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Environment Ministers to meet OECD headquarters, Paris 28 – 29 April, 2008
from 28-Apr-2008 to 29-Apr-2008
Ministers of Environment will meet on 28 – 29 April at OECD headquarters in Paris to address the challenges and opportunities of tackling climate change and the links between global competitiveness and environmental policies.
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from 07-Feb-2008 to 08-Feb-2008
The annual meeting of the EAP Task Force - first after the 6th "Enviroment for Europe" Ministerial Conference, held in October 2007 in Belgrade (Serbia), took place in Paris at the OECD Conference Centre on 7 and 8 February. High-level officials from environment ministries of OECD and non-member economies discussed the new programme of work and budget of the EAP Task Force for 2008, and elected the new co-Chairs and Bureau of the Task Force.
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from 20-Sep-2007 to 21-Sep-2007
The OECD is currently exploring the links between environmental innovation and globalisation. The main output of this project will be a report, “Environmental Innovation and Global Markets”, based on interviews with companies and government officials in 8 OECD countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States) and in China. This workshop provides a forum for that dialogue. The outcomes of the workshop discussions will serve to finalise the policy recommendations in the report.
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on 04-May-2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released the Summary for Policy Makers of its Working Group III report on the Mitigation of Climate Change. The OECD welcomes this important study, which highlights that there is significant room to cost-effectively reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. OECD experts have actively contributed to the development of the IPCC assessment and the OECD is working to support countries to advance policies that will realise this potential in a way that is least-cost.
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from 19-Jun-2007 to 20-Jun-2007
Co-organised with the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the United Nations University-Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), this workshop will highlight countries’ experience in dealing with environmental issues in Regional Trade Agreements – with a particular focus on Foreign Trade Agreement negotiations in Asia.
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Citizens of the earth - The Paris Conference for global ecological governance
on 02-Feb-2007
Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Angel Gurría stressed that the world is at risk from current patterns of growth and consumption, and he spoke about OECD research and recommendations addressing raising living standards without destroying the environment.
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from 13-Mar-2007 to 14-Mar-2007
An international multi-stakeholder workshop “Environmental Policies, Instruments, and Institutions in EECCA: The Emerging Agenda” will be held on the 13-14 March 2007. Representatives of all major stakeholder groups (government officials, experts, non-governmental organisations, think-tanks, and the business sector) are invited to participate in the workshop.
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on 13-Mar-2007
The annual meeting of the Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN) in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) was held in Brussels on 13th March 2007.
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from 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, in cooperation with the World Bank and Agence Française de Développement, will discuss how governments in developing countries can work with local private water companies to provide affordable safe water and basic sanitation, and the role donors, the financial sector and international private water companies should play.
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from 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
This event is taking place in the framework of the Global Forum on Sustainable Development on the topic of Public Private Partnerships in the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector and it is organised by the OECD with support from the World Bank and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
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