13-May-2024
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The OECD DAC measures and monitors development finance targeting climate change objectives using two Rio markers: Climate Change Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation.
19-February-2024
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Read what OECD bloggers have to say about topics as varied as air pollution, biodiversity, climate, environmental policies, gender, green finance, green growth, investment, ocean, waste, water and more. Our latest blog: Charting climate action through data insights!
17-January-2023
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As development agencies switch their emphasis from supporting individual projects to providing support for broad policies and strategies, strategic environmental assessments are becoming more urgent. We work with the Strategic Environmental Assessment Network to produce guidance notes on a more harmonised, effective approach to SEA.
6-December-2022
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This blog looks at the extent to which individuals prioritise the environment over the state of the economy or vice versa and how this relates to individuals’ exposure to extreme weather events or negative labour market conditions.
2-September-2022
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Traditional economic assessments tend to restrict the value of water to its price, whereas water values are multifaceted. Although extreme heat, droughts, and floods have been recurrent in recent years, weather patterns this summer have reached unprecedented limits.
23-December-2021
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Annual plastics production has more than doubled in the last two decades.
22-October-2021
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During the last few decades, the frequency and intensity of natural hazard-induced disasters affecting agriculture have increased dramatically, largely due to climate change. This blog explores the need to transform agricultural and related policies to move from coping to a resilience approach.
14-June-2021
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This blog highlights some personal reflections by Heather Plumpton, Walker Institute, on the recent OECD workshop on approaches to reduce and manage the risks of losses and damages from climate change. Heather highlights how the workshop questioned some of the core concepts and assumptions upon which adaptation research and policy rest.
7-June-2021
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This blog highlights the ways in which climate change will exacerbate the pressures on coastal areas and provides three areas for urgent policy action.
29-April-2021
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This blog discusses the exposure of the financial sector to physical climate risks and sets out three priorities for how sustainable finance can support efforts to build resilience to climate change.