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04-Oct-2010
Biodiversity provides critical ecosystem services for our economy, society and human wellbeing – bees to fertilize crops, plants that provide medicines, and forests that clean air and regulate our climate. Healthy ecosystems support livelihoods for millions of people and are the basis of sustainable development. We need smarter, more efficient policies to safeguard biodiversity. Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services recommends ways to design more effective and less costly PES programmes.
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04-May-2010
Dans ce discours, Angel Gurría rappelle que l’approche économique de l’eau, repose en priorité sur des institutions solides et une bonne gouvernance, notamment des politiques appropriées en matière de: gestion de la ressource en eau, financement des infrastructures liées à l’eau et tarification de l’eau et des services associés.
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31-Mar-2010
The OECD convened an expert workshop on Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services on 25th March 2010. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) translate external non-market values of the environment into tangible financial incentives, creating a link between the providers of ecosystem services and the beneficiaries of their provision. PES programmes are proliferating across developed and developing countries to correct for a wide range of environmental challenges, and are channelling increasingly larger amounts of finance.
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16-Mar-2010
In his opening remarks for the book launch for the Horizontal Water Programme, Mr. Gurría underlined that good water management is important for a stronger, cleaner and fairer economy.
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24-Feb-2010
Water is vital for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. Poor governance and inadequate investment, however, are resulting in large populations not having access to the water services they need.
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30-Nov-2009
This report examines how biodiversity co-benefits in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) can be enhanced, both at the design and implementation level. It discusses potential biodiversity implications of different REDD design options that have been put forward in the international climate change negotiations and proceeds by examining how the creation of additional biodiversity-specific incentives could be used to complement a REDD mechanism, so as to target biodiversity benefits directly (OECD Environment Working Papers).
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13-Jul-2009
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss and exchange experiences and views on: (i) existing financing gaps and the need for an international financing mechanism for biodiversity; (ii) how to scale-up existing financing for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use; (iii) how to enhance the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity financing, including via targeting; and (iv) lessons learned and how to move forward.
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15-Jun-2009
Biodiversity policies promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats. In doing so, they create significant public benefits and contribute to social well-being.
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15-Jun-2009
In 2008, the OECD Working Group on Economic Aspects of Biodiversity undertook a review of country implementation of the Council Recommendation.
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18-Mar-2009
One billion people cannot get clean drinking water and 2.5 billion lack access to basic sanitation which cause 1.5 million preventable child deaths per year. While addressing the emergency of the current crisis, we must not forget that water is the most essential good and we should find new and innovative approaches to allow everyone access to water and sanitation, according to the OECD Secretary-General.
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