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The OECD Workshop on Environmental Innovation and Global Markets, organised in co-operation with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), took place in Berlin, Germany on 20-21 September 2007.

OECD warns climate change is threatening Europe's skiing trade

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13-Dec-2006

Many regions in the Alps had the warmest November on record, delaying the arrival of snow by several weeks and worrying ski operators. As the first flurries are coating Alpine slopes, questions arise: was this balmy autumn an exception or a harbinger of the effects ..

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...

OECD Finds that Biotechnology Contributes to Industrial Sustainability

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19-Nov-2001

Biotechnology has long held out the promise of providing alternative methods of industrial production that are both environmentally friendly and economically efficient, thus breaking the seemingly inevitable ...

Making growth more environmentally sustainable in Germany

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24-Jan-2001

Grant Kirkpatrick, Gernot Klepper and Robert Price

Economics Department working paper 276. This document analyses German environmental policies, including, among others, discussion of air and water quality policy, use of the waste management hierarchy ...

Annex Volume to the Report on Phase II of the OECD Environmentally Sustainable Transport Project

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17-Nov-1999

This includes case studies of phase 2 of the EST project. Teams from nine countries undertook six case studies to determine how EST might be achieved. They concerned respectively the countries of Sweden, ...