Sustainable development

Statistics

Water abstractions

This table includes data on water abstractions in million m3 and covers 1980-2007.

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Books

Meeting the Water Reform Challenge

Building on the main water challenges identified by the OECD Environment Outlook to 2050, this report examines financing of the water sector; the governance and institutional arrangements in place; and coherence between water policies and policies in other sectors of the economy.

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Focus

OECD

OECD at Rio+20

OECD’s contribution to the Rio+20 Conference will focus on how to promote greener economies in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.

Environment Ministerial 2012

Environment Ministers reviewed the implementation of the Environmental Strategy, discussed priorities based on the Environmental Outlook to 2050 which is a strong case for green growth policies and adopted a policy statement as input to Rio+20 UN Conference.

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Green Growth Knowledge Platform

The GGKP has been developed in partnership between the GGGI, the OECD, UNEP, and the World Bank, to help address major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice, and to help countries design and implement green growth policy.

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Green growth

The crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed, which takes into account environmental, social and technological considerations.

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Round Table on Sustainable Development (RTSD)

As world economies become more integrated, economic growth has created environmental problems that demand global solutions.

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