Partager les résultats d’essais et d’évaluations des produits chimiques fait économiser 150 millions € par an, selon l’OCDE

12-Oct-2011

À l’heure où les instances réglementaires publiques sont confrontées à des restrictions budgétaires et où les entreprises de l’industrie chimique doivent réduire leurs coûts, ce rapport montre comment, en collaborant dans le cadre de l’OCDE, les pouvoirs publics et les industriels économisent près de 150 millions EUR par an, tout en garantissant une évaluation et une gestion appropriées des produits chimiques.

QSAR Toolbox: New training material available (second batch)

16-Aug-2011

A second batch of training material for version 2 of the Toolbox is now available. The QSAR Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. This second batch of training material is focused on guiding the users in a step-by-step manner through a number of advanced examples as well as familiarizing the users with some advanced features of the Toolbox.

New Test Guidelines

04-Aug-2011

Five new Test Guidelines have been adopted by the OECD Council on 28 July 2011.

Update of QSAR Toolbox (version 2.2) now available for free download

21-Jul-2011

(Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships or (Q)SARs are methods for estimating properties of a chemical from its molecular structure. The QSAR Toolbox is a software intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders to apply (Q)SARs to fill data gaps needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. This updated version 2.2 contains a number of new functionalities and bug fixes. The release is part of a collaboration between OECD and the European Chemicals Agency.

Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia adopted at the Ministerial Meeting in Kiev

18-Jul-2011

Environmental Ministers from the whole Europe, the US and Canada in their Declaration adopted at the Conference in May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine adopted "Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)" as a basis for true institutional restructuring and rebuilding enforcement and compliance assurance systems following the crisis that touched the region in the 1990s.

OECD side events at Bonn Climate Change Talks, 8-14 June 2011

21-Jun-2011

The OECD is pleased to announce its involvement in three side events at the UN Climate Change Talks in Bonn ("SB34"): on 8th June it hosted an event on MRV reporting in biennial reports. On 10th June, OECD and UNFCCC held a joint event on the MRV of support. On 14th June, OECD & IEA joined forces to examine how to ensure the integrity of emissions unit accounting after 2012. A publications stand featured recent OECD reports and publications on climate change.

Green Growth for an Inclusive World Economy

20-Jun-2011

"The success of green growth will depend on whether it is a shared global agenda. Many developing countries are not yet fully equipped to introduce new ‘greener’ policies and tap into the benefits of a green future", declared Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General at the Global Green Growth Summit.

Sauvegarder la compétitivité internationale dans un monde caractérisé par une tarification non uniforme du carbone

16-Jun-2011

Cette note de synthèse met en lumière les enseignements qui se dégagent d’une décennie d’analyses par l’OCDE et par l'AIE du problème de la compétitivité internationale dans le cadre de la politique climatique.

Environment: a source of future economic growth in Portugal

11-Apr-2011

Despite Portugal’s economic and political challenges, it is still committed to improving the environment. The government sees green investment in its stimulus package and green tax reform as part of the solution to the national budget deficit.

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