Cutting Costs in Chemicals Management

This report analyses the rigorous and comprehensive system for assessing and managing chemicals that helps governments and industry save about EUR 150 million each year, through "work sharing" facilitated by the OECD.

Brazil: joins OECD agreement on mutual acceptance of chemical safety data

Brazil has joined an OECD chemical testing agreement that allows countries to share and accept each other’s results, saving money for governments and industry and reducing the risk of trade disputes.

CCXG work on Technology Innovation, Development and Diffusion

The work on technology aims at improving our understanding of how technology innovation, development and diffusion - and international collaboration - can help change the technologies towards lower carbon intensity and greater resilience.

Related Documents

• Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation (EPTI)
• Taxation, Innovation and the Environment
• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) on the UNFCCC
• OECD Work on Climate Change
• Green Growth

Towards a green economy: How Spain's energy sector can help combat climate change

Our economies need a change of engine. The age of carbon is over. Renewable energies are the only future viable source if we want to protect life. Spain must be at the forefront of this transformation, turning the environment and green growth into its new engine of development.

Summary Report of the Workshop for Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union; Prague-Pruhonice, Czech Republic, 15-17 January 1997

The workshop provided advice on the role and value of a PRTR as a tool for environmental policy and addressed the challenges and opportunities for introducing a system in the region that meets national needs. The meeting agenda and list of participants can be found in Annex 1. A list of papers submitted to the workshop can be found in Annex II.

Guidance Documents and Reports related to (Q)SARs

All products from the OECD (Q)SAR Project such as general guidance documents on (Q)SARs, guidance and training materials for the QSAR Toolbox are freely available.

Comparison of Emission Estimation Methods Used in PRTRs and ESDs

The purpose of this document is to identify the similarities and differences between the emission estimation methods used in PRTR’s and ESD’s. The applicability of PRTR methods to the risk assessments is also evaluated. The study is focused on two sectors: pulp and paper manufacture, and textile wet processing.

Framework for Selecting and Applying PRTR Release Estimation Techniques

This document, Framework for Selecting and Applying PRTR Release Estimation Techniques provides information on: i) the general principles for producing release data; and ii) the selection and application of the various release estimation techniques to different industrial sectors. The document can also be used for estimating transfers of pollutants.

Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)

An introduction to Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) which includes links to further information on the Project and Products.

Exposure Assessment

An introductory page on Exposure Assessment which includes links to the Project and related Products.