Expert Workshop on Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change, 7-8 April 2008

Adaptation to climate change is now widely recognized as an equally important and complementary response to greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. Adaptation measures are increasingly being put in place in both developing and developed countries, and by bot

OECD Side Event at SB28 sessions, June 2008

OECD Side Event at SB28 sessions, 10 June 2008

Promoting the Use of Performance-Based Contracts between Water Utilities and Municipalities in EECCA

The project on promoting the use of performance-based contracts in the water sector seeks to support selected EECCA municipalities in their efforts to contractualise or to improve the contractual relationship with their water utility.

Environmentally Related Taxes and Tradable Permit Systems in Practice

This document discusses the economic efficiency and practical use of environmentally related taxes, with some differentiation in tax rates, versus tradable permit systems, with some element of grandfathering of permits.

Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremities: Exposure Estimates - Environment Working Paper No. 1

This working paper investigates how climate change is likely to impact each port city’s exposure to coastal flooding by the 2070s, alongside subsidence and population growth and urbanisation.

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Annual 2008 REPIN network meeting (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

Environmental regulators and inspectors from twelve countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia and their counterparts from OECD countries, NGOs and industry gathered in Tashkent to share experience and decide on their joint actions in 2008-2011.

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• Surface Water Quality Regulation in EECCA Countries: Directions for Reform
• Guidance on Measuring Results of Environmental Regulation and Compliance Assurance in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
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• Десятая ежегодная встреча Сети по реализации программ природоохранного регулирования Восточной Европы, Кавказа и Центральной Азии (ВЕКЦА)
• Десятая ежегодная встреча Сети по реализации программ природоохранного регулирования Восточной Европы, Кавказа и Центральной Азии (ВЕКЦА)

Water: an Under-Delivered Promise

In his speech delivered at the Conference of Montreal, Angel Gurría underlined that growing pressures from agriculture, energy production and industries were imperilling our water resources. He affirmed that all countries - OECD and developing countries alike – need to introduce urgently policy reforms and scale-up best practices to avoid dire consequences.

Десятая ежегодная встреча Сети по реализации программ природоохранного регулирования Восточной Европы, Кавказа и Центральной Азии (ВЕКЦА)

Представители регулирующих природоохранных органов и экологические инспекторы из двенадцати стран Восточной Европы, Кавказа и Центральной Азии и их коллеги из стран ОЭСР, НПО и отрасли промышленности соберутся в Ташкенте для обмена опытом и выработки совместных действий в 2008-2011 гг.

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• Annual 2008 REPIN network meeting (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
• Annual 2008 REPIN network meeting (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

List of Manufactured Nanomaterials and List of Endpoints for Phase One of the OECD Testing Programme

OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials has launched a “sponsorship programme” in which countries will share the testing of specific nanomaterials (MNs) at its 3rd meeting (November 2008). 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

Minor Uses

Webpage on Minor Uses.