|
|
News & Events
News
|
15-Jun-2009
In 2008, the OECD Working Group on Economic Aspects of Biodiversity undertook a review of country implementation of the Council Recommendation.
|
|
05-Jun-2009
Finland has reduced pollution and improved its environmental quality through pioneering approaches like green taxes. However, it must do more to green its economy by reducing the amount of energy and materials used per unit of GDP, tackling climate change, and addressing health impacts of pollution and management of waste.
|
|
05-Jun-2009
This paper outlines key steps towards the development of a single international carbon price -- including phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, and expanding and linking regional carbon markets through direct linking of existing emission trading systems, scaled-up CDM, use of sectoral crediting mechanisms, and incorporation of the forest sector. It examines the incentives for action, including possible financing flows to support action in developing countries.
|
|
29-May-2009
A new 30-page brochure on the activities of OECD’s Environment, Health and Safety Programme is now available. The brochure describes the work being undertaken in the 2009-2012 programme of work on chemicals and its related programmes and the place of the EHS programme in OECD. It provides an easily accessible overview of the programme for the general public as well as for use in briefing materials for governments and stakeholders. Paper copies can be ordered by sending a message to ehscont@oecd.org.
|
|
18-May-2009
The Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB) managed by the National Library of Medicine in the United States, The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Substance Registry Services (SRS) and Canada’s Existing Substances Assessment Repository (CESAR) were all recently added as new participating data sources in eChemPortal, the Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances. eChemPortal provides direct links to collections of information prepared for government chemical review programmes at national, regional, and international levels.
|
|
15-May-2009
All Documents and Reports on Biosafety can be downloaded free of charge from this website.
|
Latest Test Guidelines
12-May-2009
The following Test Guidelines have been adopted on 3rd October 2008 and are available on SourceOECD.
Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems
TG 226
TG 228
Section 3: Degradation and accumulation
TG 314
TG 315
TG 316
Section 5: Other Test Guidelines
TG 508
Updated Test Guidelines:
Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems
TG 211
Section 4: Health Effects
TG 407
Corrected Test Guideline:
Section 4: Health Effects
TG 425
|
|
07-Apr-2009
OECD held two side events at the UN Climate Change sessions in Bonn. The first, on 31 March, addressed critical questions for the post-2012 climate framework, including mitigation support and finance, and how to ensure mitigation actions can be “measured, reported, and verified”. The second side-event, on 7 April, looked at critical issues for reaching a post-2012 climate deal, including carbon leakage concerns, incentives for action by all major emitters, and the role of sectoral approaches in the carbon market. New analysis by OECD and IEA was presented at the side events.
|
|
03-Apr-2009
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions need to move hand in hand with policies and incentives to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. Adaptation cost curves are estimated for the world, as well as for specific regions. The policy simulations presented in this report show that the costs of inaction are high, and thus it is important to start acting on both mitigation and adaptation now.
|
Top of page
|
|
The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action Beyond 2012
