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Environmental Policy Stringency Index

Data source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2017-01-03

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.

@article{eps1,
 author = {Botta, Enrico and Kozluk, Tomasz},
 journal = {OECD Economics Department Working Papers},
 last_updated = {2024-04-03},
 note = {Date accessed: 23 August 2020},
 number = {1177},
 publisher = {OECD Publishing},
 title = {Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries: A composite index approach},
 year = {2014}
}

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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 ...

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