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Just published: Inspectors Toolkit

24-Feb-2005

The Inspectors Toolkit has just been published. It covers a wide range of management, procedural and substantive aspects of enforcement and compliance. This comprehensive training and methodological material has been developed by the OECD/EAP Task Force on the basis of best international practice to support improvements and help build the capacity of environmental inspectorates in transition economies.

Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts

17-Dec-2004

Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts

Structural Adjustment in Australian Fisheries

17-Nov-2004

This report discusses the nature and cause of, and potential solutions to, capacity problems in fisheries, using Australian case studies. It is prepared for the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the OECD Fisheries Division.

Agriculture and the environment: lessons learned from a decade of OECD work

15-Nov-2004

This report provides a concise summary of the main lessons learned from a decade (1993-2003) of work on agriculture and environmental policy issues in the OECD, and identifies the main emerging issues and challenges in order to assist policy makers...

Agriculture, trade and the environment: the dairy sector

11-Oct-2004

Agricultural policies affect agricultural production with consequences for the environment. What are the impacts and how might they be affected by further agricultural policy reform? What are governments doing to improve the environmental ...

Fish Piracy: Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

24-Sep-2004

This book gathers the proceedings of an OECD Workshop that took place in April 2004 in Paris on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, a worldwide problem which is increasing in scale.

Biomass and agriculture: sustainability, markets and policies - website

06-Sep-2004

Proceedings from an OECD workshop, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 June, 2003. The workshop papers analyse the socio-economic, environmental and policy impacts of biomass from agriculture, focusing on bioenergy/materials.

ODA-eligibility issues of Public Expenditures under the Clean Development Mechanism

31-Aug-2004

This document outlines the decisions reached at the DAC High Level Meeting on 15-16 April 2004 regarding ODA-eligibility issues of Public Expenditures under the Clean Development Mechanism, as proposed by the DAC Chair.

Agriculture, trade and the environment: the pig sector

30-Jul-2004

Trade liberalisation affects the pattern and structure of agricultural production, with consequences for the environment. But what are these impacts? And do agri-environmental policies affect international competitiveness? This study takes an...

Agri-environmental policy measures: overview of developments

16-Jun-2004

(pdf, 168Kb)  The objective of this paper is to highlight developments in the use of agri-environmental policy measures in OECD countries, including both similarities and differences in the approaches adopted.




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