The OECD climate change work is focusing on how to move countries to a low-carbon and climate resilient pathway, and how to improve the effectiveness of the global climate regime.
OECD Environment Data Portal
The OECD Environment Data Portal includes selected data and indicators on air and climate, forest, waste and water. The data cover OECD member countries, as well as partner economies including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.
Statistics on air and climate, biodiversity, environmental expenditures and revenues, environmental Policy Stringency, forest, green growth, instruments used for enviornmental policy, land resources, patents, waste, water and the OECD Inventory of Support Measures for Fossils Fuels:
Focus
The Paris Agreement demands climate action
by Simon Upton, OECD Environment Director
In a remarkable show of solidarity, 177 countries have now signed the Paris Agreement and 16 of them have already deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval. However, the jury remains out on whether countries will scale up their action sufficiently quickly to achieve the Paris Agreement’s long-term aims to limit the extent of climate change to “well below 2°C”.
Latest News
- OECD’s Gurría reaffirms need for global cooperation amid progress at G20 Summit - 8 July
- Statement from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría on the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change - 2 June 2017
- Business brief: ENGIE: Enabling the energy transition - 2017 OECD Forum
- Release - OECD report Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth - 23 May 2017
- Release - OECD report Mobilising Bond Markets for a Low-Carbon Transition
- Media release - More effort needed to curtail CO2 emissions in transport
- Event - OECD at COP22, Morocco - 5-17 November 2016
- Event - 2016 Environment Ministerial - Opening remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
- Carbon pricing efforts are falling short, but even modest collective action can deliver significant progress, says OECD
- Release of Effective Carbon Rates - Pricing CO2 through Taxes and Emissions Trading Systems
- OECD welcomes ground-breaking peer reviews by China and US of their fossil fuel subsidies
- Making the Paris Agreement a Reality, Remarks by Angel Gurría, at Petersberg Climate Dialogue
- Putting a price on carbon: Building on the foundation for a greener economy, by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
- Is there ever a right time for climate action? by Simon Upton, OECD Environment Director
- Three things you need to know about climate change, by Simon Upton
- More news
Key documents, speeches and events
- Green Investment Banks: Scaling up Private Investment in Low-Carbon, Climate-resilient infrastructure
- Climate Finance in 2013-14 and the USD 100 billion Goal - A Report by the OECD in Collaboration with Climate Policy Initiative
- The Economic Consequences of Climate Change
- Climate Change Mitigation - Policies and Progress
- Implementing the Paris Agreement in a world of fossil abundance, by Simon Upton (PDF)
- OECD Secretary-General's Remarks at Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition High-Level Assembly
- Statement by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría on COP21 Agreement
Video - It’s time to act on climate change
Two decades after the Rio Earth Summit, greenhouse gas emissions are higher than ever and pledges to cut carbon beyond 2020, even if met, will not be enough to limit the global temperature rise to a safe level. If we want to reach zero net emissions by the end of the century, we must align our policies for a low-carbon economy, put a price on carbon everywhere, spend less subsidising fossil fuels and invest more in clean energy.
OECD supporting action on climate change
- Access our bibliography on climate change and working papers