OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers

OECD papers on trade and environment, free to access and download, on how trade affects the environment and how environmental concerns affect trade, covering a wide range of issues and countries.

Implementing Regional Trade Agreements with Environmental Provisions: A Framework for Evaluation

OECD analyses how the increasing number of regional and bilateral trade agreements deal with environmental issues. This document sets out a framework for evaluating the implementation of environmental provisions in regional trade agreements.

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• Regional Trade Agreements and Environment

OECD Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen - Launch of OECD Publications

M. Gurría stressed the urgency of water reform, the gap between the funding available and the investment needed, as well as the difficulty to bring together the main actors from different sectors to share the risks and tasks, as illustrated by the two new OECD publications launched that day

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• Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen

Policy Brief: Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation

This policy brief provides a comprehensive overview of key issues in the financing of water and sanitation and presents a number of tools and approaches developed by the OECD to assist policy makers and practitioners in this area.

Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen

Better water management is vital to meet human needs, sustain economic activities, and achieve environmental goals. Yet, governments face challenges in navigating the political economy of reform in the water sector.

Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation: Tools and Approaches, 2011

Providing sustainable drinking water supply and sanitation services requires sound financial basis and strategic financial planning to ensure that existing and future financial resources are commensurate with investment needs as well as the costs of operating and maintaining services.

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• OECD Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen - Opening Remarks
• Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation
• Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach
• The Water Challenge: OECD's Response
• Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation: An OECD Perspective
• Pricing Water Resources and Water and Sanitation Services
• Innovative Financing Mechanisms for the Water Sector

OECD Global Forum on Environment: Making Water Reform Happen - Opening Remarks

A persistent failure to realise the potential for better water management in the face of growing pressures (population growth, urbanisation, economic development, pollution, mismanagement, floods and droughts) attests to the need for water reform in many parts of the world, said M. Gurría.

Below the water line

Investing in and managing water and sanitation is a complex challenge. In the context of the Global Forum on Environment this week, OECD looks at the financial realities of funding water infrastructure.

Государственные финансы и «зеленый рост» в странах ВЕКЦА: Резюме для лиц, принимающих решения, 2011

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OECD Work on Climate Change

Global climate change threatens to disrupt the well-being of society, deter economic development and alter the natural environment, making it a key policy concern of the 21st century.

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