OECD Environmental Performance Reviews.

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This OECD Environmental Performance Review provides an independent assessment of Germany's progress in achieving domestic and international environmental policy commitments, together with policy relevant recommendations. It has been conducted to promote peer learning, to enhance countries' accountability to each other and to the public, and to improve governments' environmental performance, individually and collectively. These Reviews are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data. Each cycle of the Environmental Performance Reviews covers all OECD member countries and selec.  Read more... Preface Foreword Table of contents General notes Executive summary Part I. Progress towards sustainabledevelopment Chapter1. Key environmental trends 1. Introduction Box 1.1. The economic and social context 2. Transition to a low-carbon, energy- and resource-efficient economy 2.1. Carbon and energy intensities Figure 1.1. CO2 and GHG emissions Figure 1.2. Energy intensity and renewable energy sources 2.2. Resource efficiency Figure 1.3. Resource productivity 3. Managing the natural asset base Figure 1.4. Natural asset base 4. Improving the environmental quality of life. Figure 1.5. Environmental quality of lifeNotes Selected sources Chapter 2. Policy-making environment Assessment and recommendations 1. Key environmental and sustainable development initiatives Box 2.1. The National Strategy on Biological Diversity Box 2.2. Resource efficiency initiatives 2. Institutional framework for environmental and sustainable development policies 2.1. Horizontal and vertical co-ordination 3. Evaluation mechanisms 4. Stakeholder involvement Box 2.3. The Environmental Information Act Box 2.4. European Court of Justice ruling on access to environmental justice. NoteSelected sources Chapter 3. Towards green growth Assessment and recommendations 1. Greening the tax system Figure 3.1. Environmentally related taxes 1.1. Energy taxation and the eco-tax reform Table 3.1. Eco-tax reform schedule Figure 3.2. Implicit tax rates on energy and labour Figure 3.3. Road fuel prices and taxes 1.2. Vehicle taxes Box 3.1. The 2009 car scrapping programme 2. Removing environmentally perverse incentives Table 3.2. Environmentally harmful subsidies in Germany, 2008 2.1. Energy subsidies 2.2. Vehicle use 2.3. Housing and construction. 2.4. Agriculture and fisheries3. Extending the use of pricing mechanisms Box 3.2. Water pricing 4. Ensuring a consistent regulatory framework Box 3.3. Regulation of small stationary sources of air emissions Box 3.4. Addressing water pollution from agriculture Box 3.5. Extended producer responsibility: waste electrical and electronic equipment 5. Investing in the environment to promote economic growth 5.1. Environment-related components of the stimulus and consolidation packages Table 3.3. Environment-related components of the recovery package. 5.2. Pollution abatement and control and environment-related expenditure and financingFigure 3.4. Pollution abatement and control expenditure by sector and domain, 2000 and 2008 Figure 3.5. Investment in domestic construction of renewable energy installations, a 2010 6. Environmental goods and services Figure 3.6. Turnover in the environmental goods and services sector, 2009 7. Environment, trade and development 7.1. Official development assistance Figure 3.7. Bilateral aid in support of the environment Table 3.4. Germany's contribution to fast-start financing, disbursements 2010a.