Publications & Documents

Environmental Taxes and Green Tax Reform

This report reviews the state of the art and the lessons which can be drawn e.g. as to the competitiveness, social equity and employment implications of green taxes.

Extended Producer Responsibility in the OECD area - Phase 1 Report [OCDE/GD(96)48]

ENV Monograph No. 114 Pollution Prevention and Control Extended Producer Responsibility in the OECD area - Phase 1 Report. Also available in French.

OECD Council Resolution on Improving the Environmental Performance of the OECD [C(96)40/FINAL]

OECD Council Recommendation on Improving the Environmental Peformanceof Government

Recommendation of the Council on Improving the Environmental Performance of Government [C(96)39/FINAL]

Recommends that Member countries should develop and apply strategies for continually improving the environmental performance of their governments by integrating environmental considerations into all facets of government operations and facilities, including related decision-making processes.

Extended Producer Responsibility in the OECD Area: Legal and Administrative Approaches in Member Countries and Policy Options for EPR Programmes. Phase 1

Taxation and the Environment: Complementary Policies.

This report examines both approaches and discusses the tax and environmental policy issues raised by environmental taxes, (such as the desirability or non-desirability to earnmark to enviornmental programmes the proceeds of these taxes) and how tax and environmental policies can...

The costs of international agreements to reduce CO2 emissions: evidence from GREEN

This paper reports the results of several simulations with the OECD's GREEN model designed to quantify the economy-wide and global costs of a range of international agreements to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. OECD Economic Studies No. 19.

GREEN: a global model for quantifying the costs of policies to curb CO2 emissions

OECD Economic Studies No. 19, Winter 1992. By modeling the decisions of households and firms, applied general equilibrium (AGE) models are able to capture the economic mechanisms that link, in each period of time, the available resource base to man-made emissions of CO2. The OECD Economics Department has developed a global dynamic AGE model with the objective of quantifying the economic effects of policies aimed at reducing

Costs of reducing CO2 emissions: evidence from six global models

This paper summarises the results of an exercise in comparing the properties and predictions of GREEN and five other global models that have been developed in major energy and applied economic research centres. OECD Economic Studies No. 19.