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The Environment Directorate provides governments with the analytical basis to develop policies that are effective and economically efficient, including through country performance reviews, data collection, policy analysis, projections and modelling, and the development of common approaches.
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from 07-Dec-2009 to 18-Dec-2009
The impact of climate change on our environment, our economies and our security is the defining issue of our era. OECD is at the forefront of climate change analysis, promoting environmentally and economically rational policies related to adaptation, mitigation, technology, financing and development. The OECD will be present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 7-18 December 2009.
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03-Dec-2009
The OECD/IEA Annex I Expert Group has just released five new papers on: matching support and GHG mitigation actions; how to register GHG mitigation actions post-2012; how to track financial flows; assessing national and sectoral mitigation potential; sectoral approaches and the carbon market. Click on the link and access them all free of charge.
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17-Nov-2009
The OECD is ready to assist countries in their efforts to find lasting solutions to finance action on climate change, building on the long-standing work of the organisation to share country experiences and identify lessons learnt and policy recommendations for good practice.
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03-Dec-2009
OECD published six new Emission Scenario Documents (ESDs) and one revised ESDs as well as one guidance document related to ESD. ESDs describe methods for estimating emissions of chemicals from various industry sectors and from uses of chemicals. Including these new documents, OECD has so far published 21 ESDs and 2 relevant guidance documents. Users of these ESDs are encouraged to provide comments and/or updated information for continuous improvement of ESDs.
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30-Nov-2009
This report examines how biodiversity co-benefits in 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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18-Nov-2009
OECD and UNITAR will hold Awareness-Raising Workshops on Nanotechnology/ Manufactured Nanomaterials for Developing and Transition Countries. These workshops will be organised in conjunction with SAICM UN regional meetings during 2009-2010, under the auspices of the IOMC following a request for action regarding nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. The workshops will inform on potential applications and risks from nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials as well as look for opportunities for awareness raising activities to be undertaken in those countries.
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10-Nov-2009
Based on fears that the competitiveness of their domestic industries will be undermined by weak greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges from developing country trading partners, developed countries are calling for border taxes on carbon. But these fears are often exaggerated, and posturing over border taxes diverts attention away from the fundamental need for broad participation in a climate agreement, according to an op-ed by the OECD Secretary-General published in the Financial Times: "Carbon has no place in global trade rules".
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06-Nov-2009
The OECD hosted two side events at the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona -- the last UNFCCC sessions before COP15 Copenhagen. 1. "Financing for Enhanced Climate Change Action: Mitigation and Adaptation" was organised by climate change experts from the Environment and Development Co-operation directorates; 2. “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Climate Change” was co-hosted by ITU, OECD and GeSI.
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04-Nov-2009
The current economic crisis offers an opportunity to transform Ireland’s growth model and make it stronger, cleaner and fairer. The OECD Secretary-General is presenting 38 recommendations to the Irish government to help move in that direction. Recommendations include:
• Strengthening efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
• Charging households for consumption of water
• Ratifying the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
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23-Oct-2009
As we begin to see signs of economic recovery, policy debates are focusing on what kind of a post-crisis global economy we want. And the answer is “green”, according to the OECD Secretary-General.
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22-Oct-2009
Widespread drought, falling agricultural production and rising sea levels are just some of the devastating effects of climate change graphically illustrated in a new map produced by UK government’s Meteorological Office.
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15-Oct-2009
After a year of pain and pessimism, we are starting to see signs of an economic recovery. Green shoots are sprouting. Governments' bold economic and financial actions of over the past year are beginning to take effect.
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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action Beyond 2012
