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15-Jun-2009
Biodiversity policies promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats. In doing so, they create significant public benefits and contribute to social well-being.
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15-Jun-2009
In 2008, the OECD Working Group on Economic Aspects of Biodiversity undertook a review of country implementation of the Council Recommendation.
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18-Mar-2009
One billion people cannot get clean drinking water and 2.5 billion lack access to basic sanitation which cause 1.5 million preventable child deaths per year. While addressing the emergency of the current crisis, we must not forget that water is the most essential good and we should find new and innovative approaches to allow everyone access to water and sanitation, according to the OECD Secretary-General.
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18-Mar-2009
The current crisis provides an impetus to push forward difficult reform, an opportunity that should not be wasted for the water sector, according to Angel Gurría. He affirmed that there were huge opportunities for job-creating and “shovel ready” investments in the water sector, particularly for water saving and the rehabilitation of networks, which require relatively short design and construction planning, compared to other types of infrastructure.
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02-Dec-2008
In his introductory remarks to the Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Financing and Pricing Water, M. Gurría declared that good water management is so fundamental to human and economic development, and to the maintenance of ecosystems, that we cannot afford to fail.
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28-Nov-2008
The conference will discuss the key policy conclusions and recommendations emerging from the two-year OECD Horizontal Water Programme. This report will be finalised in light of the discussion at this meeting and launched at the 5th World Water Forum, which will be held in Istanbul, 16-22 March 2009. For additional information regarding the Forum, please visit www.oecd.org/water/forum2008
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15-Sep-2008
De nombreux gouvernements des pays de l’OCDE ont tenu pour acquis qu’il y aurait toujours suffisamment d’eau. Pour M. Gurría, cela n’est plus vrai et la nécessité d’assurer l’accès à l’eau mettra à l’épreuve notre aptitude à agir ensemble (disponible en anglais et en espagnol).
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Events
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from 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, in cooperation with the World Bank and Agence Française de Développement, will discuss how governments in developing countries can work with local private water companies to provide affordable safe water and basic sanitation, and the role donors, the financial sector and international private water companies should play .
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