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10-Feb-2009
Water is vital for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. Poor governance and inadequate investment, however, are resulting in large populations not having access to the water services they need. The OECD participated to the 5th World Water Forum held on 16-22 March, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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06-Feb-2009
This paper discusses the environmental impacts of tax incentives for innovation, and the innovation impacts of tax incentives for environmental expenditures, in the Spanish corporate income tax system.
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06-Feb-2009
This paper is a contribution to the OECD/ITF Global Forum on Transport and Environment in a Globalising World that was held 10–12 November 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico (www.oecd.org/env/transport/gfsd). It addresses the constraints to optimising urban transport policy.
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22-Jan-2009
Four specific Advisory Notes provide guidance on how to address a range of key emerging issues through the use of Strategic Environmental Assessment. The Notes supplement the OECD DAC Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).
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20-Jan-2009
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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09-Dec-2008
While political will is necessary to tackle climate change, financial measures are needed to keep down the cost of action said Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General at a high-level meeting of Ministers of Finance in Warsaw, Poland.
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02-Dec-2008
In his introductory remarks to the Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Financing and Pricing Water, M. Gurría declared that good water management is so fundamental to human and economic development, and to the maintenance of ecosystems, that we cannot afford to fail.
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28-Nov-2008
The conference will discuss the key policy conclusions and recommendations emerging from the two-year OECD Horizontal Water Programme. This report will be finalised in light of the discussion at this meeting and launched at the 5th World Water Forum, which will be held in Istanbul, 16-22 March 2009. For additional information regarding the Forum, please visit www.oecd.org/water/forum2008
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20-Nov-2008
As one contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the OECD has published an Insights Book on Sustainable Development: Linking Economy, Society, Environment. Easy to read, no technical jargon, full of practical examples, this can be a textbook for teaching sustainable development at secondary and tertiary levels of schooling.
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Events
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on 05-Oct-2005
A one-day workshop was held in Paris on 5 October 2005 on identifying and overcoming the obstacles to reform of environmentally harmful subsidies based on national case studies in sectors including agriculture, fisheries, energy and transport.
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from 05-Jun-2005 to 06-Jun-2005
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.
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from 16-Jun-2005 to 17-Jun-2005
The OECD, in co-operation with the Finnish Ministry for the Environment, organised a workshop on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and Private Investment. The main purpose of the workshop was to improve understanding on how to promote private investment that contributes to the implementation of MEAs and thus to the broader objective of sustainable development. It explored business opportunities under MEAs and new ways to engage business in MEA implementation.
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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
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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 .
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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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