme provides independent assessments of countries' progress in achieving their domestic and international environmental policy commitments, together with policy relevant recommendations.
Developing growth strategies that promote greener lifestyles requires a good understanding of the factors that affect people's behaviour towards the environment.
Volume II of this series compiles the science-based consensus documents of the OECD Task Force for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds from 2009 to 2014.
Substantial amounts of money continue to be spent in OECD countries on measures to support agriculture, energy, transportation and industrial activities.
Volume I of this series compiles the science-based consensus documents of the OECD Task Force for the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds from 2002 to 2008.
Technological innovation can lower the cost of achieving environmental objectives, so it is important to understand how environmental policy design and technological innovation are linked.