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[Last updated 12 May 2008]

Business Environment
Government ministers from around the world have been meeting at OECD headquarters in Paris to talk about crunch issues for the environment. One of the most important: getting business more involved in greening the economy.

Press releases

Meeting of the Environment Policy Committee at Ministerial Level "Environment and Global Competitiveness" [29/04/08]
Ministers to Discuss Environment and Global Competitiveness [22/04/08]
Environment Ministers to meet at OECD headquarters, Paris 28 – 29 April, 2008 [11/04/08]
2008 OECD Environmental Outlook: How much will it cost to address today’s key environmental problems? [05/03/08]
OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: How much will it cost to fix the environment? - 5 March, Oslo [28/02/08]

Meeting Speeches and Statements

Welcome by the Chair, Mr. Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy

Statement by Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary General

Keynote speech by Mr. Zhou Jian, Vice Minister of Environmental Protection, China - Session I

Keynote speech by Mr. MANEE LEE, Minister of Environment, Korea - Session I

Keynote speech by Mr. Josef Pröll, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria - Session III

Keynote speech by Ms. Paula Lehtomäki, Minister for the Environment, Finland - Session III

Keynote speech by Mr. Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South African - Session III

Statement by Belgian Ministry of Environment Sessions I-IV

Statement of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC)

Statement of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)

Statement of Environmental NGOs

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Government ministers from around the world have been meeting at OECD headquarters in Paris to talk about crunch issues for the environment. One of the most important: getting business more involved in greening the economy.

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OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030

Ministers' roundtable on climate change

Environment ministers explain their action