Background reading

Meeting Documents | Further Reading | Policy Briefs
Related Events and Websites | Other Articles | Press Releases, Speeches & Statementss

[Last update: 5 May 2008].

Meeting Documents

• Chairs' Summary
• Agenda and Issues Paper
• An OECD Framework for Effective and Efficient Environmental Policies: Overview
• Recommendation of the Council on Resource Productivity [see also C(2008)40].
• Resolution of the Council on Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM).
• Costs of Inaction on Environmental Policy Challenges: Summary Report
• Follow-up to the Four Mandates Given by Ministers at the 2004 Meeting of EPOC at Ministerial Level

Further Reading

Publications and background documents

• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030. See also the Highlights brochure.
• Implementation of the OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century: 2008 Review of Progress for Ministers
• Environment and Globalisation: Background Report for Ministers
• OECD Environmental Indicators 2008
• Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Partnerships Involving Governments from OECD Member Countries

Policy Briefs

• Health and the Environment
• Climate Change: Meeting the Challenge to 2050
• Climate Change Policies
• Putting Climate Change Adaptation in the Development Mainstream
• Biofuels for Transport: Policies and Possibilties
• Preserving Biodiversity and Promoting Biosafety
• The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
• Making Environmental Spending Count
• Feasible Financing Strategies for Water Supply and Sanitation
• Keeping Water Safe to Drink
• Improving Water Management: Recent OECD Experience
• Improving Recycling Markets
• Assessing Environmental Policies
• The Social Dimension of Environmental Policy
• Peer Review: a Tool for Co-operation and Change

Related Events and Websites

• OECD-UNEP Conference on Resource Efficiency, 23-25 April 2008
• OECD Forum 2008: Climate Change, Growth, Stability
• Visit of OECD Sectretary-General in Norway to Launch OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030
• Previous Meetings of the Environment Policy Committee at Ministerial level
• OECD Participation in UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, 3-14 December 2007
• OECD Work on Environment

Other Articles

• Tackling climate change by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD (OECD Observer No. 266, March 2008)
• Eco-innovation, policy and globalisation: Making a world of difference by Nick Johnstone and Ivan Hascic, Environment Directorate (OECD Observer No. 264, December 2007)
• Market power: Can Clean Development Mechanisms work (OECD Observer No. 264, December 2007)
• Pollution: costs of inaction (OECD Observer No. 263, November 2007)
• Innovation, globalisation and the environment, by Brendan Gillespie and Xavier Levlaive, Environment Directorate (OECD Observer No. 261, May 2007)
• 21st century energy: Some sobering thoughts, by Professor Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba, Canada (OECD Observer No. 258/9, December 2006)
• Renewable energy  (OECD Observer No. 257, October 2006)

See also www.oecdobserver.org/environment and www.oecdobserver.org/climatechange.