Climate Change

Australia falls behind on easiest greenhouse cuts

AUSTRALIA lags behind most rich nations in taking the easiest steps to make an emissions trading scheme as cheap as possible: becoming more energy efficient at home, work and on the road. Due largely to a love of petrol-guzzling cars and an energy-intensive manufacturing sector, Australia's energy efficiency improved at only a third of the rate of the OECD average between 1990 and 2004. According to a report released today by the Climate Institute, only Canada and the US, among developed countries, use more energy than Australia on the goods and services they produce.

Publication Date: 
14/07/2008
Age (Australia)
Tags:
Climate Change, Green House Gases, Energy Efficiency, World Bank, OECD, Australia
Economy

Emerging patterns in architecture for management of economic assistance and development cooperation

With sharp economic growth, the international focus on

Publication Date: 
01/06/2008
Sachin Chaturvedi
Research and Information System for Developing Countries
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Economy, Economic Development, Aid, International Organisation, OECD, India
Health

The health costs of inaction with respect to air pollution

Air pollution is a major environmental health threat in OECD countries, contributing to a number of illnesses, such as asthma, cancer and premature deaths.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2008
Pascale Scapecchi
OECD
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, RSPM (PM 10), Environmental Health, OECD, India, Global
Climate Change

Transport and energy - The challenge of climate change

For transport, a major contributor to greenhouse gases, the challenge to reduce emissions is immense, particularly as most forecasts see transport activity doubling or tripling in the next 30 years. Fortunately, governments in the OECD area (which is where most greenhouse gases come from) are starting to act, though much more needs to be done. That is why the first International Transport Forum, to be held in Leipzig, Germany, from 28-30 May 2008, will be devoted to the theme

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Jack Short
OECD Observer
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Vehicular Pollution, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Transport, Energy, OECD, Germany
Climate Change

Tackling climate change

A 50% rise in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, higher temperatures, with more droughts and storms harming people, crops and buildings; more animal and plant species becoming extinct under expanding farmland and urban sprawl; dwindling natural resources; a billion more people living in water-stressed areas by 2030, with more pollution, disease and premature deaths ahead.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Angel Gurria
OECD Observer
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266
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Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, OECD, China, India, Developing Countries
Climate Change

Energy and climate change

This study looks at trends in GHG emissions in different regions across the world, and analyses the major drivers. It provides an overview of the policies, strategies and measures being adopted and planned worldwide to combat climate change. It compares the different approaches adopted in different regions and the reasons for differences in emphasis. It assesses the measures in terms of their expected impacts on the key WEC objectives of energy accessibility, availability and acceptability.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
World Energy Council
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, California GHG Emissions Standards, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Energy Policy, Transport, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Energy, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Industry

 Way ahead

Global patterns of funding clearly show that medical education remains very much a state-dominated sector. In countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
Down to Earth
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Canada, Health Education, Education, OECD, Denmark, Cuba, United States Of America (US)
Industry

 Conflict Timber

This term was first coined in 2001 by a UN panel of experts investigating the illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 1998, timber there has helped fund a conflict that has killed around 4 million people. The volume of wood removed by rebel factions, companies and government-armed forces of neighbouring countries is so great that in neighbouring Uganda the market price halved. The UN panel found that the conflict was self-perpetuating: each party had interests in its continuation.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Congo, Forest Products, Wood, Timber Smuggling, UN, OECD, Uganda
Biodiversity

 Sense of service

Caution should be exercised while liberalising the services sector

Publication Date: 
14/10/2005
Shams Kazi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trade, WTO, Panchayats, OECD, NGO
India

 Opting for renewables

According to IEA’s factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2004
Down to Earth
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20040615
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Tags:
Global Warming, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Biomass, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Energy Surveys, Energy Technology, Fossil Fuels, Electricity, Biogas, Legislation, Governance, OECD, Germany, United States Of America (US), India

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