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29-juil.-2008
The Environment, Health and Safety News is a newsletter issued approximately every eight months. Its purpose is to provide an update on the main events and activities of the OECD Environment, Health and Safety Programme. Information on new publications arising from the Programme as well as dates and venues of upcoming events and meetings are given.
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Publication of the Report of the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Steering Group Seminar on Risk Reduction through Better Worker Safety and Training
22-juil.-2008
This report presents the results of an OECD seminar on ways to achieve pesticide risk reduction through worker safety and training. The seminar was hosted by Czech State Phytosanitary Administration, in Brno, Czech Republic, on 21 March 2007. It was chaired by Dr. Wolfgang Zornbach of the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture.
ENV/JM/MONO(2008)9 Part 1
ENV/JM/MONO(2008)9 Part 2
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11-juil.-2008
Ce nouvel ouvrage fournit une évaluation critique des coûts et des bénéfices de l’adaptation dans des secteurs clés sensibles au changement climatique ainsi qu’une évaluation multisectorielle au niveau national et mondial. cette analyse oriente le débat sur le potentiel et les limites des instruments économiques – par exemple, assurance et partage des risques, marchés et tarification de biens et services environnementaux, partenariats public-privé – visant à encourager les activités d’adaptation. Url friendly : www.oecd.org/env/cc/adaptationeco .
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03-juil.-2008
This report presents the results of a joint OECD/EC seminar on the development of harmonised environmental indicators for pesticide risk. The seminar was held on 13 November 2006 in Bonn (Germany). The aims of this seminar were to: present the indicators developed in the framework of the EC-funded HAIR project (Harmonised environmental Indicators for pesticide Risk), discuss issues related to further developments, and consider ways of broadening the use of these indicators across OECD Member countries.
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12-juin-2008
The OECD hosted a side event at the 28th Sessions of the subsidiary bodies to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (SB-28) in Bonn on June 10th. The theme was the "Economics of Adaptation and Mitigation", and it was organised in two parts: first, the launch of the new book "Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments" ; the second half featured the OECD Environmental Oultook to 2030 and Cities and Climate Change: the case of global port cities. Click on this title to access presentations.
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11-juin-2008
When they are applied in a practical setting, environmentally related taxes and tradable permit systems often differ from simple text-book recommendations that only focus on economic efficiency. This note, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith of University College, London, contains both a theoretical discussion of “real-world” constraints on policy formulation, and an empirical discussion of the Climate Change Levy vs. the domestic greenhouse gas trading system in the UK, as well as of the Landfill tax vs. the Landfill allowance trading system applied in the same country.
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10-juin-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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03-juin-2008
Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the Opening session of the OECD Forum 2008, OECD International Conference Centre, Paris, 3 June, 2008.
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03-juin-2008
"Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments", edited by Shardul Agrawala and Samuel Fankhauser. This new book provides a critical assessment of adaptation costs and benefits in key climate sensitive sectors, as well as at national and global levels. It examines the potential and limits of economic and policy instruments - e.g. insurance and risk sharing, environmental markets and pricing, public private partnerships - that can motivate adaptation actions. Friendly url: www.oecd.org/env/cc/ecoadaptation .
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03-juin-2008
OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials launched a “sponsorship programme” at its 3rd meeting (November 2007). Countries will share the testing of specific nanomaterials (MNs) under this programme. Much valuable information on the safety of MNs can be derived by testing a representative set for human health and environmental safety. In launching this “sponsorship programme” the Working Party agreed a priority list of MNs for testing (based on materials which are in or close to commerce) as well as a list of endpoints for which they should be tested.
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