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• OECD to Host Forum for Addressing Nanotechnology Innovation, Applications, Environment, Health and Safety at NanoBusiness 2008 Conference in New York

  - 2008-04-14

  NEW YORK -- The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced that the OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will host a special panel at the NanoBusiness 2008 conference and exhibition, being held May 4 - 6 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Complete...

  Tags: environment, health care, nanotechnology, OECD

• ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE

  - 2008-01-01

  Consumers * Are you an "eco-shopper," but confused with all the labels and seals and certified logos? Consumers Union - publisher of Consumer Reports - has a Web site that can give you detailed information on various seals and labels you find on products. You can also learn the meanings...

  Tags: agreement, environment, France, Occidental Petroleum Corp., OECD

• Environmental Regulation through Public Disclosure: PRTRs in the Information Age

  - 2008-01-01

  ABSTRACT Pollution Release and Transfer Registers PRTRs are databases maintained to summarize chemical releases to air, water, and soil, and transfers of chemicals off-site for treatment, disposal or recycling. The periodic reporting of data to governmental PRTRs and the subsequent public disclosure herald a new age of a highly efficient...

  Tags: Beck, chemicals, database, environment, OECD, pollution, regulation, U.S., U.S.A.

• Environment

  - 2007-09-01

  The PRC State Environmental Protection Administration SEPA, People's Bank of China, and China Banking Regulatory Commission are urging commercial banks to use environmental compliance as a key factor in preloan risk assessments. This move is meant to provide enterprises with economic incentives to obey environmental rules. SEPA has already listed...

  Tags: compliance, environment, incentive, OECD, SALES, SECURITY, Strategy

• Environment

  - 2007-09-01

  The PRC State Environmental Protection Administration SEPA, People's Bank of China, and China Banking Regulatory Commission are urging commercial banks to use environmental compliance as a key factor in preloan risk assessments. This move is meant to provide enterprises with economic incentives to obey environmental rules. SEPA has already listed...

  Tags: compliance, environment, incentive, OECD, SALES, SECURITY, Strategy

• ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA THREATENED BY POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT

  - 2007-09-01

  An 18-month review by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD reports that China's severely polluted environment has caused "significant damage to human health," as well as the nation's prospects for continued economic expansion. The Chinese government said last year that pollution cost $64 billion in economic losses in...

  Tags: environment, OECD

• China's environment protection efforts 'not sufficient': OECD

  - 2007-07-16

  PARIS AFP — The OECD warned Tuesday that China's breakneck economic growth was wreaking severe damage on the environment and said Beijing's efforts to date to curb pollution had been insufficient. "Rapid economic development, industrialisation and urbanisation have generated severe and growing pressures on the environment resulting in significant...

  Tags: China, environment, OECD

• An Environmental Outlook on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Comparative Advantage, Legitimacy, and Outstanding Questions in the Lead Up to the 2006 Review

  - 2006-07-01

  I. INTRODUCTION The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises MNEs1 of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD2 have been defined as "the only multilaterally endorsed and comprehensive code that governments are committed to promoting" to ensure corporate responsibility.3 The Guidelines can be viewed as the principal soft law tool of...

  Tags: environment, Environmental, Government, OECD, Quality, SOFTWARE, standards

• Taxation, Business Environment And FDI Location In OECD Countries

  BNET - 2006-06-01

  This paper assesses the importance of taxation on foreign direct investment contributing to the literature in two ways. First it relates bilateral FDI Foreign Direct Investment among OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries over the 1990s to a new set of estimates of corporate tax wedges that include...

  Tags: OECD, Environment, Taxation, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance

• OECD Faults U.S. for Lack of Global Leadership on Environment

  - 2006-01-11

  PARIS, France ENS — --> The United States needs to play "a more proactive role in dealing with global environmental concerns," finds a 10 year review of U.S. environmental progress by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD based in Paris. The review team says the United States needs...

  Tags: Benefits, environment, HEALTHCARE, leadership, OECD, SOFTWARE, U.S.