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10-Nov-2006
Seven new studies on climate change, produced under the auspices of the Annex I Expert Group, were launched at a side event at COP12 Nairobi: "Adaptation, Technology and Mechanisms: Recent Work from the Annex I Expert Group on the UNFCCC" was held on Monday 13 November. These papers are available on this very web site: www.oecd.org/env/aixg. The OECD also had an exhibit stand at this major annual UN conference.
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09-Nov-2006
Representatives of OECD member countries and China met in Beijing to review China's environmental performance, in the first official meeting of a formal OECD Committee to take place in China. A speech by OECD's Deputy Secretary-General, Kiyo Akasaka, on this occasion is also available. Agreed conclusions and recommendations will be reflected in the OECD Environmental Performance Review of China to be released in Spring 2007.
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03-Nov-2006
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has welcomed the publication this week of the Stern Review to the UK government on the economic consequences of climate change. The report was compiled by Sir Nicholas Stern, former chief economist at the World Bank.
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04-Oct-2006
The peer review packages for the updated Test Guideline 407, the Hershberger Assay and the Stably Transfected Transcriptional Activation Assay are now available.
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28-Sep-2006
This report analyses the performance of the State Environmental Protection Fund of Ukraine. The OECD Good Practices for Public Environmental Expenditure Management have been used as a benchmark for this evaluation. The Fund has been analysed in terms of environmental effectiveness, good budgetary practices and management efficiency. The Review has identified the strengths and weaknesses in the Fund's governance structure and has proposed possible reform measures for its institutional strengthening.
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OECD urges Korea to do more to protect the environment
21-Sep-2006
Korea should use energy more efficiently and control green house gas emissions more effectively, according to a new OECD report. While the OECD welcomes Korea’s significant progress in tackling environmental challenges over the past decade, it notes that further steps are needed in the interests both of international environmental cooperation and Korea’s economic development.
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05-Jul-2006
The OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals are a collection of the most relevant internationally agreed test methods used by government, industry and independent laboratories to determine the safety of chemicals and chemical preparations, including pesticides and industrial chemicals. They cover tests for the physical-chemical properties of chemicals, human health effects, environmental effects, and degradation and accumulation in the environment and pesticide residue chemistry.
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28-Feb-2006
The first part of this report assesses the feasibility for implementing a debt-for-environment swap between Georgia and some of its creditors. Under certain conditions, such a swap could be feasible and mutually beneficial for both sides. The second part of this study presents five project pipelines in priority environmental sectors that could be co-financed by a debt-for environment swap. Such projects are likely to carry most weight with creditors interested in such swaps.
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26-Jan-2006
The Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment (EDTA) Task Force will speed up its validation and reporting activities for test methods in environmental species during 2006-2007.
This includes test methods already on the workplan of the Test Guidelines Programme in the area of fish testing for potential endocrine disrupters, testing on amphibians for the detection of thyroid disruption, and testing on invertebrates for assessment of ED on development and reproduction.
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