Recent work on biodiversity - Brochure

This brochure provides an overview of recent and ongoing OECD work on biodiversity. Biodiversity is fundamental to sustaining life and providing critical ecosystem services such as food provisioning, water purification, flood and drought control, nutrient cycling, and climate regulation, amongst many others.

OECD Insights: Is this as good as it gets?

The latest OECD Environmental Outlook is equally alarmist about “the consequences of inaction”, to quote the book’s subtitle. Terrestrial biodiversity is projected to decrease by a further 10% by 2050.

Revised Consensus Document on Compositional Considerations for New Varieties of Soybean [Glycine Max (L.) Merr.]: Key Food and Feed Nutrients, Antinutrients, Toxicants and Allergens

Novel Food and Feed Series: the revised SOYBEAN document on composition (key nutrients, anti-nutrients, toxicants and allergens) is now available. It replaces the original 2001 document. Given the growing importance of soybean commodities in food and feed worldwide, it should be of interest for many readers.

Green Growth and Environmental Governance in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia

This report takes stock of the latest developments in the overall economic and social conditions in EECCA countries, market signals and environmental governance arrangements that may facilitate the shift towards green growth, and discusses possible barriers and measures to overcome them.

Guidance Document for Demonstrating Efficacy of Pool and Spa Disinfectants and Field Testing

This Guidance Document describes how applicants could demonstrate that a proposed new pool and spa disinfectant would satisfy the regulator’s efficacy criteria. While meeting the performance characteristics can be expected to satisfy the regulator’s efficacy requirements, the regulator may choose to consider alternative scientific information and argument aimed at satisfying the efficacy criteria.

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Slovenia 2012

This is the first review of Slovenia's environmental performance. It analyses the country's progress in achieving a range of national objectives and international commitments, and presents 36 recommendations on how its performance could be improved.

Environment: Slovenia needs to green its economic recovery

Slovenia's rich and diverse environment is under pressure from the country’s expanding economy. OECD’s first Environmental Performance Review of Slovenia says that greening growth, including though green tax reform, better use of public and private finance, could help Slovenia.

Joint Agency Paper - Poverty and Climate Change - Side Event SB-18

This is an ENB article on the presentation of the joint agency paper "Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation" on 9 June 2003

Related Documents

• Development and Climate Change: Joint Agency Paper - Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor - Part I
• Development and Climate Change: Joint Agency Paper - Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor - Part II

Scaling-up Market Mechanisms

There is growing interest in “scaling-up” GHG mitigation actions and the market mechanisms that support these actions. One way of doing this would be to encourage action at the sectoral level. The objective of the work on sectoral approaches is to explore options under the UNFCCC.

Related Documents

• Carbon Markets
• Financing Climate Change
• Project-based Mechanisms (JI & CDM)
• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on the UNFCCC
• Economics of Climate Change Mitigation

Environment: Germany, a laboratory for green growth

Germany is successfully limiting the amount of carbon, energy and resources required to grow its economy. Though the public is generally satisfied with the level of environmental quality, the OECD’s Environmental Performance Review of Germany warns that ch

Also Available

• Umwelt: Deutschland ist Labor für grünes Wachstum