OECD Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts 8-9 October 2007

Sustainable development experts from government ministries in OECD capitals met on 8-9 October 2007 in Paris to discuss a range of topics including: 1) how to promote sustainable consumption and production, 2) how to overcome obstacles to implementing national sustainable development strategies, and 3) how to formulate sustainable and coherent development policies. They also developed ways to further mainstream sustainable development perspectives in OECD studies and country reviews.

Please find here:

• the Agenda
• the Powerpoint presentations:
  • Veronique Deli, Environment Policy Committee (EPOC),"Promoting Sustainable Consumption"
  • Richard Lavergne, Vice-Chair, IEA Standing Group on Long-Term Co-operation, "Promoting Sustainable Consumption"
  • France: Christian Brodhag, Interministerial Delegate for Sustainable Development, "French National Sustainable development Strategy, Pairs Review"
  • Netherlands: Inge Lardinois, Co-ordinator for Sustainable Development, Environment Ministry, "Sustainable Development in the Netherlands"
  • Norway: Thorvald Moe, Deputy Secretary General, Ministry of Finance, "The Norwegian National Strategy of Sustainable Development"
  • Belgium: Nadine Gouzee, Task Force on Sustainable Development, "Learning Methods for the Domestic Reviews of Sustainable Development Strategies"
  • Italy: Paolo Soprano, Ministry for Environment and Territory, "Implementing Internal Review of NSDS in Italy"