Publications & Documents

Extended Producer Responsibility: A Guidance Manual for Governments

This guidance manual represents one means to inform national governments about the potential benefits and costs associated with EPR.

Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Growth in France (Economics Department Working Paper 314)

This working paper analyses certain economic aspects of environmental policy in France, focussing on greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and discharges in city air.

The Potential for Using Tax Instruments to Address Non CO2 Greenhouse Gases: CH4, N20, HFCs, PFCs and SF6

The Committee on Fiscal Affairs and the Environment Policy Committee launched a series of Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts in 1999. One part of the mandate of these meetings was to monitor developments and contribute, where appropriate, to tax aspects of the follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. As a contribution to this work, it was decided to undertake a study of

Behavioral Responses to Environmentally-related Taxes

The impact of a given change in taxation on the environment will to a large extent depend on the relevant price elasticities. The present report provides an overview of available estimates of own-price elasticities regarding energy and transport.

OECD Joint Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility and Waste Minimisation Policy - Part 1

The Working Party on Pollution Prevention and Control OECD Joint Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility and Waste Minimisation Policy in Support of Environmental Sustainability Paris, 4-7 May 1999

Greening Tax Mixes in OECD Countries: A Preliminary Assessment

The Committee on Fiscal Affairs and the Environment Policy Committee launched a series of Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts in 1999. One part of the mandate of these meetings was to monitor green tax reform in OECD member countries. As a contribution to this work, it was decided to undertake a study of OECD country experience with green tax reform. The issue of the environment employment “double dividend” is of particular

OECD Seminar Social and Environment Interface - Proceedings

Following an internal seminar with participation of staff from various OECD Directorates (ENV, ECO, DELSA, TDS), the Environment Directorate organised an OECD Seminar on the Social Environment Interface, on September 22-24, 1999.

Report on Indicators for the Integration of Environmental Concerns into Transport Policies, 1999

The OECD maintains an extensive set of environmental indicators, including those related to transport. These are regularly updated and included in the OECD Environmental Data Compendium publications. A recent report on Indicators for the Integrat...

Towards More Sustainable Household Consumption Patterns: Indicators to Measure Progress.

Towards More Sustainable Household Consumption Patterns: Indicators to Measure Progress

This report is part of the OECD work programmes on environmental indicators and on sustainable consumption. It further contributes to the OECD-wide project on sustainable development indicators. It builds on...