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News & Events
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02-Feb-2012
Our policy guidance proposes a long-term cyclical approach to enhance capacity for greening development – an important missing link in efforts towards greening development. The guidance outlines several steps to building national capacity for greener planning, budgetary processes and key economic sector strategies. Although partner countries should own these processes, development assistance providers should also strengthen their own capacity to effectively support partner countries.
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06-Dec-2011
New data show that the member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) allocated up to USD 22.9 billion, or 15% of total official development assistance (ODA), to climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries in 2010.
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28-Apr-2011
OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is organising a workshop on "Green Growth and Development" on 28 June. This one-day workshop aims to provide an interactive platform for discussion among representatives from developing countries, environmental specialist from development agencies, and invited guest speakers on the relevance of green growth to developing countries.
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29-Oct-2010
A one-day workshop, aimed at sharing knowledge on Low-Carbon Growth (LCG) amongst countries in the Asia-Pacific region and international donors, was held in Bangkok. It stressed the need for each countries to identify policy measures and pursue their activities to attain low-carbon growth, and for international co-operation to be conducted at the regional scale.
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27-Oct-2010
The Bangkok Call for Action was agreed as a set of recommendations to developing countries and development agencies that fund the response to climate change.
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17-Sep-2010
The DAC Policy Statement on Integrating Biodiversity and Associated Ecosystem Services into Development Co-operation outlines 30 key actions that international donors can help to halt to loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystems. The OECD Development Assistance Committee endorsed this Statement on 15 April, 2010.
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10-Dec-2009
In the lead-up to COP15, there have been renewed calls for developed countries to assist developing countries’ efforts to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions. Recent OECD data show that in 2007 official development assistance (ODA) targeting climate change mitigation amounted to approximately USD 3.8 billion, accounting for 0,4 percent of total bilateral ODA that year.
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08-Dec-2009
“We need action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and we need it now.” - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. In the lead-up to COP15, there have been renewed calls for developed countries to assist developing countries’ efforts to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions.
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30-Oct-2009
The 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.
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20-Aug-2009
This Policy Guidance provides essential information and advice on how to mainstream climate change adaptation into development. The objectives are to promote understanding of the implications of climate change on development, to identify appropriate approaches for integrating adaptation into development policies at national, sectoral, project levels and in urban and rural contexts and to identify practical ways for donors to support developing country partners in their efforts to reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
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Events
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from 19-Oct-2010 to 20-Oct-2010
OECD is co-organizing a regional workshop on "Climate Change Finance and Aid Effectiveness: A country-led approach to strengthening the design of climate change financing modalities" in Bangkok, 19-20 October 2010.
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on 04-Apr-2006
Economic growth and development are intricately linked to the sound management of environmental resources. It is the poorest countries and the poorest people who rely most heavily on environmental resources, and are therefore most affected by their degradation. This Ministerial meeting provided a timely opportunity to discuss the two-way relationship between poverty and environmental degradation and the scope for win-win approaches to address them.
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