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Actualités & Evénements
Actualités
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13-déc.-2010
At COP16, Angel Gurría stated that "Green and Growth go well together and can become a win-win outcome for advanced, emerging and developing countries. (...) Cancun should; Cancun must; Cancun can!"
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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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10-nov.-2010
At the Global Green Growth Conference 2010, Angel Gurría pointed out that 'Green Growth has the potential to shape the 21st century', that 'Green is compatible with growth; it is a source of growth.'
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09-nov.-2010
A strong and sustainable world economy, consistent with resilient ecosystems, will not be possible without the active engagement of emerging and developing countries. The Korean government organised a workshop to discuss the Strategy from the perspective of developing countries, in Seoul on 28 October 2010.
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29-oct.-2010
A one-day workshop, aimed at sharing knowledge on Low-Carbon Growth (LCG) amongst countries in the Asia-Pacific region and international donors, was held in Bangkok. It stressed the need for each countries to identify policy measures and pursue their activities to attain low-carbon growth, and for international co-operation to be conducted at the regional scale.
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27-oct.-2010
The Bangkok Call for Action was agreed as a set of recommendations to developing countries and development agencies that fund the response to climate change.
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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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