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24-Nov-2011
According to OECD’s latest analysis, global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to double in the next 40 years. This would result in a 3-6 degree increase of the average global temperature by the end of the century unless governments take decisive action.
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Main Findings - Strategic Transport Infrastructure Needs to 2030
24-Nov-2011
This report looks at whether international gateway ports and airports and their inland transport connections are adequate to meet future demand and proposes a set of policy options to enhance their contribution to economic and social development. Most of the gateway and corridor infrastructure currently in place could not handle a 50% increase, let alone a doubling or tripling of passengers and freight in 20 years. Many gateways need greater capacity to meet the projected increasing demand from 2010 to 2030. Greater inland transport capacity is needed to match additional gateway capacity.
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22-Nov-2011
The Czech Republic has an energy- and carbon intensive economy. This poses a risk to public health and energy security, increases the burden of agreed emission targets and might also mean foregone opportunities for growth. Strengthening incentives for better use of energy and streamlining sectoral support programs would be essential.
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21-Nov-2011
This OECD workshop brought together leaders from business and government to exchange experience on how to better utilise climate and investment policies to mobilise private capital to support low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure and development. Key focusses of the workshop were to examine the opportunities and challenges of infrastructure investment and identify innovative financial instruments to leverage limited public finance
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18-Nov-2011
The Czech Republic has an energy- and carbon intensive economy, leaving important energy and emission saving opportunities underutilised due to insufficient incentives. This poses a risk to public health and energy security, increases the burden of agreed emission targets and might also mean foregone opportunities for growth. Instruments promoting energy efficiency need strengthening and should be more rigorously evaluated and better coordinated.
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17-Nov-2011
On November 10, OECD/IEA held a workshop to share experiences of existing methodologies to track private sector flows for climate change and how they could be reinforced. The workshop also explored the integration of climate change flows from multilateral development banks into the OECD DAC Creditor Reporting System. The discussions highlighted the complexity of climate finance flows and the difficulty of separating the political and technical aspects of measuring them. Ongoing OECD/IEA work will examine the progress that can be made in the absence of political decisions.
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10-Nov-2011
As the Slovak Republic strives to increase productivity and competitiveness in the recovery from the financial crisis, the OECD Environmental Performance Review of the Slovak Republic recommends that it strengthen environmental policies and institutions, promoting green growth to help achieve its economic goals.
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08-Nov-2011
In recent years Israel has strengthened its environmental policies and now should develop a green growth plan that combines environmental, economic and social policies.
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08-Nov-2011
A Consensus Document on Compositional Considerations for New Varieties of Sugarcane (Saccharum ssp. hybrids), number 23 in the Series on Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds, is now available online. It contains information on the key nutrients, anti-nutrients and toxicants of food and feed obtained from this grass crop. Sugarcane is grown in tropical and sub-tropical regions in more than 100 countries and the sugar produced from it is commonly consumed all over the world.
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Events
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from 14-Oct-2009 to 15-Oct-2009
How can governments best ensure energy security and sustainable energy supplies? What steps are necessary to improve energy efficiency, promote low-carbon technologies and achieve challenging climate change targets? How can these challenges be addressed by both IEA countries and other key energy producing and consuming nations? Energy ministers from the 28 IEA member countries will convene in Paris to share views on these key energy and environment challenges facing the world today.
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on 18-Nov-2009
Following completion of the Futures Project on Infrastructure Needs to 2030 (2005-2007) which covered telecoms, water, electricity and surface transport, the IFP is now launching work on ports, airports and other major infrastructures crossing or connecting continents. The first meeting of the Steering Group on the new project will take place on 19th of November in Paris and will be followed on 20th of November by a special workshop on funding Infrastructures in the future. For Project Proposal click on title.
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from 15-Oct-2009 to 16-Oct-2009
The Annual Meeting of the EAP Task Force was held on 15-16 October 2009 in Paris. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the progress in the implementation of the EAP Task Force's Programme of Work.
A Special Session on Water Supply and Sanitation was held back-to-back with the Task Force Meeting on Friday16 October.
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on 23-Apr-2009
On April 23, a fist Steering Group Meeting under the EUWI National Policy Dialogue in the water supply and sanitation sector of Ukraine was held. This meeting was focused on impact of decentralization and measures to cope with over fragmentation in the water sector.
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on 24-Apr-2009
The dissemination workshop on “Strengthening financial planning and management for WSS in central government, municipalities and utilities of EECCA countries” was held in Kiev, Ukraine on 24 April 2009. The meeting was a capacity development and dissemination workshop where good practices and approaches to improve the financial management of the water sector have been presented. These outputs have been developed in the framework of the EAP Task Force and supported by a TACIS grant.
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on 10-Jun-2009
The main objective of the workshop was to discuss in detail the scope of a survey on the experience of countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) with integrating the environmental sector into medium-term budgeting processes. The workshop was organised on 10 June 2009, in Chisinau (Moldova), back-to-back with the annual meeting of the Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network.
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from 11-Jun-2009 to 12-Jun-2009
Environmental liability regimes and approaches and criteria to assess administrative fines were in the focus of discussions at the annual meeting of the Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network. This meeting took place on 11-12 June 2009 in Chisinau, Moldova. The Network was established back in 1999 and brings together environmental experts from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA).
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from 01-Dec-2008 to 12-Dec-2008
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 was present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference.
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from 23-Oct-2008 to 24-Oct-2008
The next meeting of the EAP Task Force took place on 23-24 October 2008 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss progress in implementing the the EAP Task Force's Programme of Work, and priority areas of work for 2009 and beyond. The meeting started with a special session on how the challenge of institutional development of Environment Ministries in the region could be addressed, drawing on new approaches being employed by development cooperation agencies in OECD countries.
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from 23-Oct-2008 to 24-Oct-2008
Ежегодная Встреча СРГ ПДООС, 23-24 октября 2008 г., Астана (Казахстан) Следующая встреча СРГ ПДООС состоится 23-24 октября 2008 г. в Астане (Казахстан). Главной целью встречи будет обсуждение прогресса в реализации Рабочей программы СРГ ПДООС и приоритетных направлений работы на 2009 г. и последующие годы. Встреча начнется со специального заседания, на котором будет обсуждаться, как решить задачу институционального развития министерств охраны окружающей среды в регионе с использованием новых подходов, применяемых организациями сотрудничества в целях развития стран ОЭСР.
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