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03-Dec-2008
Water management is a challenge for both OECD and developing countries. Though the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation to be halved by 2015, many countries are not on track to meet these goals. Amid fears that the financial crisis would result in an aid crisis, OECD donors recently made an Aid Pledge, promising to honour their aid commitments, including the water-related MDGs.
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06-Aug-2008
New products and services are being developed at an increasing rate in the technology-driven global economy. But how can we ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account throughout the life cycle of these new products, from production to disposal?
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10-Jun-2008
Environmental regulators and inspectors from twelve countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia and their counterparts from OECD countries, NGOs and industry will gather in Tashkent to share experience and decide on their joint actions in 2008-2011.
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25-Oct-2007
A new OECD-led report “Policies for a Better Environment: Progress in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia ” examines the recent environmental performance of 12 eastern European and central Asian countries and finds that while the region’s economy is growing at 7% per year, environmental policy reforms are not keeping pace. While countries in the region have legal and policy frameworks, they do not implement or enforce regulations and spend too little on environmental investments.
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14-Sep-2007
The political and economic landscape in the countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) is evolving. Are environmental policies keeping pace? What are the main barriers to further progress? What are the emerging policy issues and priority areas for action? A new OECD/EAP Task Force report assesses the progress that has been made by countries so far in achieving the objectives of the EECCA Environment Strategy and focuses on actual policy measure taken by EECCA government.
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05-Sep-2007
Poor environmental compliance is symptomatic of policy failure and implies high costs for society, undermines the rule of law, and distorts the level playing field for businesses.
The current report, developed within the framework of the EAP Task Force’s Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN), reviews progress in transposing the Guiding Principles into practice and provides recommendations on future action.
The report argues that EECCA countries need to pursue a better regulation process aimed at ambitious, but also fair, feasible, and clear environmental requirements.
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16-Feb-2007
The purpose of this report is to analyse the current Moldovan system of surface water quality standards and develop a proposal for an improved system, using relevant EU Directives as a benchmark and considering Moldova’s obligations under various international agreements. This new system of Surface Water Quality Standards (SWQS) will be discussed it in a series of stakeholder workshops in Moldova
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01-Dec-2006
This informative press note summarises the key policy conclusions of the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development / World Bank “Public-Private Partnership in Water Supply and Sanitation - Recent Trends and New Opportunities” Paris, 29-30 November 2006. Visit the event's web page for more information .
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26-Sep-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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18-Sep-2006
This report draws on three detailed case studies in Eastern Europe, the Caucases and Central Asia (EECCA), and on the experience of OECD countries to provide guidance on how transfers from central budgets to local authorities could be designed to finance environmental infrastructures in transition economies.
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