PRESENTATION
Nathalie GirouardHead of the Environmental Performance and Information Division OECD
Towards Green Growth? Official Launch of the OECD's Tracking Progress Report
July 27, 2015
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TOP 8CHALLENGES
Shifting the tax burden in favour of environmentally related taxation
Implementing pricing instruments for transport, waste and water
Implementing an explicit price on carbon
Effectively managing subsidies to promote green technologies/ phasing-out environmentally perverse subsidies
Supporting green infrastructure development
Orientating innovation system for green growth
Eliminating environmentally-harmful discrepancies in tax systems.
Accelerating energy efficiency improvements
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Enhance understanding of complementarities andTrade-offs between economic and environmental goals,to better integrate environmental priorities into structuraleconomic reform priorities
Enhance public trust in green growth by effectivelyaddressing social impacts of reform, in OECD countries as wellas developing and emerging economies
Ensure that environmental policies are coherent and alignedwithin and across sectors
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Consider the ocean economy and miningin gearing sectoral policies for green growth
Factor in the particular set of challenges and opportunitiesgreen growth represents for developing and emergingeconomies
Use headline indicators to raise awareness, measure progressand identify opportunities and risks
60estimated number ofjurisdictions that have or areconsidering carbon pricing
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