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06-Aug-2008
New products and services are being developed at an increasing rate in the technology-driven global economy. But how can we ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account throughout the life cycle of these new products, from production to disposal?
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10-Jun-2008
Environmental regulators and inspectors from twelve countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia and their counterparts from OECD countries, NGOs and industry will gather in Tashkent to share experience and decide on their joint actions in 2008-2011.
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10-Oct-2007
In Russia 47 million people are exposed to high concentrations of nitrous dioxide. Half the population in rural Tajikistan, and one-third in Moldova, lack access to clean water. Leaded petrol is sold legally in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
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27-Sep-2007
What is the rationale for public environmental expenditure? How can improved management practices contribute to lowering the costs of achieving environmental benefits? A set of practical tools have been developed to support government efforts in implementing good international practices for managing public environmental expenditure programmes.
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21-Sep-2007
Debt-for-environment swaps can help simultaneously reduce fiscal stress, stimulate economic growth and increase domestic resources for environment. This report summarises the major lessons learnt from the experience with designing, negotiating and implementing debt-for-environment swaps in CEE and EECCA countries. The analysis presents a possible model that indebted low-income countries and their creditors could use to channel finance to address environmental problems of international significance.
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05-Sep-2007
The Environment Strategy for countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) was adopted at the 2003 “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference. As a broad strategic framework, it aimed at supporting EECCA countries’ efforts to facilitate partnerships. In Kiev, ministers requested the EAP Task Force to monitor progress on partnerships.
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05-Sep-2007
Poor environmental compliance is symptomatic of policy failure and implies high costs for society, undermines the rule of law, and distorts the level playing field for businesses.
The current report, developed within the framework of the EAP Task Force’s Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN), reviews progress in transposing the Guiding Principles into practice and provides recommendations on future action.
The report argues that EECCA countries need to pursue a better regulation process aimed at ambitious, but also fair, feasible, and clear environmental requirements.
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31-Aug-2007
Water supply and sanitation (WSS) infrastructure in Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia is often critically deteriorated, involving significant risks for human health and the environment. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals on water supply and sanitation is therefore a serious challenge in many countries in the region. Armenia, one of the poorest countries in the region, faces many of these challenges as well as serious financial constraints related to affordability issues in households and public budgets.
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Events
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on 22-Mar-2007
This meeting of water experts was convened to “examine the possible scope of work, the most appropriate methodology for conducting a finance strategy for the water sector in selected country(ies), and the possible establishment of a Member-led Team.
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from 15-Mar-2007 to 16-Mar-2007
The EAP Task Force and the PPC met in Brussels on 15-16 March 2007 to finalise their main substantive inputs to the Belgrade "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference, to be held in October 2007.
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on 13-Mar-2007
The annual meeting of the Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN) in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) will be organised in Brussels on 13th March 2007.
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from 13-Mar-2007 to 14-Mar-2007
An international multi-stakeholder workshop “Environmental Policies, Instruments, and Institutions in EECCA: The Emerging Agenda” will be held on the 13-14 March 2007. Representatives of all major stakeholder groups (government officials, experts, non-governmental organisations, think-tanks, and the business sector) are invited to participate in the workshop.
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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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from 21-Sep-2006 to 22-Sep-2006
The EAP Task Force and PPC met in Berlin on 21-22 September. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Environment of Germany and gathered some 60 participants from EECCA and OECD countries, international and non-governmental organisations.
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from 12-Jun-2006 to 13-Jun-2006
The eighth annual meeting of the Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN) in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) was held in Tbilisi on 12-13th June 2006. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia, and organised by the OECD/EAP Task Force Secretariat. The meeting gathered about 60 participants.
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