Over the past decades, governments have gradually adopted more rigorous environmental policies to tackle challenges associated with pressing environmental issues, such as climate change. The empirical evidence in this volume – covering a decade of OECD analysis – shows that environmental policies have had relatively small effects on economic outcomes such as employment, investment, trade and productivity. At the same time, they have been effective at reducing emissions from industry.
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There have been concerns that the EU ETS’ main policy to reduce emissions would weaken European industry competitiveness.
Est-ce que des politiques environnementales plus rigoureuses ont un impact négatif sur la compétitivité aux exportations?
Est-ce que les politiques environnementales sont importante pour la productivité?