General Information

• Analyzing Resource Impact of Fisheries Subsidies: A Matrix Approach
• Economic Instruments in Biodiversity-related Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Policy Issues and Challenges, OECD, 2003
• Financing for Sustainable Forest Management: Current Challenges in the Changed Financial Environment.
• From Theory to Practice: Incentive Measures in Developing Countries
• Improving The Environment through Reducing Subsidies - Part I, Part II + Part III, OECD, 2000
• Incentive Measures and WTO Rules (ICTSD COP8 Biodiversity and Trade Briefings, March 2006)
• Incorporating Resource Impact into Fisheries Subsidies Disciplines: Issues and Options
• Individual transferable quotas as an incentive measure for the conservation and the sustainable use of marine biodiversity
• Information on recent work of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on incentive measures
• OECD activities relating to subsidies and the environment
• Perverse Incentives in Biodiversity Loss, OECD, 2003
• Perverse Subsidies
• Progress in Implementation on Economic Aspects of Forests: Report of the Secretary-General
• Subsidies in World Fisheries, A Reexamination
• Subsidy reform: doing more to help the environment by spending less on activities that harm
• World Trade Report 2006: Exploring the links between subsidies, trade and the WTO
• Canada, Mexico, United States of America
  Illegal Trade in Wildlife: A North American Perspective
• Mexico
  Structural Adjustment, Market and Policy Failures: The Case of Maize

Case Studies

• Deadly Subsidies
• IUCN Compilation: Examples of various Kinds of Incentives and Disincentives
• Reforming Energy and Transport Subsidies: Environmental and Economic Implications, OECD, 1997
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
• Australia
  Unintended consequences of policy settings for water quality in Australia
• Austria
  Economic incentive measures in the creation of the National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel, Austria
• Botswana
  Promoting a sustainable water supply in Botswana
• Canada
  Incentive measures in the Canadian National Forest Strategy
• Colombia
  Incentivos para la Concervacion y Uso Sostenible de la Biodiversidad, Colombia
• Czech Republic
  Incentive Measures in the Czech Republic
• Denmark
  Economic incentives for the transformation of privately cultivated forest areas into strict (untouched) forest reserves in Denmark
• European Community, Netherlands, Spain, Czech Republic
  Incentive measures in the European Union and some of its member states (the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Spain)
• Finland
  The Act of the financing of sustainable forestry and the development of forest certification in Finland
• Greece
  Incentives for the conservation of the nesting grounds of the sea turtle, Caretta caretta, in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos, Greece
• Kenya
  Financial and policy instruments for the conservation of Mount Kenya forest, Kenya
• Lebanon
  Tax exemptions or reductions and environmental funds in the Code of Environment of Lebanon
• Netherlands
  Green investment funds: Organic Farming, The Netherlands
• New Zealand
  Protection of Natural Heritage on Private Land, New Zealand
• Norway
  The role of economic tools in Norway's Action Plan for Biodiversity
• Peru
  Actuales Incentivos Económicos en los Diversos Sectores, Peru
• Saint Lucia
  Perverse incentives emanating from St. Lucia's Forest, Soil and Water Conservation Ordinance
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Heathland management in the United Kingdom
• United States of America
  Incentives to enhance conservation of endangered species on private land in the United States