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OECD/IEA Annex I Expert Group releases five new papers for COP15 Copenhagen

03-Dec-2009

The OECD/IEA Annex I Expert Group has just released five new papers on: matching support and GHG mitigation actions; how to register GHG mitigation actions post-2012; how to track financial flows; assessing national and sectoral mitigation potential; sectoral approaches and the carbon market. Click on the link and access them all free of charge.

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation

19-Nov-2009

This policy guidance provides essential information and advice on mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development. The objectives are to: i) promote understanding of the implications of climate change on development practice and the need to mainstream adaptation in development co-operation; ii) identify appropriate approaches for integrating adaptation into development policies at national, sectoral, project levels and at local contexts; and iii) identify practical ways for donors to support developing country partners in reducing their vulnerability to climate change.

OECD/Annex I Expert Group side event at the UN Climate Change Talks in Barcelona

30-Oct-2009

The OECD/Annex I Expert Group side event at the UN Climate Change Talks in Barcelona - "Financing for Enhanced Climate Change Action: Mitigation and Adaptation" at 15:30 on 3 November - will discuss the following critical issues with expert speakers and discussants from both Annex I and Non-Annex I countries: Overall financial architecture and MRV of financial support; Delivery of development finance to support climate change action; Matching support with actions and the role of registries.
Please See October Released Papers

The scope for CO2-based differentiation in motor vehicle taxes - In equilibrium and in the context of the current global recession

12-Oct-2009

This paper, prepared by Rana Roy, Consulting Economist, London, UK, addresses the scope for CO2-based differentiation in motor vehicle taxes, both under conditions of equilibrium and in the context of the current global recession.


Events

OECD Conference on the Economics of Climate Change - Friday 18 September

on 18-Sep-2009

As world leaders head into serious discussions in the coming weeks about how to address climate change, new OECD work will inform some of the most contentious issues of the debate – those related to the costs involved.

OECD participated in UN Climate Change Conference "COP14 Poznan", Poland

from 01-Dec-2008 to 12-Dec-2008

The impact of climate change on our environment, our economies and our security is the defining issue of our era. OECD is at the forefront of climate change analysis, promoting environmentally and economically rational policies related to adaptation, mitigation, technology, financing and development. The OECD was present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference.

Ask the economists: Environment - what price a clean planet?

from 19-Mar-2008 to 27-Mar-2008

What needs to be done and who should pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change? Read the questions and answers from the online debate on this issue that took place on Thursday 27 March 2008.



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