Actualités & Evénements

Les 28 et 29 mai 2009, l’OCDE a organisé une réunion à haut niveau portant sur l’environnement et le développement.

29-mai-2009

Les décideurs ont discuté de questions importantes sur l’adaptation au changement climatique, l’accès à l’eau et à l’assainissement, le développement des capacités pour la gestion de l’environnement et les scénarios de développement sobres en carbone. Ils ont entériné un Texte et un Document d’orientation sur la prise en compte de l’adaptation au changement climatique dans la coopération pour le développement. La réunion a arrêté un ambitieux programme d’action en vue d’approfondir le partenariat entre les deux communautés de l’environnement et du développement.

Three new data sources participate in eChemPortal

18-mai-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.

Documents et rapports sur la biosécurité

15-mai-2009

Tous les documents et rapports peuvent être téléchargé gratuitement à partir de ce site.

Latest Test Guidelines

12-mai-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 

L'atténuation du changement climatique : QUE FAIRE ?

27-nov.-2008

Le changement climatique est une réalité indéniable. Nous devons agir d’urgence pour éviter une accumulation irréversible de gaz à effet de serre (GES) dans l’atmosphère et un réchauffement mondial qui pourraient avoir des conséquences colossales sur l’économie et sur la société dans le monde entier. La présente publication synthétise les analyses conduites dernièrement par l’OCDE, y compris celles concernant le rôle que peut jouer l’innovation technologique et l’impact des politiques visant à limiter les fuites de carbone.

OECD side events at UN Climate Change sessions in Bonn, March-April 2009

07-avr.-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.

Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Integrated Assessment Modelling of Adaptation Costs and Benefits

03-avr.-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.

Launch of the OECD Report “Managing Water for All: an OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing”

18-mars-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.

The Financial and Economic Crisis and Water

18-mars-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.

Expert Meeting “Reform of Administrative Fines for Environmental Offences in EECCA Countries” Tallinn, Estonia, 19-20 March 2009

13-mars-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 .