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The Empirics of Enabling Investment and Innovation in Renewable Energy - Environment Working Paper

This paper undertakes econometric analysis to assess the impacts of climate mitigation policies and the quality of the investment environment on investment and innovation in renewable power in OECD and G20 countries. It also assesses how countries’ investment environments interact with climate mitigation policies to influence investment and patent activity in renewable power.

Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth

Infrastructure résiliente au climat : trouver les bonnes politiques - Document de travail sur l'environnement

Le changement climatique aura un impact sur tous les types d’infrastructure, notamment l’énergie, le transport et la gestion de l’eau. Cette étude propose un cadre d’action aux décideurs publics nationaux des pays de l’OCDE, pour les aider à s’assurer que leurs investissements dans les infrastructures nouvelles ou existantes sont résilients au changement climatique.

Mobilising Bond Markets for a Low-Carbon Transition

Adaptation aux changements climatiques et protection financière: Synthèse des résultats clés de la Colombie et le Sénégal - Document de travail sur l'environnement

Les pays en développement sont affectés de manière disproportionnée par la hausse des pertes liées aux événements climatiques extrêmes. Sur la base d’études de cas en Colombie et au Sénégal, ce document examine comment les pays utilisent la protection financière dans le cadre de leurs approches de gestion des risques climatiques.

Green Investment Banks: Innovative Public Financial Institutions Scaling up Private, Low-carbon Investment - Environment Policy Paper

This Policy Paper describes the relatively new phenomenon of publicly-capitalised green investment banks and examines why they are being created and how they are mobilising private investment. It draws on the OECD report “Green Investment Banks: Scaling up Private Investment in Low-carbon, Climate-resilient Infrastructure".

2020 Projections of Climate Finance Towards the USD 100 Billion Goal

This note sets out projections for climate finance in 2020 along with the underlying assumptions and methodologies used to construct them based on recent climate finance pledges by countries and multilateral institutions.

LIVEstream video on carbon pricing

On Monday 26 September, OECD Environment Director, Simon Upton, hosted Kurt van Dender, OECD environmental tax policy expert from the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration to discuss the OECD publication on Effective Carbon Rates - a new, combined measure of the extended to which countries use taxes and emissions trading systems to price carbon, and explore the carbon pricing gap.

Air pollution: Tyre and brake fatigue compound an exhausting problem

Anyone else feeling exhausted by all this drum humming about air pollution? Indeed it appears the fumes won’t be dissipating any time soon as we consider the extent to which tyre and brake rubbish exacerbate the problem.

Les conséquences économiques du changement climatique