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15-Mar-2011
Governments looking to boost their economies, create jobs and meet environmental targets see eco-innovation as part of the solution. “With climate change and the depletion of natural resources threatening our future, we need to change the way we think, the way we live and the way we do business. We must develop new ideas and new technologies, and eco-innovation has a key role to play”, said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria. Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation reviews national strategies to develop and disseminate environment-friendly innovations.
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11-Feb-2011
Environmental pressures from households are significant, and their impacts are likely to intensify over the coming years. The project on Household Behaviour and Environmental Policy initiated by the Environment Directorate aims at better understanding what affects people’s attitudes and decisions and households’ responses to environmental policies in order to provide guidance to policy-makers in five key public policy areas: residential energy and water use, transport choices, organic food consumption, and waste generation and recycling.
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12-May-2010
This report reviews the economic logic of the positions of developed and developing countries regarding the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in fostering international technology transfer (ITT). and reviews available empirical evidence. For more information, www.oecd.org/environment/innovation.
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23-Apr-2010
OECD Secretary-General says that living beyond our limits is accelerating global warming. He calls upon governments to increase their emissions reductions targets, commit more financing, and ensure that mitigation is measurable, reportable and verifiable. Responding to fears that carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes could harm competitiveness, Gurría says that these concerns are exaggerated and that sharing green technologies and international co-operation can help level the playing field.
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17-Mar-2010
A paper focusing on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement, wastewater effluent treatment, solid waste management, and climate change mitigation has just been issued. It describes the trends in innovative activity related to selected areas of pollution abatement and control technologies and their transfer internationally.
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19-Nov-2009
This paper was prepared by Nick Johnstone and Ivan Haščič (OECD Secretariat). It is a contribution to the OECD project on “Environmental Policy and Technological Change”. It focuses on the effects of environmental policy framework conditions on innovation with respect to air and water pollution abatement, and solid waste management.
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24-Jun-2009
This report is a contribution to the OECD Environment Directorate's work on environmental policy and technological innovation (www.oecd.org/environment/innovation). It summarises recent progress in the development of indicators of innovation and transfer in environmentally sound technologies (EST). A number of alternative measures are discussed, and the methodology for the development of indicators based on patent data is presented.
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15-Jun-2009
Speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas, Mr. Gurria called on all countries to use the economic crisis as an opportunity to promote ‘green’ growth. Collective action and bold political will, he said, will be necessary to draft environmentally sound stimulus packages, reduce emissions, foster green innovation, and work towards a successful UN Climate Change Conference at the end of the year.
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