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18-May-2009
The Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB) managed by the National Library of Medicine in the United States, The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Substance Registry Services (SRS) and Canada’s Existing Substances Assessment Repository (CESAR) were all recently added as new participating data sources in eChemPortal, the Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances. eChemPortal provides direct links to collections of information prepared for government chemical review programmes at national, regional, and international levels.
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15-May-2009
All Documents and Reports on Biosafety can be downloaded free of charge from this website.
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Latest Test Guidelines
12-May-2009
The following Test Guidelines have been adopted on 3rd October 2008 and are available on SourceOECD.
Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems
TG 226
TG 228
Section 3: Degradation and accumulation
TG 314
TG 315
TG 316
Section 5: Other Test Guidelines
TG 508
Updated Test Guidelines:
Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems
TG 211
Section 4: Health Effects
TG 407
Corrected Test Guideline:
Section 4: Health Effects
TG 425
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07-Apr-2009
OECD held two side events at the UN Climate Change sessions in Bonn. The first, on 31 March, addressed critical questions for the post-2012 climate framework, including mitigation support and finance, and how to ensure mitigation actions can be “measured, reported, and verified”. The second side-event, on 7 April, looked at critical issues for reaching a post-2012 climate deal, including carbon leakage concerns, incentives for action by all major emitters, and the role of sectoral approaches in the carbon market. New analysis by OECD and IEA was presented at the side events.
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03-Apr-2009
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions need to move hand in hand with policies and incentives to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This report seeks to inform critical questions with regard to policy mixes of investments in adaptation and mitigation, and how they might vary over time. Adaptation cost curves are estimated for the world, as well as for specific regions. The policy simulations presented in this report show that the costs of inaction are high, and thus it is important to start acting on both mitigation and adaptation now.
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18-Mar-2009
One billion people cannot get clean drinking water and 2.5 billion lack access to basic sanitation which cause 1.5 million preventable child deaths per year. While addressing the emergency of the current crisis, we must not forget that water is the most essential good and we should find new and innovative approaches to allow everyone access to water and sanitation, according to the OECD Secretary-General.
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18-Mar-2009
The current crisis provides an impetus to push forward difficult reform, an opportunity that should not be wasted for the water sector, according to Angel Gurría. He affirmed that there were huge opportunities for job-creating and “shovel ready” investments in the water sector, particularly for water saving and the rehabilitation of networks, which require relatively short design and construction planning, compared to other types of infrastructure.
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13-Mar-2009
The meeting of experts from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia(EECCA) and OECD countries served to exchange experiences and discuss different approaches to reforming administrative monetary penalties as a key enforcement tool in EECCA, as well the draft guidance document prepared by the EAP Task Force Secretariat .
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02-Mar-2009
This Guidance Manual assists national governments and competent authorities to implement the OECD control system for transboundary movements of wastes destined for recovery operations which is provided by OECD Council Act C(2001)107/FINAL. It also helps private companies to import and export of recoverable waste in an environmentally sound and economically efficient manner.
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27-Feb-2009
The Guidance Document for using the OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox to develop chemical categories according to the OECD Guidance on Grouping of Chemicals is now available. The (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. This new document specifically provides guidance on how to use the Toolbox to build chemical categories and fill data gaps by read-across or trend analysis according to the OECD Guidance on Grouping of Chemicals
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