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11-Sep-2009
Dix nouvelles Lignes directrices et six Lignes directrices mises à jour ont été adoptées par le Conseil de l’OCDE le 7 septembre 2009.
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04-Sep-2009
This paper compares CO2-related tax rate differentiation in motor vehicle taxes in OECD member countries – drawing on information available in the OECD/EEA database on instruments used for environmental policy, www.oecd.org/env/policies/database. It should be read in conjunction with the paper "The scope for CO2-based differentiation in motor vehicle taxes – in equilibrium and in the context of the current global recession", available at www.oecd.org/env/transport.
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25-Aug-2009
In his remarks, Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, to the National Forum on Energy, Environment and Climate Change Policy, affirmed that we need to start producing, transporting, consuming, regulating, governing, even thinking, differently; starting today. Climate change means cultural change.
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20-Aug-2009
This Policy Guidance provides essential information and advice on how to mainstream climate change adaptation into development. The objectives are to promote understanding of the implications of climate change on development, to identify appropriate approaches for integrating adaptation into development policies at national, sectoral, project levels and in urban and rural contexts and to identify practical ways for donors to support developing country partners in their efforts to reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
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L'adaptation au changement climatique et la coopération pour le développement
19-Aug-2009
Ce document d’orientation vise à donner des informations et des conseils sur la façon de prendre en compte l'adaptation au changement climatique dans la coopération au développement. Ses objectifs sont : i) expliciter les incidences du changement climatique sur les pratiques de développement ; ii) recenser les approches pour intégrer l'adaptation dans les politiques de développement aux niveaux national, sectoriel, des projets, et local ; et iii) indiquer comment les donneurs peuvent soutenir les efforts des pays partenaires pour réduire leur vulnérabilité au changement climatique.
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19-Aug-2009
This policy guidance provides essential information and advice on mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development. The objectives are to: i) promote understanding of the implications of climate change on development practice and the need to mainstream adaptation in development co-operation; ii) identify appropriate approaches for integrating adaptation into development policies at national, sectoral, project levels and at local contexts; and iii) identify practical ways for donors to support developing country partners in reducing their vulnerability to climate change.
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12-Aug-2009
The United States Environmental Protection Agency Integrated Risk Information System (US EPA IRIS) has been added as a participant in eChemPortal, offering links to reports on specific substances found in the environment and their potential to cause human health effects.
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05-Aug-2009
This document elaborates on a procedure how data in a validated form can be gathered by companies who need estimating the exposure of users of biocidal products for regulatory purposes. The validity of data is a substantial requirement in order to be able to adequately evaluate risks for human health through the use of biocidal products or as a consequence thereof.
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03-Aug-2009
A second update on developments in the field of regional trade agreements and environment covering the period late 2007 to December 2008, and a complement to the 2007 publication “Environment and Regional Trade Agreements”.
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03-Aug-2009
It is in every country's interest that the deployment of carbon-change-mitigation technologies (CCMTs) be accomplished at the lowest possible cost to society and that their diffusion be rapid.
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Events
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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 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, in cooperation with the World Bank and Agence Française de Développement, will discuss how governments in developing countries can work with local private water companies to provide affordable safe water and basic sanitation, and the role donors, the financial sector and international private water companies should play .
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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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from 15-Jul-2006 to 17-Jul-2006
This year's G8 Summit took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The top priorities laid down by President Vladimir Putin were global energy security, education and fighting infectious diseases. Go here for OECD work on these and other issues discussed at the 2006 Summit.
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from 18-May-2006 to 19-May-2006
Representatives from EECCA Environment Ministries, donor countries, international and non-governmental organisations met in Kiev (Ukraine) on the 18th-19th May to discuss progress in achieving the objectives of the Environment Strategy for EECCA countries.
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from 17-Oct-2005 to 18-Oct-2005
The seventh annual meeting of the EECCA Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network (REPIN) took place on 17-18 October 2005 in Moscow, Russian Federation. The meeting discussed a draft report Review of Environmental Compliance Assurance system in Armenia; reviewed options for financing environmental compliance assurance systems in EECCA, considered draft Guiding Principles of Effective Environmental Permitting Systems, and assessed progress made since the previous REPIN meeting in September 2004 on implementing other projects of the REPIN work programme.
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from 16-Nov-2005 to 17-Nov-2005
The Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe (EAP Task Force) and the Project Preparation Committee (PPC) met in Yerevan (Armenia) on 16-17 November 2005.
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from 17-Nov-2005 to 18-Nov-2005
On the 17-18th of November 2005, the Government of Armenia hosted a conference of Ministers of Economy/Finance, Environment and Water. Ministers met to discuss how to address the critical situation of the water sector in EECCA countries...
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