General notes
Executive summary
PART I. PROGRESS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 1. Key environmental trends
-1. Introduction
-2. Transition to a low-carbon, energy- and resource-efficient economy
-3. Managing the natural asset base
-4. Improving the environmental quality of life
-Selected sources
Chapter 2. Policy-making environment
-Assessment and recommendations.
-1. Key environmental and sustainable development initiatives
-2. Institutional framework for environmental and sustainable development policies
-3. Evaluation mechanisms
-4. Stakeholder involvement
-Selected sources
Chapter 3. Towards green growth
-Assessment and recommendations
-1. Greening the tax system
-2. Removing environmentally perverse incentives
-3. Extending the use of pricing mechanisms
-4. Ensuring a consistent regulatory framework
-5. Investing in the environment to promote economic growth
-6. Environmental goods and services
-7. Environment, trade and development
-Selected sources
PART II. PROGRESS TOWARDS SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES
Chapter 4. Environmental innovation
-Assessment and recommendations
-1. Encouraging technological innovation in German environmental policy: an overview
-2. Environmental policy instruments to foster innovation
-3. General innovation policy
-4. Policy co-ordination
-Selected sources
-Annex 4.A. Overview of tariffs under the Renewable Energy Sources Act
Chapter 5. Climate change
-Assessment and recommendations
-1. Introduction
-2. GHG emission performance
-3. Policy-making framework
-4. Pricing carbon
-5. Policies and measures in the energy sector
-6. Policies and measures in the transport sector
-7. Climate policy after 2012
-8. Adaptation
-Selected sources
References
-I.A. Selected economic data
-I.B. Selected social data
-I.C. Selected environmental data
-II. Actions taken on the 2001 OECD Review Recommendations
-III. Abbreviations