Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
SQM_Lithium_Debruyne_ESG in rural event.pdfOECDregions
SQM is a global company involved in strategic industries like health, food, clean energy, and technology. The presentation discusses SQM's sustainable lithium supply and transparent mining assurance. It notes that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. SQM has a strong performance across all business lines, with lithium and derivatives making up 72% of gross profit. SQM is committed to sustainability through initiatives like reducing water use and waste. It has extensive environmental monitoring networks and has significantly reduced its water intensity for lithium production. SQM lithium from Salar de Atacama has one of the lowest environmental footprints in the world.
OECD Responsable Business Conduct_ESG in rural .pptxOECDregions
The document discusses responsible business conduct (RBC) in mineral supply chains. It notes that various industry requirements and regulations drive responsible sourcing in minerals. There is also a need for regional planning in critical raw materials hotspots to address conflicts, corruption, human rights risks and other issues that deter investment and disrupt supply. For example, the city of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a key source of critical raw materials but faces challenges around social license to operate due to corruption, human rights, security and environmental impacts.
OECD _Minig Regions Intiiative_ESG and mining.pptxOECDregions
This document discusses ESG (environmental, social, and governance) initiatives for long-term development in mining regions. It notes that mining regions make up 80% of territory in OECD countries and are home to 30% of the population. ESG investing is growing and investors increasingly consider ESG factors like environmental and social impacts. The document outlines examples of ESG initiatives in mining regions, such as community-led environmental monitoring and supporting local schools. It argues that tailoring ESG guidelines locally and involving communities can help coordinate efforts, avoid negative impacts, ensure continuity of investments, and allow flexible monitoring of long-term effects.
Imerys_Greece_Kefalas_ESG in rural presentation.pptxOECDregions
This document discusses minerals and their importance for human civilization and daily life. It also discusses the company Imerys Greece's efforts in environmental stewardship, social development, and governance. Some key points include:
- Minerals are vital components of the human body and each historical era is named after important minerals extracted. Minerals are also essential for many everyday products.
- Imerys Greece engages in environmental protection efforts like operating local plant nurseries and using local species for land rehabilitation. They have also established new agricultural activities on reclaimed mining land.
- Socially, Imerys Greece helped construct a wastewater treatment plant for a tourist island in partnership with the local municipality. They aim to
Coolgardie municipalitiy_AUS_Trail_ESG in Rural.pptxOECDregions
1) The Shire of Coolgardie in Western Australia is centered in a major mining and infrastructure growth region and plays an important role in local economic development, education, employment, and environmental protection.
2) The Shire aims to align its ESG activities and framework with regional priorities by increasing investment, enhancing local communities and economies, and promoting higher performing operations through transparent impact assessments and strong governance.
3) Partnerships between the Shire, mining sector, allied industries, government, and community groups could support a proposed Green Mining Circular Economy Hub that would position Coolgardie as a leader in sustainability, create opportunities through collaboration, and catalyze a transition to a circular economy.
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
SQM_Lithium_Debruyne_ESG in rural event.pdfOECDregions
SQM is a global company involved in strategic industries like health, food, clean energy, and technology. The presentation discusses SQM's sustainable lithium supply and transparent mining assurance. It notes that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. SQM has a strong performance across all business lines, with lithium and derivatives making up 72% of gross profit. SQM is committed to sustainability through initiatives like reducing water use and waste. It has extensive environmental monitoring networks and has significantly reduced its water intensity for lithium production. SQM lithium from Salar de Atacama has one of the lowest environmental footprints in the world.
OECD Responsable Business Conduct_ESG in rural .pptxOECDregions
The document discusses responsible business conduct (RBC) in mineral supply chains. It notes that various industry requirements and regulations drive responsible sourcing in minerals. There is also a need for regional planning in critical raw materials hotspots to address conflicts, corruption, human rights risks and other issues that deter investment and disrupt supply. For example, the city of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a key source of critical raw materials but faces challenges around social license to operate due to corruption, human rights, security and environmental impacts.
OECD _Minig Regions Intiiative_ESG and mining.pptxOECDregions
This document discusses ESG (environmental, social, and governance) initiatives for long-term development in mining regions. It notes that mining regions make up 80% of territory in OECD countries and are home to 30% of the population. ESG investing is growing and investors increasingly consider ESG factors like environmental and social impacts. The document outlines examples of ESG initiatives in mining regions, such as community-led environmental monitoring and supporting local schools. It argues that tailoring ESG guidelines locally and involving communities can help coordinate efforts, avoid negative impacts, ensure continuity of investments, and allow flexible monitoring of long-term effects.
Imerys_Greece_Kefalas_ESG in rural presentation.pptxOECDregions
This document discusses minerals and their importance for human civilization and daily life. It also discusses the company Imerys Greece's efforts in environmental stewardship, social development, and governance. Some key points include:
- Minerals are vital components of the human body and each historical era is named after important minerals extracted. Minerals are also essential for many everyday products.
- Imerys Greece engages in environmental protection efforts like operating local plant nurseries and using local species for land rehabilitation. They have also established new agricultural activities on reclaimed mining land.
- Socially, Imerys Greece helped construct a wastewater treatment plant for a tourist island in partnership with the local municipality. They aim to
Coolgardie municipalitiy_AUS_Trail_ESG in Rural.pptxOECDregions
1) The Shire of Coolgardie in Western Australia is centered in a major mining and infrastructure growth region and plays an important role in local economic development, education, employment, and environmental protection.
2) The Shire aims to align its ESG activities and framework with regional priorities by increasing investment, enhancing local communities and economies, and promoting higher performing operations through transparent impact assessments and strong governance.
3) Partnerships between the Shire, mining sector, allied industries, government, and community groups could support a proposed Green Mining Circular Economy Hub that would position Coolgardie as a leader in sustainability, create opportunities through collaboration, and catalyze a transition to a circular economy.
OECD Webinar - ESG to deliver well-being in resource-rich regions: the role o...OECDregions
This event aims to understand the increasingly pivotal role of the private sector’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives in shaping the long-term development of resource-rich regions. The workshop brings together a wide range of participants – from the mining and forestry sector to municipal representatives and Indigenous leaders - to hear how the alignment of ESG practices with regional development policies and community-led initiatives can support sustainable growth and resilience at the subnational level.
Agenda_Satelite event_EU Mining Regional Ecosystems_OECD and S3P Mining Indus...OECDregions
Agenda of the Satellite event on EU Mining Regional Ecosystems, co-organized by the OECD and S3P Mining Industry, on 14 November. In the framework of the EU raw materials week
10 EU Mining Regions Kickoff Event Proceedings.pdfOECDregions
The OECD and DG Reform held a two-day kick-off event in Évora, Portugal with representatives from ten EU mining regions to launch their project on enhancing mining regions and supporting the EU's green transition. The project aims to help regions strengthen mineral supply chains, address social challenges, and implement more sustainable mining practices through policy coordination and capacity building. Regional leaders discussed their mining histories and current social and economic challenges, and emphasized the need for job training, social acceptance of mining, and diversification of regional economies.
OECD TSI EU mining regions presentation.pdfOECDregions
The document discusses a project by the OECD to enhance mining regional ecosystems in the EU. It will focus on 10 EU mining regions and aims to improve policy coordination, enabling factors for mining development, sustainable practices, and well-being. Regional profiles will be developed covering innovation, environment/economy, and social acceptance. A synthesis report will provide an overall framework. The timeline includes regional visits through early 2024 to develop profiles, workshops, and a final report by March 2025. The goals are to coordinate policies, promote sustainability, and secure mineral supply in the EU while improving regional well-being.
EU Critical Raw Minerals Act Presentation.pdfOECDregions
The European Critical Raw Materials Act proposes establishing a framework to ensure a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for the European Union. It defines 34 raw materials as critical based on their high economic importance and supply risk. It aims to strengthen the EU's critical raw materials value chain, diversify imports, improve risk monitoring and mitigation, boost circularity and sustainability, and define strategic projects across the value chain to increase EU extraction, processing and recycling capacities. It would also establish a Critical Raw Materials Board to support the European Commission in law's implementation.
Agenda: Kick-off Meeting 21-22 September 2023 Evora, Portugal.pdfOECDregions
This document provides information about a kick-off event for a project to enhance EU mining regions' contributions to the green transition and secure mineral raw material supply. The event will gather representatives from 10 participating regions in Finland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden to discuss the project scope and relevance. The project will support the regions with capacity building, regional frameworks, and policy recommendations over two years. The agenda includes visits to mines in Portugal, panels on challenges and opportunities for mining regions, and discussions on regional priorities and expectations from the project.
The new OECD project “Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably”, financially supported by the European Commission, aims at producing a framework and associated guidelines to manage demographic change at regional and local levels.
The Netherlands: National Program Local Heat TransitionOECDregions
The National Program Local Heat Transition (NPLW) consists of two programs - the Program for Accelerating Neighbourhoods (PAW) and the Expertise Center Heat (ECW) - that support municipalities in accelerating the transition to decarbonized heating in the Netherlands. The NPLW aims to help implement around 3,000 neighborhood transition plans by 2030 to insulate or decarbonize 1.5 million homes, as called for in the country's Climate Accord of 2019. It provides knowledge sharing, stimulates regional collaboration, collects monitoring data, and communicates with municipalities and stakeholders to help different communities transition at various speeds.
Decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands: a neighbourhood approachOECDregions
OECD presentation on decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands: a neighbourhood approach.
About 90% of homes in the Netherlands depend on natural gas for heating. The Netherlands has made a commitment to phase out natural gas by 2050. To achieve the goal, the Netherlands has rolled out a natural gas-free pilot programme in 66 neighbourhoods. These neighbourhood pilot projects enabled municipalities to learn what it takes to start energy transition. Based on a city survey carried out across 26 local governments, key findings from this report call on national and local governments joining up their efforts to take place-based measures.
EC - Coal Regions in Transition - 26th January 2023OECDregions
Andrzej Błachowicz, the Managing Director of the Climate Strategies & International Lead Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition Secretariat of the European Commission, spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023. His presentation focused on accelerating the green transition in mining communities, and included an overview of the EU just transition landscape, policy context, and supporting programs and initiatives such as the European Green Deal and the Just Transition Mechanism. He also highlighted the Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition, which was established in 2017 to support European coal, peat, and oil shale regions with the transition to a low-carbon economy. The initiative provides various activities and programs, including meetings and exchange forums, knowledge products, technical assistance, and international activities. Finally, Błachowicz offered some reflections on the importance of toolkits with measurement tools, which help stakeholders to focus not only on what needs to happen in the transition, but also why.
Voconiq - Measuring your social licence to operate - 26th January 2023OECDregions
Dr. Rolf Fandrich, BD Director & Co-founder of VoconiQ, presented a systematic approach to measuring the 'S' in ESG within the launch event of the OECD toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26th. The focus of his presentation was on measuring a company's social license to operate. He highlighted the challenge of social performance, where despite spending millions on community programs, companies still face work interruptions from the communities they are trying to help. He emphasized the need for data from various sources and industries, identifying material issues for social risk, and analyzing trends over time to identify thresholds for conflict or improvement. Dr. Fandrich also stressed the importance of documenting social performance against actions and contextualizing social risk ratings to allow for meaningful comparisons within and across locations.
Mr. Benjamin Quijandria Diaz, Director of SAMMI Clúster Minero Andino, spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023.
In the presentation, the focus is on promoting a modern and inclusive mining industry that generates economic and social value and becomes a platform for development and prosperity for Peru. This is achieved by strengthening the ecosystem through greater collaboration and promoting associativity, driving the growth of mining suppliers, and supporting the decarbonization process with green hydrogen solutions and management of scope 3 emissions. The presentation also covers greener procurement in the mining industry, with a methodology for measuring scope 3 processes and categories and primary sources of information. The presentation concludes by summarizing the main findings of the exercise.
The Silesian Voivodeship on the way to Community Well-being in Mining Sub-reg...OECDregions
Mrs. Katarzyna Raba-Wróbel, a representative of the Region's Transition Unit in the Department of Regional Develoment and Transition (CC), spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023.
This presentation focuses on the challenges of transition in Silesia, Poland, and explores potential solutions for the region's economy. The speaker highlights that by 2030, it will be necessary to create around 36.5 thousand new jobs, with a particular emphasis on providing opportunities for those from mining-related industries. The presentation also addresses the areas most affected by the negative effects of the energy transition, and proposes ways to adjust the educational offer of vocational schools to meet the needs of the region's economy. The repurposing and utilization of mine and post-mine areas in cities such as Katowice, Rybnik, or Zabrze are also discussed. Lastly, the presentation introduces the Regional Observatory of the Transition Process (ROTP) project, which aims to support the region's transition through research, data collection, and analysis.
OECD Launch Toolkit to Measure Well-being in Mining regions - 26 January 2023OECDregions
Andres Sanabria, an Economist and Policy analyst of the Rural Development Unit at the OECD, presented a PowerPoint on the performance of OECD mining regions in different areas of well-being as compared to non-mining regions. The presentation also included a draft paper for publication that analyzed various dimensions of well-being, such as the share of young population, death rates, GHG emissions, and inclusion of women in the workforce. Sanabria discussed the toolkit of mining well-being, which is a web tool of universal access that allows users to compare and monitor well-being (social, economic, and environmental dimensions) across OECD mining regions.
In addition to the toolkit, the presentation highlighted case studies that provide regional-specific recommendations and support for regions and cities to implement better regional development policies. It also mentioned events and peer-review activities that enable knowledge sharing, advocacy, and dialogue between the public and private sectors and local communities on better policies to enhance regional productivity and well-being. The presentation included a timeline of past and future activities of the initiative.
Sanabria noted that the green transition will further increase the global demand for raw materials and that countries are increasingly prioritizing the strategic autonomy on minerals due to their high concentration. The transition also implies structural changes in some mining economies. Mining is concentrated in certain regions, which shapes regional development, and the presentation discussed some of the megatrends impacting mining regions and cities.
The toolkit is intended for governments, academia, the private sector, and communities and promotes knowledge sharing among regions to identify mining regions in OECD countries and understand well-being standards in mining regions. Its goal is to provide a common methodology and understanding of the strengths and challenges of mining regions to monitor their economic, social, and environmental performance.
Presentation from the kick-off event of the OECD project Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably that was launched on 14 February 2023. Presentation by Ana Moreno Monroy, Regional Inequalities and Demographic Change Programme Manager, OECD.
OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2022OECDregions
Regional economic trends and spatial disparities. While most regions have recovered from the pandemic, only half have achieved full recovery. Regional economic disparities did not increase significantly in 2020. However, within-country regional disparities in GDP have persisted, with productivity in top regions nearly double that of least productive regions. Non-metropolitan regions are no longer catching up to metropolitan regions.
he 13th OECD Rural Development Conference was held in Cavan, Ireland on 28-30 September 2022 under the theme "Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving
Rural Places".
These are the presentations from the Conference parallel session "Innovative Ways to Deliver Education and Skills Training in Rural Areas ".
For more information visit https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/.
OECD Webinar - ESG to deliver well-being in resource-rich regions: the role o...OECDregions
This event aims to understand the increasingly pivotal role of the private sector’s ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives in shaping the long-term development of resource-rich regions. The workshop brings together a wide range of participants – from the mining and forestry sector to municipal representatives and Indigenous leaders - to hear how the alignment of ESG practices with regional development policies and community-led initiatives can support sustainable growth and resilience at the subnational level.
Agenda_Satelite event_EU Mining Regional Ecosystems_OECD and S3P Mining Indus...OECDregions
Agenda of the Satellite event on EU Mining Regional Ecosystems, co-organized by the OECD and S3P Mining Industry, on 14 November. In the framework of the EU raw materials week
10 EU Mining Regions Kickoff Event Proceedings.pdfOECDregions
The OECD and DG Reform held a two-day kick-off event in Évora, Portugal with representatives from ten EU mining regions to launch their project on enhancing mining regions and supporting the EU's green transition. The project aims to help regions strengthen mineral supply chains, address social challenges, and implement more sustainable mining practices through policy coordination and capacity building. Regional leaders discussed their mining histories and current social and economic challenges, and emphasized the need for job training, social acceptance of mining, and diversification of regional economies.
OECD TSI EU mining regions presentation.pdfOECDregions
The document discusses a project by the OECD to enhance mining regional ecosystems in the EU. It will focus on 10 EU mining regions and aims to improve policy coordination, enabling factors for mining development, sustainable practices, and well-being. Regional profiles will be developed covering innovation, environment/economy, and social acceptance. A synthesis report will provide an overall framework. The timeline includes regional visits through early 2024 to develop profiles, workshops, and a final report by March 2025. The goals are to coordinate policies, promote sustainability, and secure mineral supply in the EU while improving regional well-being.
EU Critical Raw Minerals Act Presentation.pdfOECDregions
The European Critical Raw Materials Act proposes establishing a framework to ensure a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for the European Union. It defines 34 raw materials as critical based on their high economic importance and supply risk. It aims to strengthen the EU's critical raw materials value chain, diversify imports, improve risk monitoring and mitigation, boost circularity and sustainability, and define strategic projects across the value chain to increase EU extraction, processing and recycling capacities. It would also establish a Critical Raw Materials Board to support the European Commission in law's implementation.
Agenda: Kick-off Meeting 21-22 September 2023 Evora, Portugal.pdfOECDregions
This document provides information about a kick-off event for a project to enhance EU mining regions' contributions to the green transition and secure mineral raw material supply. The event will gather representatives from 10 participating regions in Finland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden to discuss the project scope and relevance. The project will support the regions with capacity building, regional frameworks, and policy recommendations over two years. The agenda includes visits to mines in Portugal, panels on challenges and opportunities for mining regions, and discussions on regional priorities and expectations from the project.
The new OECD project “Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably”, financially supported by the European Commission, aims at producing a framework and associated guidelines to manage demographic change at regional and local levels.
The Netherlands: National Program Local Heat TransitionOECDregions
The National Program Local Heat Transition (NPLW) consists of two programs - the Program for Accelerating Neighbourhoods (PAW) and the Expertise Center Heat (ECW) - that support municipalities in accelerating the transition to decarbonized heating in the Netherlands. The NPLW aims to help implement around 3,000 neighborhood transition plans by 2030 to insulate or decarbonize 1.5 million homes, as called for in the country's Climate Accord of 2019. It provides knowledge sharing, stimulates regional collaboration, collects monitoring data, and communicates with municipalities and stakeholders to help different communities transition at various speeds.
Decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands: a neighbourhood approachOECDregions
OECD presentation on decarbonising homes in cities in the Netherlands: a neighbourhood approach.
About 90% of homes in the Netherlands depend on natural gas for heating. The Netherlands has made a commitment to phase out natural gas by 2050. To achieve the goal, the Netherlands has rolled out a natural gas-free pilot programme in 66 neighbourhoods. These neighbourhood pilot projects enabled municipalities to learn what it takes to start energy transition. Based on a city survey carried out across 26 local governments, key findings from this report call on national and local governments joining up their efforts to take place-based measures.
EC - Coal Regions in Transition - 26th January 2023OECDregions
Andrzej Błachowicz, the Managing Director of the Climate Strategies & International Lead Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition Secretariat of the European Commission, spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023. His presentation focused on accelerating the green transition in mining communities, and included an overview of the EU just transition landscape, policy context, and supporting programs and initiatives such as the European Green Deal and the Just Transition Mechanism. He also highlighted the Initiative for Coal Regions in Transition, which was established in 2017 to support European coal, peat, and oil shale regions with the transition to a low-carbon economy. The initiative provides various activities and programs, including meetings and exchange forums, knowledge products, technical assistance, and international activities. Finally, Błachowicz offered some reflections on the importance of toolkits with measurement tools, which help stakeholders to focus not only on what needs to happen in the transition, but also why.
Voconiq - Measuring your social licence to operate - 26th January 2023OECDregions
Dr. Rolf Fandrich, BD Director & Co-founder of VoconiQ, presented a systematic approach to measuring the 'S' in ESG within the launch event of the OECD toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26th. The focus of his presentation was on measuring a company's social license to operate. He highlighted the challenge of social performance, where despite spending millions on community programs, companies still face work interruptions from the communities they are trying to help. He emphasized the need for data from various sources and industries, identifying material issues for social risk, and analyzing trends over time to identify thresholds for conflict or improvement. Dr. Fandrich also stressed the importance of documenting social performance against actions and contextualizing social risk ratings to allow for meaningful comparisons within and across locations.
Mr. Benjamin Quijandria Diaz, Director of SAMMI Clúster Minero Andino, spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023.
In the presentation, the focus is on promoting a modern and inclusive mining industry that generates economic and social value and becomes a platform for development and prosperity for Peru. This is achieved by strengthening the ecosystem through greater collaboration and promoting associativity, driving the growth of mining suppliers, and supporting the decarbonization process with green hydrogen solutions and management of scope 3 emissions. The presentation also covers greener procurement in the mining industry, with a methodology for measuring scope 3 processes and categories and primary sources of information. The presentation concludes by summarizing the main findings of the exercise.
The Silesian Voivodeship on the way to Community Well-being in Mining Sub-reg...OECDregions
Mrs. Katarzyna Raba-Wróbel, a representative of the Region's Transition Unit in the Department of Regional Develoment and Transition (CC), spoke at the launch event of the OECD Toolkit to measure well-being in mining regions on January 26, 2023.
This presentation focuses on the challenges of transition in Silesia, Poland, and explores potential solutions for the region's economy. The speaker highlights that by 2030, it will be necessary to create around 36.5 thousand new jobs, with a particular emphasis on providing opportunities for those from mining-related industries. The presentation also addresses the areas most affected by the negative effects of the energy transition, and proposes ways to adjust the educational offer of vocational schools to meet the needs of the region's economy. The repurposing and utilization of mine and post-mine areas in cities such as Katowice, Rybnik, or Zabrze are also discussed. Lastly, the presentation introduces the Regional Observatory of the Transition Process (ROTP) project, which aims to support the region's transition through research, data collection, and analysis.
OECD Launch Toolkit to Measure Well-being in Mining regions - 26 January 2023OECDregions
Andres Sanabria, an Economist and Policy analyst of the Rural Development Unit at the OECD, presented a PowerPoint on the performance of OECD mining regions in different areas of well-being as compared to non-mining regions. The presentation also included a draft paper for publication that analyzed various dimensions of well-being, such as the share of young population, death rates, GHG emissions, and inclusion of women in the workforce. Sanabria discussed the toolkit of mining well-being, which is a web tool of universal access that allows users to compare and monitor well-being (social, economic, and environmental dimensions) across OECD mining regions.
In addition to the toolkit, the presentation highlighted case studies that provide regional-specific recommendations and support for regions and cities to implement better regional development policies. It also mentioned events and peer-review activities that enable knowledge sharing, advocacy, and dialogue between the public and private sectors and local communities on better policies to enhance regional productivity and well-being. The presentation included a timeline of past and future activities of the initiative.
Sanabria noted that the green transition will further increase the global demand for raw materials and that countries are increasingly prioritizing the strategic autonomy on minerals due to their high concentration. The transition also implies structural changes in some mining economies. Mining is concentrated in certain regions, which shapes regional development, and the presentation discussed some of the megatrends impacting mining regions and cities.
The toolkit is intended for governments, academia, the private sector, and communities and promotes knowledge sharing among regions to identify mining regions in OECD countries and understand well-being standards in mining regions. Its goal is to provide a common methodology and understanding of the strengths and challenges of mining regions to monitor their economic, social, and environmental performance.
Presentation from the kick-off event of the OECD project Shrinking Smartly and Sustainably that was launched on 14 February 2023. Presentation by Ana Moreno Monroy, Regional Inequalities and Demographic Change Programme Manager, OECD.
OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2022OECDregions
Regional economic trends and spatial disparities. While most regions have recovered from the pandemic, only half have achieved full recovery. Regional economic disparities did not increase significantly in 2020. However, within-country regional disparities in GDP have persisted, with productivity in top regions nearly double that of least productive regions. Non-metropolitan regions are no longer catching up to metropolitan regions.
he 13th OECD Rural Development Conference was held in Cavan, Ireland on 28-30 September 2022 under the theme "Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving
Rural Places".
These are the presentations from the Conference parallel session "Innovative Ways to Deliver Education and Skills Training in Rural Areas ".
For more information visit https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/.
Presentation by Julie Topoleski, CBO’s Director of Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis, at the 16th Annual Meeting of the OECD Working Party of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
FT author
Amanda Chu
US Energy Reporter
PREMIUM
June 20 2024
Good morning and welcome back to Energy Source, coming to you from New York, where the city swelters in its first heatwave of the season.
Nearly 80 million people were under alerts in the US north-east and midwest yesterday as temperatures in some municipalities reached record highs in a test to the country’s rickety power grid.
In other news, the Financial Times has a new Big Read this morning on Russia’s grip on nuclear power. Despite sanctions on its economy, the Kremlin continues to be an unrivalled exporter of nuclear power plants, building more than half of all reactors under construction globally. Read how Moscow is using these projects to wield global influence.
Today’s Energy Source dives into the latest Statistical Review of World Energy, the industry’s annual stocktake of global energy consumption. The report was published for more than 70 years by BP before it was passed over to the Energy Institute last year. The oil major remains a contributor.
Data Drill looks at a new analysis from the World Bank showing gas flaring is at a four-year high.
Thanks for reading,
Amanda
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New report offers sobering view of the energy transition
Every year the Statistical Review of World Energy offers a behemoth of data on the state of the global energy market. This year’s findings highlight the world’s insatiable demand for energy and the need to speed up the pace of decarbonisation.
Here are our four main takeaways from this year’s report:
Fossil fuel consumption — and emissions — are at record highs
Countries burnt record amounts of oil and coal last year, sending global fossil fuel consumption and emissions to all-time highs, the Energy Institute reported. Oil demand grew 2.6 per cent, surpassing 100mn barrels per day for the first time.
Meanwhile, the share of fossil fuels in the energy mix declined slightly by half a percentage point, but still made up more than 81 per cent of consumption.
Presentation by Rebecca Sachs and Joshua Varcie, analysts in CBO’s Health Analysis Division, at the 13th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists.
Disampaikan pada FGD Kepmen Pertahanan tentang Organisasi Profesi JF Analis Pertahanan Negara
Jakarta, 20 Juni 2024
Dr. Tri Widodo W. Utomo, SH. MA.
Deputi Bidang Kajian Kebijakan dan Inovasi Administrasi Negara LAN RI
Manual on a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to IWRM: Women and corruption in the water sector, SIWI
1. Manual on a human rights-based
approach (HRBA) to IWRM
Women and corruption in the
water sector
OECD WGI 10th biannual meeting
Dr Jenny Grönwall
2. HRBA to IWRM
• HRBA principles
• Water-related human rights under
international law
• The human rights to water and
sanitation
• Tools for ‘taking’ a HRBA with a river
basin perspective
3. Corruption: Relevant dynamics & rationales
PrincipalAgent Model, Fraud Triangle, Institutionalized corruption (corruption as the
norm)
Need or Greed-based?
Adding gender to the equation
Fairer sex or fairer system?
Risk aversion, opportunities and networks
Sextortion: abuse of power where the currency
of the bribe is partly or wholly sexual favours
Empirical data from Bogotá & Johannesburg