25-February-2015
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The polar bear, floating mournfully away on an ice floe as his habitat melts around him, is perhaps one of the most well-travelled symbols of the impacts of climate change.
24-February-2015
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Our world and its problems should have been watched for long enough. Inequality, debt, financial instability, corruption, conflict, ecosystem damage, waste and poverty have been seen through history.
12-February-2015
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Natural resources provide essential raw materials and other commodities, and are an important source of income and jobs. They also support the provision of ecosystem services necessary to develop human and social capital.
10-February-2015
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Please join me in an ode to the giant tortoise, recently confirmed to be back from near extinction on the Galapagos Espanola Island after conservation work that began forty years ago. Whoever thought this waddly wild wonk would be a model for humans to improve environment through adept household behaviour?
9-February-2015
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This report develops a framework that classifies investments according to different types of financing instruments and investment funds, and highlights the risk mitigants and transaction enablers that intermediaries can use to mobilise institutionally held capital.
3-February-2015
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Climate policy and competitiveness issues have created a new need for international co-ordination, beyond the scope of our current frameworks. There is no need to trade economic growth for environmental stringency. Environmentally stringent policies are an incentive for greater efficiencies which leading edge companies can easily achieve.
27-janvier-2015
Français
Les changements dans la structure du commerce mondial augmenteront les distances de transport de 12 %. La route du Pacifique Nord remplacera la route de l’Atlantique Nord en tant que principale route commerciale.
5-janvier-2015
Français
Récentes parutions : Aperçu des résultats de l'analyse économétrique et les implications de la politique ; rapports sur les déchets ; les transports ; l'énergie ; l'alimentation et l'eau.
19-December-2014
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OECD major events and activities relating to biotechnologies: latest developments are updated biannually in this Newsletter.
18-December-2014
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In today’s hard times, policy-makers can find it difficult to sell their environmental policies. To many, these policies represent a burden on the economy.