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Singapore and Brazil Becomes Provisional Adherent to MAD Council Decisions
19-janv.-2010
April 2007
Singapore and Brazil are the 5th and 6th non-member economies to join the Council Decisions on Mutual Acceptence of Data in the Assessment of Chemicals, respectively. The period of provisional adherence, during which time Singapore and Brazil will accept data from OECD member countries and other adhering economies while they establish their GLP compliance monitoring programmes, began in 2007.
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09-nov.-2009
Toronto is home to 40% of Canada’s business headquarters, the world’s seventh largest stock exchange, and it produces almost 20% of the national GDP. OECD’s new review of the Toronto region makes numerous recommendations to help the city out of its economic doldrums and make it more sustainably competitive.
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28-août-2009
Several new publications of the OECD Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials are now available. Click above to download the documents.
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28-août-2009
Financing climate change is one of the key issues that needs to be resolved for a successful international climate agreement, and is a topic for G20 finance ministers to discuss in London in September. OECD works with government representatives from finance ministries, environment ministries and development co-operation agencies on several of the key issues relating to a post-2012 financial architecture.
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Next Training Course on GLP, October 2009, Switzerland
19-juin-2009
The 9th OECD Training Course for GLP Inspectors will be held in Basel, Switzerland, on 4-9 October 2009. This basic course will cover all aspects of principles, development and implementation of Good Laboratory Practice, with emphasis on on-site inspections for evaluating GLP compliance. Registration to the Course, made through the National GLP Monitoring Authorities, are now CLOSED.
The 10th Training Course will be hosted by Israel in the course of 2011.
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15-juin-2009
S'exprimant à l'occasion du Forum économique international des Amériques, M. Gurría a appelé les pays à se servir de la crise économique comme un tremplin vers une économie mondiale plus verte et durable. Il a affirmé qu’une action collective et une forte volonté politique seront nécessaires pour mettre en place des plans de relance écologiquement viables, réduire les émissions carboniques, encourager l’innovation « verte » et parvenir à un accord satisfaisant à l’issue de la conférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique en décembre 2009.
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05-juin-2009
The OECD actively participated in the UN "Climate Change Talks Bonn" held 1-12 June 2009. On 9 June, the OECD side event "Building a global carbon market: how to achieve cost-effective GHG reductions and generate financing" took place. On 8 June it held a side event on "Building bridges: NAMAs, registries and mitigation support in the post-2012 framework" with panelists from the UK, Saudi Arabia, Korea, the European Commission, Australia, OECD and IEA.
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05-juin-2009
The OECD-IEA "Annex I Expert Group" released 3 new analytical reports on the post-2012 climate change framework currently being negotiated by the UN in the lead-up to COP15 Copenhagen: a) “Greenhouse gas mitigation actions: Measurement Reporting & Verification issues and options”; b) “Linking Mitigation Actions with Mitigation Support in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework”; and c) "Sectoral Approaches and the Carbon Market" considers the carbon market aspects of sectoral approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.
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03-juin-2009
Un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE analyse les performances environnementales de la Finlande. Il fait 43 recommandations, notamment que la Finlande devrait réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre, éviter une plus grande perte de sa biodiversité et protéger la mer baltique.
Ce rapport sera présenté lors d’une conférence de presse le 5 juin 2009 par les ministres finlandais Mme Paula Lehtomäki (Environment) et M. Jan Vapaavuori (Logement); et M. Lorents Lorentsen, Directeur de l’Environnement, OCDE.
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27-nov.-2008
Le changement climatique est une réalité indéniable. Nous devons agir d’urgence pour éviter une accumulation irréversible de gaz à effet de serre (GES) dans l’atmosphère et un réchauffement mondial qui pourraient avoir des conséquences colossales sur l’économie et sur la société dans le monde entier. La présente publication synthétise les analyses conduites dernièrement par l’OCDE, y compris celles concernant le rôle que peut jouer l’innovation technologique et l’impact des politiques visant à limiter les fuites de carbone.
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