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.
From containment to recovery: Environmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
VIDEO - World Water Day 2020: Building a Better Water and Climate Future.
25 climate actions that can change our lives for the better.
Climate: Citing public anger and youth activism, OECD Secretary-General urges governments to heed calls for climate action.
Latest news
- FOCUS Brief: From containment to recovery - Environmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 7 avril Working Paper: Trends in water-related technological innovation: Insights from patent data
- 2 April Working Paper: Long-term low emissions development strategies: Cross-country experience
- 22 March World Water Day: Statement by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría
- 17 March Working Paper: Measuring the climate consistency of real economy investments: The manufacturing industries of Norway
- 13 March Working papers: Enhancing air quality in North East Asia - Japan, Korea, China
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
- 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 aim to increase dialogue on a variety of environmental topics among policy makers, experts and the general public.
- Environmental education: Knowledge is power!
- Carbon tax, emissions reduction and employment: Some evidence from France
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.
Newsletters
The OECD regularly publishes newsletters featuring the latest publications, analysis, events, Green Talks LIVE webinars, articles and blogs related to environment, green growth and sustainable development and chemical safety and biosafety.
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Videos
Biodiversity
Climate change
Gender
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.
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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.
