This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It is part of the Programme of Work of the OECD’s Regional Development Policy Committee.
The report is the outcome of five high-level expert workshops organised in 2019 by the OECD and the European Commission at the OECD Headquarters in Paris as part of the project “Managing Environmental and Energy Transitions for Regions and Cities”. The financial contribution by the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and the support, in particular by Peter Berkowitz, Sander Happaerts, Myriam Bovéda and Gergana Miladinova, are gratefully acknowledged.
The OECD Secretariat would like to thank the experts who wrote the background papers for each workshop: Harriet Bulkeley, Ralph Chapman, Paul Ekins, Greg Halseth, Martin Phillips, Alexis Robert, Dirk Schoenmaker, Willem Schramade, Seth Schultz, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, and Anders Wijkman. The background papers are available in their entirety online. The OECD team would also like to thank the workshop participants for their perspectives that have contributed to informing this report.
The workshops and final publication were co-ordinated by Sandra Hannig under the supervision of Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter and Rüdiger Ahrend in the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance Section in CFE, led by Rüdiger Ahrend. The chapters build on the background papers and the workshop discussions. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 were drafted by Sandra Hannig with input from Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter. Chapter 3 was co-authored by Sandra Hannig and Oriana Romano. Nikolina Jonsson supported the organisation of the five workshops for which Aimée Aguilar Jaber (Workshop 1), Tadashi Matsumoto (Workshop 2), Oriana Romano (Workshop 3), Chris McDonald (Workshop 4) and Dorothée Allain-Dupré (Workshop 5) were responsible. The report benefited from valuable additional comments and inputs from Jonathan Crook, Isabelle Chatry, Maria Varinia Michalun, Atsuhito Oshima, Louise Phung, Lisanne Raderschall, Andrés Sanabria and Raffaele Trapasso from the OECD. It also benefitted from comments from colleagues of several Directorates-General of the European Commission, including Benjamin Fairbrother, Merja Haapakka, Sander Happaerts, Michal Kubicki, Laura Liger, Federico Porra, Eleftherios Stavropoulos. Peter Takacs and Monika Zdaneviciute. Special thanks goes also to the Environment Directorate at the OECD for their participation in workshops and for their analysis on which the report draws.
Thanks are also due to Meral Gedik for editing and formatting the manuscript and to Pilar Philip for co‑ordinating the publication process.
This publication was approved by the Regional Development Policy Committee through written procedure on 19 October 2020 (CFE/RDPC (2020)11).