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Mind-forg’d Manacles – The Constraints to Optimising Urban Transport Policy – Free document

06-Feb-2009

This paper is a contribution to the OECD/ITF Global Forum on Transport and Environment in a Globalising World that was held 10–12 November 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico (www.oecd.org/env/transport/gfsd). It addresses the constraints to optimising urban transport policy.

Managing our future water needs: What can be done to provide the right incentives?

02-Feb-2009

In a world where advance-countries will have to increase their water spending by huge proportions to maintain existing level of service, and the developing countries have huge supply and sanitation challenges ...

Report of the 2nd survey on SMM-Related Activities in OECD Countries

30-Jan-2009

This report provides a synthesis of government responses to the 2008 OECD survey on incentives toward Sustainable Materials Management (SMM).

Data analysis of the identification of correlations between polymer characteristics and potential for health or ecotoxicological concern

30-Jan-2009

This document contains an analysis of data on 205 polymers to identify correlations between polymer characteristics and the potential for health or ecotoxicological concern. (Note: while the term “concern” is used in this report, the analysis is based on the intrinsic properties of the polymers and not exposure or risk.)

Three new OECD Environment Working Papers on Governance and Capacity Development for Natural Resources and Environmental management

29-Jan-2009

In many low-income countries, natural resources (minerals, forests, fisheries, soil and water, etc.) are identified as the engines of economic growth. However, providing economic and policy-relevant information about the value of these resources and their sustainable management is a challenge. Three new reports have just been released: 1) Greening Development Planning ; 2) Integrating Public Environmental Expenditure within Multi-year Budgetary Frameworks ; and 3) Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework .

Advisory Notes on addressing key emerging issues (e.g. climate change adaptation) through Strategic Environmental Assessment

22-Jan-2009

Four specific Advisory Notes provide guidance on how to address a range of key emerging issues through the use of Strategic Environmental Assessment. The Notes supplement the OECD DAC Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA).

Recent OECD Work on Climate Change / Global Warming

20-Jan-2009

The OECD’s objective is to help its member countries prepare for the future by supporting them with sound policy analysis and options to achieve climate change goals in an environmentally-effective and economically-efficient manner. A number of projects are underway to implement this across several OECD Directorates and in the specialised agencies associated with the OECD, such as the IEA and the NEA. This document highlights this work.