OECD Insights Blog by Simon Upton: Avoiding death by diesel

"It is estimated that air pollution from diesel-fuelled road transport kills 10 times more people each year in France than those who die in road accidents": OECD Insights Blog's post by Simon Upton, head of the OECD Environment Directorate, founder and Chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development, and former New Zealand environment minister.

OECD participation in the 2013 World Water Week

The OECD will participate in the 2013 World Water Week taking place from 1-6 September in Stockholm. Two new OECD Water reports, Water Security: Managing Risks and Tradeoffs and Water and Climate Change Adaptation: Policies to Navigate Uncharted Waters will also be launched by the OECD's Secretary-General, Angel Gurría.

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Financing climate change action

Limiting climate change to 2°C requires a major shift in investment patterns towards low-carbon, climate resilient options. A central challenge is to avoid “lock-in” to high-emission infrastructure and increased vulnerability in the way we develop. The OECD works with governments to promote good practice to scale up and better target public and private finance to support climate-friendly investment.

Climate Change eXplorer: a new way of visualising climate-related data.

This new data visualisation tool brings over 40 different climate-related data sets to life by using animated plots for the period 1990-2010.

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Chinese Corporate Governance for Process Safety (Guidance for Senior Leaders in High Hazard Industries)

These guidelines aim to strike a balance between risk and benefit by drawing the attention of those at the top of industry to the need for high standards of corporate governance in relation to the management of high hazard industries. Chinese version.

Norwegian Corporate Governance for Process Safety (Guidance for Senior Leaders in High Hazard Industries)

These guidelines aim to strike a balance between risk and benefit by drawing the attention of those at the top of industry to the need for high standards of corporate governance in relation to the management of high hazard industries. Norwegian version.

OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox Aquatic toxicity Version 3.1

Strategies for grouping chemicals to fill data gaps to assess acute aquatic toxicity endpoints

OECD QSAR Toolbox; Version 3.1

Strategies for grouping chemicals to fill data gaps to assess genetic toxicity and genotoxic carcinogenicity (where covalent DNA binding is the molecular initiating event)

eChemPortal Vision Statement

Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances, is to be the preferred worldwide source of information about chemicals from authorities and international organisations.

EaP GREEN: Greening economies in the European Union’s Eastern Partnership countries

Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood” (EaP GREEN) programme is being implemented by OECD in cooperation with UNECE, UNEP, and UNIDO to assist the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries in their transition to green economies.

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