Environnement - OCDE - La Suède doit continuer d’innover pour conserver un bilan environmental solide, selon l’OCDE

Environnement - OCDE - La Suède doit continuer d’innover pour conserver un bilan environmental solide, selon l’OCDE

La Suède est depuis longtemps engagée pour la protection de l’environnement. Elle a beaucoup réduit ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la pollution atmosphérique et le ruissellement d’azote. Un tiers de ses besoins énergétiques est satisfait par des sources renouvelables. Cependant, même si  elles’est fixée des objectifs ambitieux pour l’avenir, la Suède doit continuer à innover pour les atteindre, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

Le troisième examen environnemental de l’OCDE sur la Suède indique que le pays devra  trouver de nouvelles solutions pour que le coût de sa politique environnementale reste abordable, afin que la population continue de soutenir les objectifs ambitieux du gouvernement tels qu’amener à zéro les émissions nettes de gaz à effet de serre d’ici 2050 et ne plus utiliser de carburants fossiles d’ici 2030.

Air pollution, the invisible killer | OECD Insights Blog

Air pollution, the invisible killer | OECD Insights Blog

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. According to the WHO, more than 3.5 million people are being killed each year by the air that they breathe in urban areas, and the number is rising. Air pollution now kills twice as many people as HIV/AIDS. That’s the stark message from the latest OECD report, The Cost of Air Pollution: Health Impacts of Road Transport.

Promoting Research Excellence - Books - OECD iLibrary

Promoting Research Excellence - Books - OECD iLibrary

National research systems face an increasingly competitive environment for ideas, talent and funds, and governments have shifted funds from institutional core funding to project funding, often on a competitive basis, or reward success in raising third-party funds in performance-based funding schemes. It is in this context that "research excellence initiatives" (REIs) have emerged. This is an instrument designed to encourage outstanding research by providing large-scale, long-term funding to designated research units. They provide funds for research and research-related measures, such as the improvement or extension of physical infrastructure, the recruitment of outstanding researchers from abroad and researcher training.

This report presents new evidence on how governments steer and fund public research in higher education and public research institutions through REIs. The report can help inform discussions on future government policy directions by providing information on how REIs work and on the functioning and characteristics of institutions that host centres of excellence. The findings show some of the benefits to be gained through REIs and note some pitfalls to be avoided.

Source : OECD

Environment at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators

Environment at a Glance 2013: OECD Indicators

This book offers a comprehensive snapshot of key environmental trends in OECD member countries since the early 1990s. Environment at a Glance 2013 contains comparative data and charts on everything from car ownership to fish captures that should be a useful reference tool as governments try to steer their economies in an environmentally sustainable direction, and to realise the associated economic opportunities.

Source : OCED - Read the report

Tableau de bord de l'OCDE de la science, de la technologie et de l'industrie 2013 (OCDE - Octobre 2013)

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2013

Summary in French

 Accéder au texte intégral:
10.1787/sti_scoreboard-2013-en

OECD Communications Outlook 2013

OECD Communications Outlook 2013
DOI: 10.1787/comms_outlook-2013-en

Published every two years, the OECD Communications Outlook provides an extensive range of indicators for the development of different communications networks and compares performance indicators such as revenue, investment, employment and prices for service throughout the OECD area.