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  Sustainability

  Sustainability

  Opinion: Packing your bags? Here are 4 ways to become a sustainable tourist

  27 Jun 2017

  The modern tourist wants to give back to the countries and communities they visit and reduce their impact on the environment. World Tourism Organization Director-General Taleb Rifai, U.N. Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim and U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa explain how to achieve that goal.

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  Aid spending

  Aid spending

  Setting out a new path for development aid

  2 Jun 2016

  Development aid is essential for the poorest and a greener world. That's why it's important that the OECD opens more up for new countries to set out the rules and influence how aid is best spent, writes OECD-DAC Chair Erik Solheim in this exclusive guest column.

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  #WEF16

  #WEF16

  Businesses earning money is good for #globaldev

  20 Jan 2016

  If the private sector doesn't profit from investment in developing countries, we will not be able to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, writes Erik Solheim, chair of OECD's Development Assistance Committee, in this guest column. How is private investment key to development and poverty alleviation?

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  Renewable energy

  Renewable energy

  Germany can do more — and better — for the environment and the world's poor

  27 Nov 2015

  Germany is both applauded and criticized in a review of German development aid, writes Erik Solheim, chair of the Development Assistance Committee at OECD, in this commentary. How can the country do more, better?

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  Erik Solheim on Belgian development aid

  Erik Solheim on Belgian development aid

  'Well-spent' Belgian aid can still do more and better for the poorest nations

  9 Sep 2015

  Belgian aid has helped reduce poverty in the developing world and has created positive outcomes in fragile and conflict states. But it can do more, including by using aid to mobilize more private investments in developing countries, OECD's Development Assistance Committee chair writes in this guest commentary.

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  Erik Solheim on New Zealand development aid

  Erik Solheim on New Zealand development aid

  'New Zealand could do much more of what they do so well'

  22 Jun 2015

  On the release of the OECD-DAC peer review of New Zealand development assistance, its chair, Erik Solheim, explains why Wellington's ODA to small island states has been effective — and why it needs to ramp up development spending to be able to do more for the region.

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  Erik Solheim on emerging donors

  Erik Solheim on emerging donors

  Development cooperation in a new world

  14 May 2015

  Amid an evolving aid landscape, traditional providers of development cooperation and south-south providers have much to learn from each other. An exclusive commentary from OECD-DAC Chair Erik Solheim.

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  Eric Solheim on Lithuania

  Eric Solheim on Lithuania

  Small countries can tackle big problems

  12 May 2015

  Big powers such as the U.S. and China cannot solve all the world's problems. There are a lot of things smaller countries, like Lithuania, can do for the planet, argues OECD-DAC Chair Erik Solheim in this exclusive #KAPTalks commentary.

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  #innov8aid

  #innov8aid

  Let’s do more of what works on the ground

  19 Feb 2015

  Scalable innovative solutions are key to closing remaining development gaps, and they need to be promoted, writes Erik Solheim, chair of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Development Assistance Committee.

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  Erik Solheim on Austrian aid

  Erik Solheim on Austrian aid

  Austrian development assistance supports global public goods

  16 Jan 2015

  In a peer review published yesterday, OECD urged Austria to set a timetable for meeting the 0.7 percent aid target. But Austria could also do so much more to ensure its development assistance would have maximum impact, Erik Solheim writes in this exclusive guest opinion.

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