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News

2nd preparatory meeting for the Almaty+5 Ministerial Conference on Financing of the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in EECCA countries

07-Mar-2006

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss draft documents and practical arrangements for a Conference of EECCA Ministers of Water, Environment and Economy/Finance as well as their OECD partners to discuss issues of financing the water supply and sanitation sector in EECCA.

Debt-for-Environment Swap in Georgia: Pre-feasibility Analysis, Institutional Options and Potential Project Pipelines

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.

Russian version of the "Environmental Management in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia"

19-Dec-2005

The Russian version of the publication on Environmental Management in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia is now available. For more information, please visit our web-page dedicated to this publication.

EAP Task Force's programme of work for 2006 to facilitate and support the achievement of the EECCA Environment Strategy objectives overall

19-Dec-2005

The programme of work of the EAP Task Force for 2006 to facilitate and support the achievement of the EECCA Environment Strategy overall objectives was endorsed by the EAP Task Force and the Project Preparation Committee (PPC) at their third joint meeting on 16-17 November 2005 in Yerevan (Armenia). The Russian version of the programme work is also available.

Pre-feasibility Study for Debt-for-Environment Swap in the Kyrgyz Republic

24-Nov-2005

This report assesses the feasibility for implementing a debt-for-environment swap between the Kyrgyz Republic and its creditors. It concludes that such a swap could be feasible and mutually beneficial if specified conditions are met. The analysis presents a possible model that other indebted countries and their creditors could use to address environmental problems of international significance. Well-designed projects could simultaneously help to alleviate poverty and improve living standards.


Events

Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative’s EECCA Working Group and the EAP Task Force Environmental Finance and Water Networks, Chisinau, Moldova, 29 March to 1 April 2005

from 29-Mar-2005 to 01-Apr-2005

Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative’s EECCA Working Group and the EAP Task Force Environmental Finance and Water Networks, Chisinau, Moldova, 29 March to 1 April 2005 

Conference of Environment Ministers from countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and their Partners, Tbilisi, October 2004

from 21-Oct-2004 to 22-Oct-2004

the Conference of EECCA Environment Ministers and their Partners took place in Tbilisi (Georgia). It was organised by the Georgian Ministry of Environment in co-operation with the EAP Task Force Secretariat at OECD. More than 150 representatives from all stakeholders attended the Conference. For more information, please visit our page about the Conference .

INECE-OECD Workshop on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Indicators

from 03-Nov-2003 to 04-Nov-2003

Responding to growing worldwide interest in developing and applying environmental compliance and enforcement indicators, the OECD and the INECE organised, on 3rd and 4th November, 2003 in Paris, a workshop which assisted enforcement agencies in designing enforcement and compliance indicators and using them for agencies’ performance assessment.



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