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Actualités & Evénements
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10-déc.-2010
OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, declared that "We need a legacy of action in which we take concerted action to mitigate and build sufficient climate resilience to accommodate a further 2 to 3 billion people plus rising living standards across the world."
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10-déc.-2010
"We cannot afford to delay action on climate change. Countries need to act and the meeting in Cancun provides an opportunity to be ambitious in this field. It also provides the leverage to overcome domestic political hurdles and agree on a common multilateral framework with specific commitments, says OECD Secretary-General."
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09-déc.-2010
In his remarks at the OECD side event in Cancún, A. Gurría said that countries need to be ambitious in taking unilateral actions and that a cost-effective approach to reducing emissions could cost just a fraction of a percentage point of GDP per year.
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01-déc.-2010
The Volumes 3 and 4 on "Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: OECD Consensus Documents" are now available. They compile documents issued between 2006 and 2010. These books should be of value to applicants for commercial uses of transgenic organisms (crops, trees, microorganisms), to regulators and risk assessors in national authorities, as well as the wider scientific community.
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02-nov.-2010
(Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships or (Q)SARs are methods for estimating properties of a chemical from its molecular structure. The QSAR Toolbox is a software intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders to apply (Q)SARs to fill data gaps needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. The new version contains many improved tools and databases, especially for the prediction of hazards to human health, and has a more user-friendly interface. The release is part of a collaboration between OECD and the European Chemicals Agency.
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26-oct.-2010
"Incorporating Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Environmental Impact Assessments: Opportunities and Challenges” shows that there is ample scope for employing EIA procedures as a vehicle for enhancing the resilience of projects to the impacts of climate change. While a number of governments have signalled their intent to move in this direction, this assessment could find examples in only three countries of projects that considered climate change impacts and adaptation as part of the EIA.
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26-oct.-2010
“Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models” presents the first inter-model comparison of results on adaptation costs. Results show that all types of adaptation options are important in offsetting some of the adverse impacts of climate change. However, the total costs of climate change are the lowest when both mitigation and adaptation are undertaken in conjunction.
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Croissance verte : la fiscalité écologique peut stimuler l’innovation, déclare l’OCDE
« Pour assurer un avenir plus vert, nous avons besoin de nouvelles technologies permettant d’abaisser le coût des mesures nécessaires pour sauver la planète, a déclaré Angel Gurría, Secrétaire général de l’OCDE. Grâce au transfert d’une partie de la charge fiscale sur la pollution, il sera plus attractif de développer et d’adopter les technologies propres, ce qui favorisera la croissance verte. »
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11-août-2010
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource (ACToR) has been added as a participant in eChemPortal. ACTor makes links available to more than 400 sources of publicly available data on environmental chemicals. Data includes chemical structure, physico-chemical values, in vitro assay data and in vivo toxicology data. The database contains both tabular, quantitative data as well as links to text reports at other sites.
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