Environment

OECD work on environment helps countries design and implement effective policies to address environmental problems and sustainably manage natural resources. It examines the linkages between the environment and economic, sectoral or social concerns in the various key topics below.

FOCUS: Tackling the coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Brief: Environmental health and strengthening resilience to pandemics
  
  
• Brief: From containment to recovery - Environmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  
• 29 May  Register to join the OECD/WWF High-Level Dialogue: Aligning NDCs with a post-COVID world
  
  
• 27 May  Register to join the Green Talks LIVE: Financing water services in Europe now and in the future
  
  
• 20 May  Exploring Options to Measure the Climate Consistency of Real Economy Investments: The Transport Sector in Latvia 
  
  
• 15 May  Working Paper: Labour market consequences of a transition to a circular economy
  
  
• 12 May  Blog: Why is there a shortage of disinfectants during the COVID-19 crisis?
  
  

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• Circular economy
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• Emerging and transition economies
• Environment policy tools and evaluation
• Environmental country reviews
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Gender, inclusiveness and the SDGs
• Green finance and investment
• Green growth and sustainable development
• Greening transport
• Indicators, modelling and outlooks
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• Resource productivity and waste
• Trade and the environment
• Water

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The OECD Green Talks Live webinar series brings world experts together on pressing environmental issues for a global audience:

- These free webinars are open to the general public;

- Participants are welcome to pose questions during the Q&A segment.

• Register for an upcoming webinar or watch the video recordings of the past webinars.

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The Environment Focus Blog aims to increase dialogue on a variety of environmental topics among policy makers, experts and the general public.

Blog authors include OECD policy experts writing about their current field of research reaching out to the wide public across the world to generate discussion.

See a full list of OECD blogs and articles related to the environment.

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» Environment events

» Chemical safety & biosafety events

» Green growth and sustainable development events

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The OECD regularly publishes newsletters featuring the latest publications, analysis, events, Green Talks LIVE webinars, articles and blogs related to environment, chemical safety and biosafety and green growth and sustainable development. Sign up for our newsletters on:

» Environment;

» Chemical safety and biosafety;

» Green growth and sustainable development.

Our books related to environment address the following topics:

• biodiversity, climate change, chemical safety and biosafety, environmental country reviews, data and indicators, emerging and transition economies, green finance and investment, green growth, resource productivity and waste and water.

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» Environment Policy Papers

» Environment Working Papers

» OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers

» Green Growth Papers

» Green Growth Studies

» Trade and Environment Working Papers

The OECD collects and analyses vast amounts of data every year to fuel its research. OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.

» Download it from our OECD.Stat statistical database

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Learn more about the work of the OECD Environment Directorate, who we are and how we work.