ht Corporate accountability is essential to human rights in the network society By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:47:00 GMT The truth is that human rights are not sustainable, or in some places even possible, in today’s networked society unless public and private actors take responsibility. Governments and corporations alike must commit to design, manage, and govern technologies in a manner that is consistent with international human rights standards. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for Finland By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:44:00 GMT Highlights for Finland from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for Denmark By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:44:00 GMT Highlights for Denmark from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for Estonia By www.oecd.org Published On :: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:30:00 GMT Highlights for Estonia from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for the Netherlands By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:51:00 GMT Highlights for the Netherlands from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for Chile By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:30:00 GMT Highlights for Chile from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht Pensions at a Glance 2013 - Highlights for Slovak Republic By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:46:00 GMT Highlights for the Slovak Republic from Pensions at a Glance which is a comprehensive examination of pension systems in OECD and selected non-OECD countries looking at recent trends in retirement and working at older ages, evolving life expectancy, design of pension systems, pension entitlements, and private pensions. Full Article
ht G20/OECD Report on G20 Investment Strategies: Highlights By www.oecd.org Published On :: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:16:00 GMT The OECD has produced assessments of country-specific investment strategies in G20 countries in order to improve the investment ecosystem, foster efficient infrastructure investment and support financing opportunities for SMEs. This booklet reproduces the highlights of these assessments which have been transmitted to G20 leaders for consideration at their Summit in November 2015.. Full Article
ht Seminar on pension foresight: Envisaging retirement income plans of the future By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:54:00 GMT 21 June 2017, Paris: Co-organised by the International Network for Pensions, Aging, and Retirement Research (INPARR), the OECD and IOPS, this seminar provided a window into the latest thinking and research that sheds light on where pension plans and designs are headed in the future and challenges to their future sustainability and efficiency. Full Article
ht The Application of Behavioural Insights to Financial Literacy and Investor Education Programmes and Initiatives By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 30 May 2018 08:47:00 GMT Behavioural insights have the potential to enhance the effectiveness of financial literacy and investor education initiatives. This IOSCO/OECD report explores the extent to which they are being used, reviews the available literature and presents various approaches for policy makers and practitioners to consider when seeking to change financial behaviour. Full Article
ht (external link to) Labor Migration in Asia – Safeguarding rights from home to the workplace By www.adb.org Published On :: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:52:00 GMT Labor Migration in Asia – Safeguarding rights from home to the workplace Full Article
ht OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 - Luxembourg highlights By www.oecd.org Published On :: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:00:00 GMT This note presents selected country highlights from the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017 with a specific focus on digital trends among all themes covered. Full Article
ht World water week 2012 - Insights Blog: Water stewardship: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:32:00 GMT World water week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views, experiences and practices between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. Full Article
ht OECD Insights: Is this as good as it gets? By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:04:00 GMT The latest OECD Environmental Outlook is equally alarmist about “the consequences of inaction”, to quote the book’s subtitle. Terrestrial biodiversity is projected to decrease by a further 10% by 2050. Full Article
ht OECD Insights: Why biodiversity matters By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:31:00 GMT As we celebrate International Biodiversity Day, the outlook is not very encouraging. Around 12% of birds, 25% of mammals, and at least 32% of amphibians are threatened with extinction over the next century. Humans may have increased the rate of global extinctions by up to 1000 times the “natural” rate typical of Earth’s long-term history. Full Article
ht Better Plays for Better Lives: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, OECD Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:34:00 GMT The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: Consequences of Inaction warns that by 2050, under a worst-case scenario, we could see a 10% biodiversity loss; 2.3 billion more people living in water-stressed areas; and a 50% increase in GHG emissions, primarily caused by a 70% growth in CO2 emissions from energy use. Full Article
ht Reducing fossil fuel emissions isn’t enough, OECD Insights Blog By insightsblog.oecdcode.org Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:25:00 GMT We must aim for their complete elimination by the second half of the century and need to come to grips with the risk of climate change. While many countries have announced ambitious targets to reduce fossil fuel emissions by 2020, and even mid-century, further efforts are needed. Full Article
ht Insights Blog: OECD celebrates World Toilet Day By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:13:00 GMT Issues related to water and sanitation are a priority for the OECD. A number of people working at the OECD are also involved through our War on Hunger Group. For example, last year the Group funded a project in Mozambique to reduce diarrhoea by at least 25% in children under the age of five by training in hygiene and changing current practices. Full Article
ht Blog: Fighting the tide - Preparing for the water-related impacts of climate change By theblogprogress.blogspot.fr Published On :: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:04:00 GMT With headlines of record‑breaking water-related disasters around the world, this blog, written by Kathleen Dominique, OECD Environment Economist, discusses the water impacts of climate change. This post is part of Wikiprogress' series on "water" and the "environment". Full Article
ht Insights Blog: IPCC and climate change risks - What would you do? By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:40:00 GMT The latest Climate Change Report from the IPCC argues that human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems. The report identifies eight major risks with high confidence, and says that each of these risks contributes to one of more of the five “reasons for concern”. Full Article
ht Insight Blog - Wake up and save the coffee: Making development climate-resilient By wp.me Published On :: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:56:00 GMT A new OECD report describes what Ethiopia and Columbia are doing to sustain development in a changing climate. Full Article
ht Managing our natural resources: can we build more with less? - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:00:00 GMT For World Environment Day on 5 June 2014, the OECD Environment Directorate looks at how we use and manage natural resources. Full Article
ht Air pollution, the invisible killer - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:22:00 GMT Today’s post, marking World Environment Day, is from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. Air pollution has become the biggest environmental cause of premature death, overtaking poor sanitation and a lack of clean drinking water. Full Article
ht Message in a bottle: Producers not taxpayers should pay for the waste they generate - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:25:00 GMT Have you ever wondered who was paying to recycle that plastic bottle you just threw away? Full Article
ht There’s no bailout option for climate - Insights Blog By insightsblog.oecdcode.org Published On :: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:30:00 GMT Saving the Earth’s climate is sometimes compared to saving the world’s financial system following the crisis in 2007. But it’s not. The taxpayer saved the financial system by bailing it out a cost of trillions of dollars over a very short period, but there is no bailout option for the climate. Full Article
ht The climate is changing, so should we - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:54:00 GMT The OECD Environment Directorate has produced two videos to explain key climate issues as the UN Climate Summit opens today at UN headquarters in New York. Full Article
ht Behold the power of fungus... and biodiversity offsets - Insights blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:32:00 GMT When you think of biodiversity conservation, you probably think of the classic images: the polar bear, the lion, the elephant, the giraffe. The ecological community likes to call them charismatic megafauna, with only a hint of satire. Full Article
ht The Ripple Effect: Water-Energy-Food Nexus - Insights blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:45:00 GMT The world is facing unprecedented stresses, and we are going to need an unprecedented response. We’re doing our best to help create that response at the OECD. Full Article
ht Can you have your green cake and eat it too? Environmental policies as an ingredient for economic growth - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:13:00 GMT 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. Full Article
ht If the tortoise can do it, anyone can: greening household behaviour - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:32:00 GMT 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? Full Article
ht Seeing paradigm change - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:33:00 GMT 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. Full Article
ht Band-aids won’t save the polar bears: smarter climate adaptation needed - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:00:00 GMT 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. Full Article
ht Climate change: Price carbon now before low cost oil says "ciao" - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:42:00 GMT It’s time for governments to ramp up the development of alternative energies and to nail a price onto every tonne of CO2 emitted. With COP21 taking place in Paris in November, sending the right message on climate change means gradually increasing the cost of CO2 emissions, and creating a strong economic incentive to reduce the carbon entanglement and to move towards a zero-carbon world. Full Article
ht Circular logic: why we don’t have to destroy to develop - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:11:00 GMT When considering a by-product, can this material or waste be used in another industry or in another manufacturing process instead of putting it into the environment, moving “from waste to resources” as the OECD says? Full Article
ht The opportunities and challenges of greener growth: Getting the whole policy package right By www.oecd.org Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:09:00 GMT Climate change and, more generally, environmental damage have quantifiable economic and health costs, which weigh on long-term growth and well-being. If left unchecked, climate change is projected to decrease global GDP by 0.7 to 2.5 % by 2060. At the same time, the costs to society of air pollution already appear substantial–equivalent to some 4% of GDP across OECD countries and even higher in some rapidly developing economies. Full Article
ht The Earth Statement: for an ambitious, science-based, equitable outcome to COP21 in Paris - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:10:00 GMT 2015 is a critical year for humanity. Our civilisation has never faced such existential risks as those associated with global warming, biodiversity erosion and resource depletion. Our societies have never had such an opportunity to advance prosperity and eradicate poverty. We have the choice to either finally embark on the journey towards sustainability or to stick to our current destructive “business-as-usual” pathway. Full Article
ht Let’s talk money: What will it take to save our planet? Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 22 May 2015 15:14:00 GMT OECD can work its hardest to raise awareness on the truths of climate change, but the world won’t see developments in green technology and infrastructure unless we have eager investors backing up investment and research and development in low-carbon technologies. Full Article
ht Climate, Carbon, COP21 and Beyond - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Sat, 30 May 2015 13:45:00 GMT "We absolutely should and must demand a strong deal in Paris". Read the full blog by Chris Barrett, Executive Director, Finance and Economics, European Climate Foundation, and former Australian Ambassador to the OECD. Full Article
ht Saving every drop: How the OECD reduces its environmental footprint - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:26:00 GMT We could spend World Environment Day warning of the doom and gloom of future Earth, but considering how much we have done that already, that’s not going to get us very far as we approach this year’s COP21 in Paris. Instead, we are going to give you a taste on what we do here at the OECD headquarters to help save the environment, taking our own medicine on what we prescribe to governments. Full Article
ht Carbon Pricing: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:32:00 GMT Today, more than 22% of global emissions are covered by a carbon price. Almost 40 countries and over 20 cities, states and provinces use carbon pricing mechanisms or are planning to implement them. The OECD recommends that countries make carbon pricing the cornerstone of climate policy. Price signals sent to consumers, producers and investors alike need to be consistent and facilitate the gradual phase-out of fossil fuel emissions. Full Article
ht Air pollution and diesel: from theory to practice, Insights Blog By wp.me Published On :: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:02:00 GMT The current Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal highlights the difficult reality of making the transition to a low-carbon economy. It also highlights the growing need for governments to make smart policies, based on actual costs. Full Article
ht In the absence of Marty and Doc’s time machine… Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 11:45:00 GMT "Back to the Future" festivities marking 21 October 2015 as the date Marty and Doc travel to the future in the famous film with Michael J. Fox. If only we had a similar time machine allowing us to travel to 2045 to see what the climate has in store to better decide what policies to adopt today. Alas, no time machine has been invented yet but, in the absence of such a cool device, we can rely on climate and economic models... Full Article
ht The Haze Surrounding Climate Mitigation Statistics - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 11:14:00 GMT How have CO2 and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions changed since 1990? Three different visuals tell three very different stories (click on them to see full size). Which perspective offers the most clarity? Full Article
ht OECD Insights on COP21 By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:55:00 GMT Over the past year, OECD Insights has published a series of blogs from contributors inside and outside the Organisation on the issues being debated over the next two weeks at COP21 in Paris. Here they are, in alphabetical order by title. Full Article
ht COP21 was decades in the making, so how do we make future decades work for climate? Insights blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:50:00 GMT Given the years of preparation – and for some OECD colleagues, a life’s work – my hope was for an enduring, ambitious text, helping us to avoid climate catastrophe. My expectation was far less grand, more closely aligned to the reality of getting 195 countries to adopt an agreement with legal force. Full Article
ht Flabber-gassed by our noxious air: can electric vehicles save us? Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:47:00 GMT Paris is a beautiful city but has an ugly problem with air pollution. Using 2 wheels to get to work, one becomes acutely aware of this insidious addiction to cars, and the “essence” of the problem, DIESEL. Full Article
ht Floods, droughts and doubts - Insights Blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:18:00 GMT “If He holds back the waters, there is drought; if He lets them loose, they devastate the land”. To be fair, that was in the days before governments played “a key role in developing targeted policy responses to market failures that impede the mitigation and allocation of drought and flood risks”, as the OECD report on Mitigating Droughts and Floods in Agriculture puts it. Full Article
ht Understanding and Managing the Unequal Consequences of Environment Pressures and Policies - Insights blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 11:36:00 GMT The consequences of degradation of environmental quality as well as the consequences of environmental policies are typically unevenly distributed. In general, poorer countries and lower income households are more severely affected by environmental degradation and at the same time have less capacity to adapt. Full Article
ht Environmental Policies and Economic Performance - Insights blog By oecdinsights.org Published On :: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:27:00 GMT A dirty, rundown environment has quantifiable costs for the economy and the well-being of societies. For example, the welfare costs of air pollution from road transport alone are estimated to amount to around 1.7 trillion USD in OECD countries, 1.4 trillion USD in China and 0.5 trillion in India. Full Article
ht Firm Surveys relating Environmental Policies, Environmental Performance and Innovation: Design Challenges and insights from Empirical Application - Environment Working Paper By dx.doi.org Published On :: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:34:00 GMT This report provides a review of recent firm-level and plant-level surveys containing questions on environmental policies, innovation practices or performance which are relevant for environmental policy analysis and assessment. We specifically focus on the core element that relates environmental policies to environmental and economic performance, namely the adoption of innovative practices and environmental innovations by firms. Full Article