OECD Green Growth Division
Contents
- Urban Green Growth, special planning and land use:
- OECD Insights Blog: Playing the Long Game
- The Green Growth and Sustainable Forum, 9- 10 November, 2016
- Other OECD Green Growth events:
- Global Forum on Environment & Economic Growth, 24 & 25 October, 2016
- Latest publications
- Retrospective:
- OECD Environment Ministerial Meeting 28 -29 September, 2016
- World Green Economy Summit, 5-6 October, 2016
- Fourth Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference 6 -7 September, 2016
- Playing the Long Game (BLOG)
Imagine you have an important decision to make. Do you carefully consider the long-term implications of each possible option or do you act impulsively? Would you approach the decision-making process differently if the consequences stretched out to 30 or even 50 years? These and other questions related to greening urban green growth, spatial planning and land use can be found in a recent OECD Insights blog post.
Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum – 9-10 November 2016
The upcoming Forum will be held under the theme Urban green growth, spatial planning and land use.
It will bring together high-level speakers from diverse backgrounds, including opening remarks by OECD Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Rintaro Tamaki, key note speeches by Mr. Patrick Klugman, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France and Mr.Stanley Yip, Professor at the Centre of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University. Furthermore, OECD perspectives will be presented by Ms. Catherine L. Mann, Chief Economist, Economics Department, and Mr. Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of Division, Public Governance & Territorial Development.
Organised around three main sessions, the Forum will focus on the following topics:
- existing land use policies and green growth;
- remaining challenges of urban sprawl; and
- innovative approaches to green growth challenges in cities.
Issue papers are being developed to support these sessions and will be available shortly.
Interested in attending the Forum? Register by clicking here.
A side event for the launch of the newest OECD Report on “Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia” will take place on 10 November during lunch time.
Interested in attending the side event? please contact:[email protected]
Additional information can be found on the Forum’s website.
The OECD Green Growth Newsletter keeps OECD Committees, agencies and other stakeholders informed about the OECD’s Green Growth activities. Please [email protected] subscribe and/or access the International Green Growth Dialogue site.Previous issues of the newsletterare available on our website.
Other upcoming OECD Green Growth events:
The OECD Global Forum on Environment (24 &25 October, 2016) aims to shed light on the links between environment and economic growth, and the toolkits to quantify these links. It will provide a platform for experts from academia, governments, and the civil society from OECD and developing countries to explore how a well-managed natural environment can contribute to economic growth and how an effective and efficient regulatory system can best be designed.
Useful information :Latest publications
Effective Carbon Rates – Pricing CO2 through Taxes and Emissions Trading Systems
To tackle climate change, CO2 emissions need to be cut. Pricing carbon is one of the most effective and lowest-cost ways of inducing such cuts. This report presents the first full analysis of the use of carbon pricing on energy in 41 OECD and G20 economies, covering 80% of global energy use and of CO2 emissions. The analysis takes a comprehensive view of carbon prices, including specific taxes on energy use, carbon taxes and tradable emission permit prices. It shows the entire distribution of effective carbon rates by country and the composition of effective carbon rates by six economic sectors within each country. Carbon prices are seen to be often very low, but some countries price significant shares of their carbon emissions. The ‘carbon pricing gap’, a synthetic indicator showing the extent to which effective carbon rates fall short of pricing emissions at EUR 30 per tonne, the low-end estimate of the cost of carbon used in this study, sheds light on potential ways of strengthening carbon pricing.
- ·Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity: Methodology and Empirical results for OECD and G20 countries(2016)
- ·Land Cover and Land Use Indicators – Review of available data(2016)
- ·Population Exposure to Fine Particles – Methodology and Results for OECD and G20 countries(2016)
- ·Air Pollution Exposure Indicators – Review of Ground-Level Monitoring Data Availability and Proposed Calculation Method(2016)
- ·Farm Management Practices to foster Green Growth (2016)
- ·Reforming Economic Instruments for Water Resources Management in Kyrgyzstan(2016)
- ·Sustainable Business Models for Water Supply and Sanitation in Small Towns and Rural Settlements in Kazakhstan(available in Russian) (2016)
- ·Environmental Lending in EU Eastern Partnership Countries (2016)
Green Growth Studies and Green Growth Papersare available for online reading in the OECD iLibrary.
Retrospective:
OECD Environment Ministerial Meeting 28 -29 September, 2016
Environment Ministers convened in Paris on 28-29 September 2016 on the occasion of the OECD’s Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) ministerial meeting. Held every four years, this meeting addressed a variety of issues, ranging from short-lived and long-term drivers of climate change, the circular economy, air pollution, transport, biodiversity, marine protected areas, nitrogen, water security, and urban water pollution. It discussed policies to tackle pressing environmental challenges, build climate resilience, and enable countries to implement goals of the Paris Agreement through better mitigation and adaptation policies.
The previous 2012 Meeting of the EPOC at Ministerial Level “Making Green Growth Deliver” had issued an urgent call for green growth policies to avoid a locking in unsustainable energy systems and consumption practices. At this year’s discussions, green growth policies continued to emerge as key contributors to water security and sustainable growth, and as vehicles for more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly economic practices. Green growth was furthermore a central part of the debate examining the macro-economic implications of the circular economy and the investments needed in transport, energy, and urban and green infrastructure.
More information can be found on the Ministerial Chair Summary and website.
Fourth Green Growth Knowledge Platform Annual Conference 6 -7 September, 2016The Fourth Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) Annual Conference took place on the theme of “Transforming Development through Inclusive Green Growth” during 6-7 September 2016 at the International Convention Centre on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.The Fourth GGKP Annual Conference drew together leading global experts, academics, and practitioners to identify, discuss, and debate the latest research and policy solutions. In particular, the discussions explored how to ensure the pursuit of green growth is equitable and inclusive.Further information and documentation related to the GGKP Annual Conference can be found here
World Green Economy Summit, Dubai, UAE 5-6 October, 2016
The World Green Economy Summit (WGES) is an initiative by the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority. As an institutional partner, the OECD’s Matthew Griffiths participated under the session “Clean Water to the World”, discussing how cross sector partnerships can help conserve and manage water in a responsible way, while using the technologies and models available to tackle regional and global water scarcity. Visit the website for more information.