Environmental Policy Stringency Index

Data source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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Description:

The OECD Environmental Policy Stringency Index (EPS) is a country-specific and internationally-comparable measure of the stringency of environmental policy.

Last updated by source: 2017-01-03

Dataset type: Time-Series
Dataset level: Country

Citation:

When using this dataset, please cite as:
• Botta, E., & Kozluk, T. (2014). Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries: A composite index approach. OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1177.



Variables in this dataset:

Environmental Policy Stringency Index
QoG Code: oecd_eps

The index measures the degree to which environmental policies put an explicit or implicit price on polluting or environmentally harmful behaviour. The index ranges from 0 (not stringent) to 6 (highest degree of stringency) and is based on the degree of stringency of 14 environmental policy instruments, both market-based and non-market-based, primarily related to climate and air pollution. These policy instruments include environmental taxes on SOx, NOx, diesel, and CO2; trading schemes in CO2; renewable energy and energy efficiency certificates; feed-in tariffs on solar and wind energy; deposit and refund schemes; emission limit values on NOx, SOx, PMx and sulphur content limits in diesel, as well as government expenditure on research and development within renewable energy.

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