over 8 years ago // Sustainability
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.
over 9 years ago // Aid spending
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.
about 10 years ago // #WEF16
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?
about 10 years ago // Renewable energy
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?
over 10 years ago // Erik Solheim on Belgian development aid
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.
over 10 years ago // Erik Solheim on New Zealand development aid
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.
over 10 years ago // Erik Solheim on emerging donors
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.
over 10 years ago // Eric Solheim on Lithuania
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.
almost 11 years ago // #innov8aid
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.
about 11 years ago // Erik Solheim on Austrian aid
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.