Brochure: Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment to Development Co-operation

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10-Apr-2006

This brochure introduces the concept and value of SEA as applied to international development. It summarises the key messages of the DAC publication Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment" .

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development

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17-Nov-2005

Synthesizes insights from six country case studies that review climate change impacts, analyse relevant national plans and aid investments in terms of climate risks, and examine key systems where climate change is closely intertwined with development.

Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction (DAC Guidelines and Reference Series)

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13-Jun-2005

This DAC Reference Document outlines key issues faced when designing Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR). EFR refers to a range of taxation and pricing measures which can raise fiscal revenues while furthering environmental goals.

Sustainable Development: Critical Issues

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05-Nov-2002

This book represents the efforts of the various OECD Directorates and of its affiliated organisations to apply a sustainable development framework in the areas of their particular expertise.

Strategies for Sustainable Development (e-book 73 pages)

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21-Nov-2001

This publication provides policy guidance on good practice in developing and implementing strategies for sustainable development. Many of the issues covered and lessons drawn are of equal relevance to developed countries.

DAC Guidelines for Aid Agencies on Disaster Mitigation

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01-Dec-1994

The Guidelines present the basis issues in a succint formal for non-specialists and formulate a number of recommendations for disaster mitigation measures.

Editor's Choice

Advocates of policy coherence stress the systematic promotion of opportunities to create synergies towards achieving particular objectives in different policy domains. For objectives concerning economic development and the environment, policy coherence would involve avoiding policies that serve to provide a short-term boost to growth, but at the cost of environmental damage that would be (predictably) regretted in the long term.

Reconciling Development and Environmental Goals: Measuring the Impact of Policies

-- OECD Forum -- 3-4 June 2008


Summaries and Speeches