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News & Events
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13-Dec-2011
Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change: Approaches to Managing Climate Risks analyses how businesses are managing their climate vulnerabilities, new business opportunities arising due to climate change, factors which affect companies’ engagement, and ways in which governments can encourage adaptation. Monitoring and Evaluation for Adaptation: Lessons from Development Co-operation Agencies assesses frameworks used by development co-operation agencies to monitor and evaluate their adaptation initiatives, and shares lessons learned on the choice and use of indicators.
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12-Dec-2011
A new webpage “Schedule of Assessments” has been created on eChemPortal to lead to existing scheduling information of national/regional and international assessments notified to the OECD by OECD member countries and stakeholders. The links are provided with the aim to assist in avoiding duplication across national/regional programmes in the area of chemical assessment.
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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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05-Dec-2011
The Environment, Health and Safety News is a newsletter issued approximately every eight months. Its purpose is to provide an update on the main events and activities of the OECD Environment, Health and Safety Programme. Information on new publications arising from the Programme as well as dates and venues of upcoming events and meetings are given.
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05-Dec-2011
Le bulletin de la Division Environnement, Santé et Sécurité (EHS) est publié approximativement tous les huit mois. Il a pour but de fournir une mise à jour des événements et des activités du programme de l’OCDE sur l’environnement, la santé et la sécurité. Des Informations sont fournies concernant de nouvelles publications ainsi que les dates et les lieux des prochains événements et réunions.
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01-Dec-2011
Rising global energy demand and the need to drastically cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions require a transformation in the way we produce, deliver and consume energy, according to a new joint report from the OECD and IEA.
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Events
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from 19-Sep-2011 to 21-Sep-2011
This Global on Environment/CCXG seminar brought together experts from a wide range of countries and organisations to discuss issues related to carbon markets and measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of climate change actions and finance. The seminar focussed on four specific topics of relevance to the ongoing climate change negotiations: (i) international assessment and review (IAR) and international consultations and analysis (ICA); (ii) setting baselines; (iii) MRV of finance; and (iv) managing greenhouse gas units from multiple market mechanisms.
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from 21-Sep-2011 to 23-Sep-2011
This Conference took place in Astana (Kazakhstan) on 21-23 September 2011 and covered two main themes: 1) sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems and 2) greening the economy: mainstreaming the environment into economic development.
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from 14-Oct-2010 to 15-Oct-2010
The annual EAP Task Force meeting was held on 14-15 October 2010 in Almaty. The main purpose of the meeting was to review progress achieved in the implementation of the EAP Task Force's Work Programme in 2010 and
to discuss work proposed to be carried out in 2011.
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from 08-Nov-2010 to 09-Nov-2010
The annual REPIN meeting was organised by the OECD/EAP Task Force Secretariat and hosted by the State Environmental Service of Latvia on 8-9 November 2010 in Riga. The meeting was attended by government officials and experts from most of the EECCA countries as well as from Estonia, Latvia and Poland. Representatives of the European Commission, the Regional Environmental Centres (RECs) of Russia and the Caucasus, as well as the Working Group of Environmental Auditing under the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the NGO community were also present.
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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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from 28-Jan-2010 to 29-Jan-2010
The main objective of the meeting is to attract the attention of key stakeholders, foremost EECCA policy-makers, to international “good practices” and tools that can help countries to assess and improve their legal and institutional frameworks for PSP in the water and sanitation sector, and to discuss the reforms that could help to improve the framework for PSP.
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from 07-Dec-2009 to 18-Dec-2009
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 will be present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 7-18 December 2009.
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from 24-Nov-2009 to 25-Nov-2009
The Joint Meeting was held on 24-25 November 2009 in Bucharest, Romania with the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development hosting the event.
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