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.
Brief: Building Back Better: A Sustainable, Resilient Recovery after COVID-19.
OECD work for a sustainable ocean
Environment at a Glance is the OECD's on-line platform for environmental indicators. It gives access to the most recent data through interactive graphics and provides key messages on major environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, water resources, air quality, circular economy and ocean. Read more >
25 climate actions that can change our lives for the better.
Latest news
FOCUS: Tackling the coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Brief: Building Back Better: A Sustainable, Resilient Recovery after COVID-19
- Brief: Environmental health and strengthening resilience to pandemics
- Brief: From containment to recovery - Environmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 16 Sept Green Talks LIVE: Global eChem Portal to Information on Chemical Substances
- 29 July Report: Accelerating Climate Action in Israel - Refocusing Mitigation Policies for the Electricity, Residential and Transport Sectors era
- 29 July Policy Paper: Nature-based solutions for adapting to water-related climate risks
Key topics
- Agriculture and environment
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- Climate change
- Chemical safety and biosafety
- Circular economy
- Consumption, innovation and the environment
- Development and environment
- 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
- The ocean
- Resource productivity and waste
- Trade and the environment
- Water
Green Talks Webinars
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.
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Environment Focus Blog
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.
Events
Newsletters
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;
Videos
Biodiversity
Climate change
Ocean
Indicators
Read our books
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.
Access our data
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.
