OECD Green Growth Newsletter

All issues of the OECD Green Growth Newsletter

Forum mondial sur l'environnement (FMENV)

Le Forum est un lieu qui rassemble des experts des pays membres et des économies non membres afin de partager leurs expériences et d'explorer les questions de politique commune en se concentrant principalement sur ​​la dimension environnementale du développement durable et de ses liens avec les politiques économiques et sociales. Prochain forum sur les nouvelles perspectives de la relation alimentation-eau-énergie, novembre 2014.

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• Comité des politiques d'environnement de l'OCDE (EPOC)

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• Global Forum on Environment (GFENV)

Green growth: chemical safety and biosafety

Predicting the properties of chemicals without animal testing, substitution of hazardous substances, the sustainable use of manufactured nanomaterials or integrated pest management are some examples of the way OECD work on chemical safety and biosafety is contributing to green growth.

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• OECD Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships Project [(Q)SARs]
• Risk management of chemicals
• Safety of manufactured nanomaterials
• ENV IPMHUB

OECD Green Investment Financing Forum

The Green Investment Financing Forum (GIFF) aimed to promote dialogue on the role of green investment banks, which are domestically-focused public institutions that use limited public capital to leverage or “crowd-in” private capital, including from institutional investors, for green infrastructure investment.

Paris Policy Forum - Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia: from concept to implementation

The policy forum officially launches the conceptual framework to the public and offers an opportunity for participants to discuss the key issues for emerging Asia: housing, buildings and energy, land use and transport, water and waste management, green goods and services.

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• Regional Development
• Urban Development
• Cities, Climate Change and Green Growth
• Knowledge Sharing for Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia

International Transport Forum: Transport for a changing world

The ITF is an intergovernmental organisation within the OECD to tackle mobility issues for the 21st century. The Forum acts as a platform to advance transport policy and practice, with a view to ensuring transport's contribution to economic growth, environmental protection, social inclusion and the preservation of human life and well-being. The ITF 2014 annual Summit is being held in Leipzig, Germany on 21-23 may 2014.

Les pays de l'OCDE s'engagent à œuvrer pour un accord sur le climat en 2015

Les 34 pays membres de l'OCDE ont affirmé aujourd'hui leur détermination commune à trouver un accord pour lutter contre le changement climatique à l’occasion des pourparlers de la COP 21 à Paris en 2015. La Colombie et la Lettonie, candidats à l’adhésion à l'OCDE, ont également soutenu la déclaration conjointe lors de la Réunion ministérielle annuelle du Conseil de l'OCDE.

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• OECD諸国は2015年にむけて気候変動への取り組みを確約

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• OECD countries commit to work towards a climate deal for 2015

Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2014: Addressing the social implications of green growth

This year's Forum will examine the distributional consequences of implementing green growth strategies and their impact on employment, skills and income.

Environmental Policies and Risk Finance in the Green Sector: Cross-country Evidence

Risk finance is essential for new ventures to commercialise new ideas and grow, especially in emerging sectors. Yet very little is known about the drivers and characteristics of risk finance in the green sector. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a detailed description of risk finance in the green sector across 29 countries and identifying the role that policies might have in shaping high-growth investments.

Investment for green growth

Making investment and environment policy goals mutually supportive creates both challenges and opportunities for governments and other stakeholders. The OECD analyses key issues of the relationship between investment and environment to help policy makers address these challenges and opportunities.

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• OECD work on green growth