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07-Nov-2011
OECD analyses how the increasing number of regional and bilateral trade agreements deal with environmental issues. This document sets out a framework for evaluating the implementation of environmental provisions in regional trade agreements. Among the issues addressed are institutional arrangements, co-operation, capacity building, public participation, resolution of differences and assessment.
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26-Oct-2011
A new webpage explaining how-to create links to search directly on eChemPortal has been created to encourage linking back to eChemPortal from other’s webpages.
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25-Oct-2011
This new publication provides a comprehensive overview of key issues in the financing of water and sanitation and presents a number of tools and approaches developed by the OECD to assist policy makers and practitioners in this area.
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14-Oct-2011
Undertaken jointly by the OECD Tourism Committee and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report analyses policies and issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the tourism sector. It provides policy recommendations and identifies priority areas to be included in a framework for action in the area of climate change and tourism.
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12-Oct-2011
Users of eChemPortal are now able to search specific endpoint properties for substances contained in The Ecological Categorization Results from Canada Database. This Database contains the ecological categorization results for substances on the Canadian Domestic substance list and the supporting data on: Inherent toxicity, Persistency and Bioaccumulation.
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06-Oct-2011
As regulators face tighter budgets and chemical companies cut costs to remain competitive, governments increasingly count on OECD’s chemical policies and instruments to cost-effectively ensure that products are safe. "Cutting Costs in Chemicals Management: How OECD Helps Governments and Industry" analyses the rigorous and comprehensive system for assessing and managing chemicals – a system that saves governments and industry about EUR 150 million each year by “work sharing” facilitated by the OECD.
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04-Oct-2011
Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.
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04-Oct-2011
Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion US dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, according to OECD and IEA analyses.
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03-Oct-2011
Improved understanding of the relationship between public policy and environmental innovation is crucial to the design of environmentally effective and economically efficient environmental policies. However, hard evidence remains scarce. In an effort to fill this gap, this series brings together the results of a number of projects undertaken at the OECD Environment Directorate, exploring the links between environmental policy and innovation.
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Events
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from 15-Sep-2008 to 16-Sep-2008
During this summit, key players of the energy industry, governments and the financial world discussed the issue of investment opportunities in clean energy businesses.
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from 03-Jun-2008 to 04-Jun-2008
On 4 June, Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Financing Infrastructure" composed of Messrs. Agustín Carstens, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico; Andrew Hunter, Head, Macquarie Europe; Richard Lavergne, Secretary-General, Observatoire de l’énergie, France; Pierre Lortie, Senior Business Advisor, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (Montreal), Canada; Hamish McRae, Associate Editor, The Independent, United Kingdom. Don't miss the speeches and the pictures of the session.
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from 12-May-2008 to 13-May-2008
The Fourth Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative EECCA Working Group and the EAP Task Force Water Network was held on the 12-13th of May 2008, in Bucharest, Romania with the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development hosting the event.
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Fourth Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative EECCA Working Group and the EAP Task Force Water Network
from 12-May-2008 to 13-May-2008
The Fourth Joint Meeting of the EU Water Initiative EECCA Working Group and the EAP Task Force Water Network will be held on the 12th-13th of May 2008, in Bucharest, Romania with the the Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.
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from 23-Apr-2008 to 25-Apr-2008
The conference explored how improved resource efficiency can reduce negative environmental impacts of resource exploitation, transportation, use and disposal, while at the same time securing adequate supplies of materials to sustain economic growth. It focussed on economic efficiency and environmental effectiveness of resource use, as well as the related development and governance aspects.
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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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on 15-May-2007
The OECD Forum 2007 "Innovation, Growth & Equity" took place in Paris on 14-15 May. Michael Oborne, Director of the IFP, chaired a session on "Infrastructure to 2030: Growth, Innovation and Finance" on 15 May. The press release is available here .
For more information about the Forum, visit the OECD Forum website.
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on 22-Mar-2007
This meeting of water experts was convened to “examine the possible scope of work, the most appropriate methodology for conducting a finance strategy for the water sector in selected country(ies), and the possible establishment of a Member-led Team.
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from 15-Mar-2007 to 16-Mar-2007
The EAP Task Force and the PPC met in Brussels on 15-16 March 2007 to finalise their main substantive inputs to the Belgrade "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference, to be held in October 2007.
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from 21-Sep-2006 to 22-Sep-2006
The EAP Task Force and PPC met in Berlin on 21-22 September. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Environment of Germany and gathered some 60 participants from EECCA and OECD countries, international and non-governmental organisations.
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