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Resource productivity and the "3Rs"

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24-May-2008

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

In his speech delivered at the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting 2008, Angel Gurría discussed how promoting resource productivity and the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) can protect the environment while sustaining growth and prosperity.

OECD working party launches safety testing of nanomaterials

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23-Apr-2008

OECD member countries, as well as some non-member economies and other stakeholders, are pooling expertise and funding to test the human health and environmental safety effects of a number of nanomaterials. 

Current Developments in Manufactured Nanomaterials in Japan

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14-Apr-2008

This paper, which was submitted by the Japanese delegation, shows the current developments in nanotechnology in Japan, given at the 3rd Meeting of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, held ...

A New Challenge for the OECD

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04-Dec-2007

Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Addressing Japanese business representatives, Angel Gurría underlined that the OECD is gradually turning into a genuine engine of convergence between developed and developing economies. He stressed important ...

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 ...

Proposal of Upstream Emissions Trading in Japan

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18-Mar-2003

Hidenori Niizawa, Tatsuyoshi Saijo and Akinobu Yasumoto

CCNM/GF/SD/ENV(2003)14/FINAL
Paper prepared for the OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Emissions Trading held in Paris on 17-18 March 2003.