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7-July-2020

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Blog: COVID-19 and the looming plastics pandemic

During the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, the city was dealing with more than 240 tons of medical waste a day, a six-fold increase over the amount being treated before the outbreak. Improperly discarded single-use facemasks and gloves have already been found at beaches of remote islands and floating at sea, adding to the already chronic problem of marine plastic litter...

3-juillet-2020

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Coût de l’inaction et rareté des ressources : Conséquences pour la croissance économique à long terme (CIRCLE)

Ce projet vise à évaluer comment le changement climatique, la rareté des ressources naturelles et autres aspects négatifs impactant l’environnement sont sont susceptibles d’affecter la croissance économique dans les décennies à venir. Il s’agit d'une évaluation globale à grande échelle qui englobe les implications de plusieurs défis environnementaux sur la croissance économique.

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Costs of Inaction and Resource scarcity: Consequences for Long-term Economic growth (CIRCLE)

12-June-2020

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The consequences of a more resource efficient and circular economy for international trade patterns - A modelling assessment

This report investigates the effects of a resource efficiency and circular economy (RE-CE) transition on international trade flows, using the OECD’s ENV-Linkages model. A global RE-CE policy package will cause secondary materials to become cheaper, while primary materials become more expensive to produce. By 2040, primary non-ferrous metals are projected to decline by 35-50%, primary iron & steel by 15% and primary non-metallic minerals by around 10%. Regional shifts in production and trade-related effects (shifts in the regional sourcing of the primary materials by the materials processing sectors) account for roughly one-third of the total reduction in materials use. The other two thirds of materials use reduction come from scale effects (reduced economic activity) and efficiency effects (reduced materials use per unit of output of the processed commodities).

23-September-2019

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Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Selected OECD Countries - Evidence from Environmental Performance Reviews

This report provides a cross-country review of waste, materials management and circular economy policies in selected OECD countries, drawing on OECD’s Environmental Performance Reviews during the period 2010-17. It presents the main achievements in the countries reviewed, along with common trends and policy challenges, and provides insights into the effectiveness and efficiency of waste, materials management and circular economy policy frameworks. As the selected reviews were published over a seven-year period, information for some countries may be more recent than for others. Nevertheless, the policy recommendations emerging from the reviews may provide useful lessons for other OECD countries and partner economies.

16-August-2019

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Flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations: Their use and impacts - Environment Working Paper

Based on an in-depth literature review and responses to a survey among OECD member countries, this paper discusses the use of flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations. The literature on these issues is limited, but it is clear that some such mechanisms can have important environmental and economic impacts.

22-July-2019

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Global Forum on Environment - Plastics in a Circular Economy: Design of Sustainable Plastics from a Chemicals Perspective

Policy instruments can be applied to improve the sustainability of plastics, including regulations, market-based instruments, information and voluntary tools. The report reviews the use of these instruments, provides good practice examples, such as product taxes and charges, eco-design standards, extended producer responsibility and environmental product labels, as well as discussing opportunities for their future applications.

19-July-2019

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Policy approaches to incentivise sustainable plastic design - Environment Working Paper

Policy instruments can be applied to improve the sustainability of plastics, including regulations, market-based instruments, information and voluntary tools. The report reviews the use of these instruments, provides good practice examples, such as product taxes and charges, eco-design standards, extended producer responsibility and environmental product labels, as well as discussing opportunities for their future applications.

12-February-2019

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Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060 - Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences

This report presents global projections of materials use and their environmental consequences, providing a quantitative outlook to 2060 at the global, sectoral and regional levels for 61 different materials (biomass resources, fossil fuels, metals and non-metallic minerals). It explains the economic drivers determining the decoupling of economic growth and materials use, and assesses how the projected shifts in sectoral and regional economic activity influence the use of different materials. The projections include both primary and secondary materials, which provides a deeper understanding of what drives the synergies and trade-offs between extraction and recycling. The report projects a doubling of global primary materials use between today and 2060. Population and converging per capita income growth drive the growth in materials use. However, structural change, especially in non-OECD countries, and technology improvements partially dampen that growth. Metals and non-metallic minerals are projected to grow more rapidly than other types of materials.

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Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060 - Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences

23-janvier-2019

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Responsabilité élargie du producteur et l'impact des ventes en ligne - Document de travail de l'environnement

La responsabilité élargie des producteurs (REP) est une approche politique visant à accroître la récupération et le recyclage des déchets. Les systèmes de REP visent à responsabiliser les producteurs à l’égard des incidences de leurs produits sur l’environnement, de la conception à la fin de leur cycle de vie. Ce rapport se concentre sur le libre-échange des producteurs, que l’augmentation rapide des ventes en ligne a exacerbée.

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the Impact of Online Sales - Environment Working Paper

23-janvier-2019

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Responsabilité élargie du producteur

L’OCDE définit la responsabilité élargie des producteurs (REP) comme une approche de politique environnementale dans laquelle la responsabilité d’un producteur à l’égard d’un produit s’étend au stade post-consommation de son cycle de vie.

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Extended Producer Responsibility

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