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Wildfires in Europe: towards a “new normal”?

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By Catherine Gamper, Agnes Szuda, OECD Environment, Giulia Bonazzi
| OECD Environment Focus
This blog was originally posted on 22 July 2022 on the OECD Environment Linkedin page. by Catherine Desiree Gamper, Ágnes Szuda and Giulia Bonazzi, OECD Environment Directorate Amidst record-breaking temperatures, wildfires have been raging across Europe. France’s Gironde region has already seen 19,000 hectares of forest destroyed and 34,000 people evacuated from their homes and holiday resorts.
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Déjà vu all over again …. Or is it? Learning from the past to green the COVID-19 recovery

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By Shardul Agrawala, OECD Environment
| OECD Environment Focus
By Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division, OECD Environment As governments rush to commit vast sums of money to respond to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, there are growing calls to “green” these recovery packages. In a way, it’s like déjà vu all over again, to borrow a phrase from baseball legend Yogi Berra, reminiscent of similar calls in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-08.
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Carbon tax, emissions reduction and employment: Some evidence from France

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By Damien Dussaux, OECD Environment
| OECD Environment Focus
By Damien Dussaux, PhD, Environmental Economist, OECD Environment Directorate In September 2019 the French Parliament adopted a law on energy and climate which enshrines into French law the objective of carbon neutrality by 2050, in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Carbon neutrality means reducing carbon emissions and balancing residual emissions by capture and storage.
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EPR of Chile - Press and Twitter review

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By OECD Environment
| storify.com
"The report gives us an external viewpoint on the problems we are discussing, and it helps us put them in the right perspective. This document will also surely help us in practice, as Minister Badenier said during the launch, as a roadmap to improve our environmental policies. (...)" The author analyses OECD's recommendation on environmental justice, and its implications on governance, water allocation, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation.
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Protecting Biodiversity Through Sustainable Events in India

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By OECD Environment, Heidelberg Cement, Martin Kalfatovic, Lonnie Gamble
| wp.me
Posted by rogsimons on May 16, 2013 in General Sustainability, Meetings and Events |One Comment Last year Hyderabad, India was host to the groundbreaking COP11 -Convention on Biological Diversity hosted by the Ministry of the Environment and Forests. Our industrious team in India managed the logistics of more than 11,500 participants and 900 sessions over 11 long days in hand with leading AV provider Dorier Perfectus.
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