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13-Dec-2010
At COP16, Angel Gurría stated that "Green and Growth go well together and can become a win-win outcome for advanced, emerging and developing countries. (...) Cancun should; Cancun must; Cancun can!"
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10-Dec-2010
OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, declared that "We need a legacy of action in which we take concerted action to mitigate and build sufficient climate resilience to accommodate a further 2 to 3 billion people plus rising living standards across the world."
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10-Dec-2010
"We cannot afford to delay action on climate change. Countries need to act and the meeting in Cancun provides an opportunity to be ambitious in this field. It also provides the leverage to overcome domestic political hurdles and agree on a common multilateral framework with specific commitments, says OECD Secretary-General."
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09-Dec-2010
In his remarks at the OECD side event in Cancún, A. Gurría said that countries need to be ambitious in taking unilateral actions and that a cost-effective approach to reducing emissions could cost just a fraction of a percentage point of GDP per year.
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26-Oct-2010
"Incorporating Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Environmental Impact Assessments: Opportunities and Challenges” shows that there is ample scope for employing EIA procedures as a vehicle for enhancing the resilience of projects to the impacts of climate change. While a number of governments have signalled their intent to move in this direction, this assessment could find examples in only three countries of projects that considered climate change impacts and adaptation as part of the EIA.
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26-Oct-2010
“Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models” presents the first inter-model comparison of results on adaptation costs. Results show that all types of adaptation options are important in offsetting some of the adverse impacts of climate change. However, the total costs of climate change are the lowest when both mitigation and adaptation are undertaken in conjunction.
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11-Jun-2010
Many countries have pledged targets or actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Copenhagen Accord. New OECD analysis shows that these pledges go towards but are not ambitious enough to limit long-term temperature rise to 2°C. While not cheap, the costs of these pledges are limited compared to expected economic growth. Ambitious global action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is not only necessary, but also economically rational. Using market-based instruments to implement the pledges also has the potential to generate sizable fiscal revenues.
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04-Mar-2010
Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimating costs, funding, and the international institutional architecture for financing. There is however little emphasis so far on delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at the sub-national level, particularly to target the poor, who are often the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change.
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10-Feb-2010
The OECD’s objective is to help its member countries prepare for the future by supporting them with sound policy analysis and options to achieve climate change goals in an environmentally-effective and economically-efficient manner. A number of projects are underway to implement this across several OECD Directorates and in the specialised agencies associated with the OECD, such as the IEA and the NEA. This document highlights this work.
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03-Feb-2010
After the Copenhagen Accord, the world needs to find an ambitious and legally-binding global agreement on climate change in Mexico, said Mr Gurría during a workshop on climate change organised by the European Union. He added that the EU should continue to play a leading role for the negotiations.
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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action Beyond 2012
