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December 2020

A toolkit for sustainable investment policy and regulation

World Bank Group
This toolkit provides a high-level overview of five foundational sustainable investment policies explaining why each is important, setting out their key features and presenting some examples of such policies in action.
November 2014

The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), London School of Economics and Political Science

This policy brief looks at the impacts of environmental regulations on regulated companies.

December 2014

The Stringency of Environmental Regulations and Trade in Environmental Goods

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report assesses conceptually and empirically the extent to which the stringency of environmental regulations spurs the development of a market for a whole range of equipment specifically meant for preventing and abating pollution. Many of the measures governments adopt to address environmental issues take the form of regulations that aim to change the behaviour of firms or households. By increasing demand for environmental products and technologies, environmental policy can complement trade policy in supporting pollution-reduction efforts not just domestically, but also abroad.
August 2013

Measuring Environmental Regulatory Stringency

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Researchers have long been interested in whether environmental regulations discourage investment, reduce labour demand, or alter patterns of international trade. But estimating those consequences of regulations requires devising a means of measuring their stringency empirically.

23 March 2016

Environmental Policies and Economic Performance

Shardul Agrawala, Tomasz Koźluk
Shardul Agrawala and Tomasz Koźluk OECD Environment Directorate discuss how productivity is generally not negatively affected by the introduction of more stringent environmental policies.
June 2020

Accelerating Corporate Climate Action: The role of policy

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
CDP has analyzed climate-related information disclosed by some of the world’s biggest companies, and, based on these insights, provided recommendations to policymakers, financial regulators and supervisors on what actions to take to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
June 2017

Mine Tailings Storage: Safety is no Accident

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Acknowledging community concerns over the impact of tailings dam failures, such as at Mount Polley and Samarco, this report seeks to examine and explain why tailings dam failures continue to occur.

Portugal - Single Environmental Permit (SEP) System

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Portugal

Portugal commits to develop and implement the Single Environmental Permit (SEP) which establishes a set of requirements aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental procedures.The SEP highlights: articulation procedures, allowing them to run simultaneously, based on a sing

January 2019

Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report

This report discusses the range of measure that countries are adopting to address the implementation gap when it comes to environmental regulations and to ensure that rule of law is effective in the environmental sphere.
12 December 2014
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Do environmental policies matter for productivity growth?

New research from the OECD shows that more stringent environmental policies can be introduced without hurting overall productivity growth.

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