The analysis was conducted by a cross-directorate team at the OECD, bringing together expertise from the Directorate for Education and Skills (EDU) and the Environment Directorate (ENV), as well as input from the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), the Centre for Skills (SKC), the Development Centre (DEV), the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), the Economics Department (ECO) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The authors are grateful to the many OECD colleagues who provided substantial contributions to the report. Data analysis in Chapter 1 was performed in collaboration with Gara Rojas Gonzáles, Jaione González Yubero and Yanjun Guo. Katherine Hassett and Olof Bystrom supported and reviewed data analysis on the OECD Survey on Environmental Policy and Individual Behaviour Change (EPIC); Noémie Le Donné and Gemma Coleman reviewed analysis of data from the OECD Survey of Social and Emotional Skills (SSES); and Daniel Salinas reviewed analysis of data from the OECD Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA). Manuela Fitzpatrick and Jason McGrath prepared Box 1.8 on the Leaving Certificate Climate Action and Sustainable Development in Ireland. The authors would also like to thank the following OECD and IEA colleagues for their review and insightful comments: Francesca Borgonovi, Magdalena Burtscher, Joanne Caddy, Malgorzata Kuczera, Jan Maarse, Marc Fuster Rabella, Rebecca Ruff, Pablo Shah, Michele Tuccio, Marieke Vandeweyer.
The comments and suggestions from external reviewers and contributors are also gratefully acknowledged, including from: Owen Gaffney (Chief Impact Officer, Nobel Prize Outreach and Co-lead, Earth4All), Ulrike Pisiotis (Policy Officer, European Commission), Matthew Pye (Head of Philosophy, European School Brussels II, Founder of The Climate Academy), Russel Tytler (Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair of Science Education, FASSA, Deakin University).
The authors are grateful for the oversight, review, information and comments provided by the OECD’s Education Policy Committee (EDPC). Special thanks are due to Radboud Dam, Marit van de Mortel and Rien Rouw from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Netherlands; Patrizia Jankovic from the Ministry of Education, Austria; Geoffroy Libertiaux and Dominique Denis from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium; and Aoife Mitchell, Ian Mulholland, and Leona DeKhors from the Department of Education, Ireland, for providing country-specific information and reviewing policy examples from their countries. Financial support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Netherlands is gratefully acknowledged.
Within the OECD's Directorate for Education and Skills, the report was prepared for publication by Kebure Assefa and Jessica Bouton. Rachel Linden and Sasha Ramirez-Hughes offered editorial, publications and communications advice.