In September 2015, the UN Assembly unanimously approved its new Sustainable Development Goals.
This publication presents new measures and new ways of looking at traditional indicators. It builds on 50 years of indicator development by OECD and goes beyond R&D to describe the broader context in which innovation occurs.
This report examines the feasibility of China adopting new global standards for tracking the latest data and trends in its Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS), as a means to inform its green development strategy and identify potential new green growth opportunities.
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.
There is a growing body of evidence that environmental regulations can support strong economic performance. This report from Sustainable Prosperity finds that environmental regulation comes with lower compliance costs and greater innovation than previously thought.