The report was prepared by Henrik Lindhjem (Menon Economics), Yohei Mitani (Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University), Ståle Navrud (School of Economics and Business, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences) and Olof Bystrom (OECD Environment Directorate). The work was carried out under the overall supervision of Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division in the Environment Directorate of the OECD.
The work was supported by a scientific advisory committee whose contributions to the report, analytical approach and data are gratefully acknowledged. The committee consisted of Lisa Robinson (Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health), Susan Chilton (Newcastle University), Alan Krupnick (Resources for the Future) and Kip Viscusi (Vanderbuilt University).
The report benefited from valuable comments and feedback from Katherine Hassett, Akin Adetutu, Rose Mba Mébiame, Damien Dussaux, Emma DeRoy, Miguel Cardenas Rodrigues and Kumi Kitamori (all OECD Environment Directorate), Tobias Kruse and Filippo D’Arcangelo (OECD Economics Directorate).
Illias Mousse Iye and Ivan Babiy (OECD Environment Directorate) provided administrative support. Elizabeth Del Bourgo and Emma DeRoy (OECD Environment Directorate) assisted with communication and outreach aspects of the report. Meral Gedik (independent consultant) provided support in preparing the report for publication.
The OECD Environmental Policy Committee was responsible for the oversight and development of the report. The authors are thankful to delegates of the Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies, who reviewed earlier drafts.
Preliminary results of the analysis have been presented by the authors at three conferences: Workshop on mortality and morbidity risk valuation: Advances and remaining challenges (25-26 January 2024 in Paris) organised by Daniel Herrera-Araujo, the Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis (19-20 September 2024 in Warsaw), and at the annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (16 June 2025 in Bergen). Comments from participants are gratefully acknowledged, Finally, the work benefitted from synergies with the EU Horizon projects: “Methodologies for assessing the real costs to health of environmental stressors (MARCHES) (grant no. 101095430)” and “Valuation of environmental stressors (VALESOR) (grant no. 101095611)”.
The OECD gratefully acknowledges financial support for this work from the European Commission, Norway, Switzerland and the United States.