This report builds upon the growing momentum for an EU industrial transition to net-zero amongst policy makers and industry, and sketches the blueprint of such an industrial strategy towards climate neutrality. It identifies policy options to address key challenges industry faces on the transition path to climate neutrality. It also indicates how this policy set can be integrated into an industrial strategy and what governance instruments could guide to a successful implementation. This report should be seen as a primer to a more detailed and comprehensive debate on the need, design, implementation, and governance of a European industrial strategy for climate neutrality.
This report shows that a well-managed energy transformation based on Just Transition principles can meet UK climate commitments while protecting livelihoods and economic well-being, provided that the right policies are adopted and that the affected workers, trade unions, and communities are able to effectively guide these policies.
This web format for Environment at a Glance Indicators provides real-time, interactive online access to the latest comparable OECD country data on the environment from the OECD Core Set of Environmental Indicators—a tool to evaluate environmental performance in countries and to track the course towards sustainable development. These indicators provide key messages on major environmental trends in areas such as climate change, biodiversity, water resources, air quality, circular economy, and oceans (forthcoming).
This paper presents an ex-ante cost-benefit analysis of large-scale rangeland restoration through the Hima system within the Zarqa River Basin, drawing on experience from a pilot initiative by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture since 2010. The ecosystem services that arise from rangeland restoration are valued using a combination of stated preference, avoided costs, replacement cost, and market prices approaches.
This case study provides an updated overview of the European electricity sector transition, focusing on key topics like the growth in renewables, conventional power generation, electricity consumption, and CO₂ emissions. The case study also provides an overview of 2018 electricity consumption, generation and emissions by country with downloadable data for emissions by country to enable others to also perform up-to-date analysis.
This case study aims to show peer cities, large and small, that the principles and processes behind fossil fuel divestment are transferable to nearly any location where the will to divest exists.
This series of articles takes a close look at the approach toward carbon pricing in several provinces and considers where things stand now that the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, struck in late 2016, has fallen apart.
The paper Closing in on the Holy Grail of World Trade: Using Blockchain to Expand Southeast Asia’s Trade assesses the ways in which blockchain and related digital ledger technologies are enhancing trade performance through improvements in supply chain management, customs procedures, and trade finance in Southeast Asia.
This report summarises key aspects of the United States’ energy landscape and addresses each stage of the supply chain for fossil fuels, discussing in detail the subsidies and other measures that the United States and the review team have identified in the course of the review process.
This report provides guidance for practitioners on existing tools that can be applied to measure or model ecosystem services provided by important sites for biodiversity and nature conservation, including Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas.