OECD work on environment 2013-14

1. OECD WORK ON
Environment
2013-14

2. OECD WORK ON environment
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Preface: New Approaches to Economic Challenges
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Peer Reviews, Indicators and Outlooks
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Climate Change
10 Biodiversity
13 Water
16 Eco-innovation
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Environmental Policy Tools and Evaluation
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Resource Productivity and Waste
23
Sectoral Policies: Transport, Agriculture
25
Safety of Chemicals, Pesticides, Biotechnology & Nanomaterials
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Environment in the Global Economy
31
Green Growth
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The Committee Structures
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EPOC Organigramme
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Environment Directorate (ENV)
39
Selected Databases

3. *M e mbe r countr ie s
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development
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Australia
Japan
Austria
Korea
Belgium
Luxembourg
Canada
Mexico
Chile
Netherlands
Czech Republic
New Zealand
Denmark
Norway
Estonia
Poland
Finland
Portugal
France
Slovak Republic
Germany
Slovenia
Greece
Spain
Hungary
Sweden
Iceland
Switzerland
Ireland
Turkey
Israel
he OECD, which traces its roots to the Marshall Plan, groups 34 member
countries* committed to democratic government and the market economy.
It provides a forum where governments can compare and exchange policy
experiences, identify good practices and promote decisions and recommendations.
Dialogue, consensus, and peer review and pressure are at the very heart of OECD.
United Kingdom
Italy
Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia became new members of the OECD in 2010. The
OECD membership talks continue with the Russian Federation. In addition, efforts
are made to enhance engagement with key partners such as Brazil, China, India,
Indonesia and South Africa in environment programmes.
The OECD is working for a stronger, cleaner and fairer world economy. The principal
aim of the Organisation is to promote policies for sustainable economic growth and
employment, a rising standard of living, and trade liberalisation. By “sustainable
economic growth” the OECD means growth that balances economic, social and
environmental considerations.
The OECD is one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of comparable
statistical, economic and social data. It monitors trends, collects data, analyses and
forecasts economic development, and investigates evolving patterns in a broad range of public policy areas such as
agriculture, development co-operation, education, employment, taxation and trade, science, technology, industry
and innovation in addition to environment. The OECD family of organisations also includes the International Energy
Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
United States
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Environment
Preface:
New Approaches to Economic Challenges
“ With a rapidly growing population of more than 7 billion and
a hesitant recovery from the global crisis, the world faces
complex economic, environmental and social challenges. To
address them, we must work to boost economic growth, create
jobs, tackle rising inequality and protect the environment.”
Angel Gurría
OECD Secretary-General
And we know that we can only accomplish these goals over the long term if we tackle them simultaneously. This
means that we also need to re-think the world economy and come up with new approaches that will deliver “greener”
and more innovative, inclusive sources of growth.
To do so, the OECD has launched a new initiative called “New Approaches to Economic Challenges”, with the
objective of revisiting our economic models and theories, and enriching our analytical frameworks, identifying a
renewed strategic policy agenda for inclusive growth and well-being that also takes into account sustainability and
the respect for the environment.
To rise to the challenges ahead of us, we encourage all governments, all countries, to support national and
international efforts to promote green growth. The OECD stands ready to accompany policy makers in this
challenging but necessary endeavour.
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Peer Reviews, Indicators and Outlooks
Providing analysis of key environmental challenges, now and in the future
Environmental Performance Reviews (EPRs)
The OECD’s Environmental Performance Review (EPR)
Programme provides independent assessments of
countries’ progress in achieving domestic and international
environmental
policy
commitments.
Reviews
are
conducted to promote peer learning, to enhance countries’
accountability to one another and to the public, and to
improve governments’ environmental performance,
individually and collectively. The analyses presented are
supported by a broad range of economic and environmental
data. Targeted recommendations are designed to reinforce
national environmental policy initiatives. During 2013-14,
reviews of Mexico, Italy, Austria, South Africa, Colombia,
Iceland, Sweden, Poland and Spain will be published.
Countries report on measures they have taken to implement
recommendations contained in EPRs.
Environmental Data and Indicators
The OECD provides environmental data and indicators
for policy development and assessment nationally
and internationally. The work on the environmental
performance reviews draws on this knowledge base. The
methodology is a reference in countries of Eastern Europe,
Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), Latin America, and the
Asia Pacific and Mediterranean regions.
The
widely
used
OECD
‘Pressure-State-Response’
framework helps decision-makers and the public to see
how environmental, economic and social indicators
are interconnected. The OECD regularly publishes Key
Environmental Indicators and is developing new ones, e.g.
for Green Growth and Material Flows.
Key Publications
Key publications
• Environment at a Glance (2013)
• OECD Environmental Performance Reviews:
• Material Resources, Productivity and the Environment (2013)
• Mexico, Italy, Austria, South Africa (2013)
• Towards Green Growth: Monitoring Progress (2013)
• Colombia, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, Spain (2014)
www.oecd.org/env/indicators
www.oecd.org/env/countryreviews
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did you know ...that by 2020 most OECD countries
will have undergone an environmental performance review
three times, with key partner countries such as China, Russia,
Colombia and South Africa also the subject of review?
Cost of climate change mitigation action: Global emissions
and cost of mitigation
Index 2010=100
450
400
The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 was the primary input
to the OECD meeting of Environment Ministers in April 2012.
Based on economic-environmental modelling, the Outlook
looks towards 2050 to analyse the consequences of policy
inaction in four priority areas: climate change, biodiversity,
water, and health impacts of pollution and chemicals. It
provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to
2050, and simulations of policy actions to address the key
challenges.
A follow-up project starting in 2013 will focus on how the
costs of inaction and natural resource scarcity might affect
future economic growth.
Key Publications
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: Consequences of Inaction
(2012)
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 (2008)
www.oecd.org/environment/outlooks
www.oecd.org/environment/modelling
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GDP -5.5%
Baseline scenario
450 ppm core scenario
350
Environmental Outlooks
Environment
300
250
200
150
GHG emissions -69.5%
100
50
0
2010
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
2040
2045
2050
Source: Environmental Outlook to 2050: ENV-Linkages model
did you know …that almost four billion people will live
in water-stressed river basins by 2050 if better policies are not
introduced?
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Climate Change
Responding to complexity with analysis of least-cost policies
Economics of Climate Change Mitigation
The OECD is assessing the economic costs and benefits
of climate policies. Our analysis focuses on least-cost
policy mixes to reduce emissions, the benefits of linking
carbon markets, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, ensuring
sufficient financing, and how to address concerns about
carbon leakage and competitiveness impacts of climate
policies. The Environmental Outlook to 2050 makes projections
of climate change, as well as environmental and economic
impacts of climate policies. Equity considerations have
gained prominence in the face of current economic
and financial challenges. New work will examine the
distributional consequences of carbon taxes by household
types, sectors or regions.
including sectoral approaches for mitigation and “market
readiness”.
The OECD helps countries identify and implement
effective and efficient policy mixes to meet their climate
commitments through analyses of the broad policy
mix (economic instruments, regulations, incentives for
technological innovation) as well as advice on how to best
implement policy reforms.
Key Publications
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of
Inaction (2012)
• Energy and Climate Policy: Bending the Technological Trajectory
The OECD, together with the IEA, provides the Secretariat to
support the Climate Change Expert Group, a forum where
climate negotiators can discuss key issues on the negotiating
agenda. There is a large body of work on the measurement,
reporting and verification (MRV) of mitigation actions and
support; finance and matching of finance to action; lowemission development strategies; and market mechanisms
(2012)
• Cities and Climate Change (2010)
www.oecd.org/env/cc
did you know …that removing fossil fuel consumption
subsidies could cut world GHG emissions by at least 10% in
2050?
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Adaptation to Climate Change
The OECD is examining policy frameworks to spur
adaptation responses. New work on national adaptation
planning efforts presents an overview of progress across
OECD countries and provides case studies of the design and
implementation of national programmes. Notable lessons
learned include the need to improve decision makers’ ability
to understand and use climate data, and the importance of
establishing robust national co‑ordination mechanisms.
Regional adaptation cost curves
Adaptation costs (percentage GDP)
2.5
India
Environment
action. OECD research examining trends in innovation
to develop more climate-resilient crops indicates rapidly
increasing interest in this area in recent decades.
The OECD also helps countries and development cooperation agencies to manage adaptation as part of
development activities. New work will compare monitoring
and evaluation approaches to assess the efficiency and
effectiveness of climate adaptation interventions. Another
study will examine how countries can integrate climate
adaptation strategies into long-term growth planning and
structural reform. Also, a sector-specific project provides
guidance on efficient adaptation for water systems.
Sub-Saharan Africa
2.0
Western Europe
1.5
Low-middle income
countries
1.0
Middle income
countries
United States
0.5
Key Publications
• Designing and Implementing National Adaptation Planning:
Lessons from OECD Countries (2012)
• Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation to Climate Change:
Japan
0
0.2
0.4
Approaches to Managing Climate Risks (2011)
China
0
www.oecd.org/env/cc/adaptationtoclimatechange.htm
0.6
Financing action on climate change
Source: Based on the AD-RICE model
Recent analysis also examines the roles of
and the private sector in driving adaptation. A
focused on the private sector’s engagement in
including factors which act as incentives or
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innovation
2011 report
adaptation,
barriers to
Public and private financing for climate action needs to be
scaled up significantly in the coming years. The Cancún
Agreements called on developed countries to provide
new and additional resources for developing countries:
USD 30 billion over 2010-2012, and a longer-term goal of
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USD 100 billion per year by 2020 from public and private
sources. A 2012 OECD report estimates aggregate NorthSouth flows for mitigation and adaptation in the range
of USD 70 to 120 billion annually during 2009-2010. This
was mainly from private sources. To better track finance
flows, new work focuses on designing and implementing
strengthened MRV systems to raise accountability and
transparency, and improved country systems to use climate
finance effectively.
Urgent action is needed to scale-up and shift public and
private investments towards low-carbon and climateresilient (LCR) infrastructure. Choices made today on the
types and location of critical infrastructure will lock in
future emission levels and the resilience of our economies
to a changing climate. Domestic and international private
investment in green infrastructure is still seriously
constrained by market failures and investment barriers.
The OECD has developed a Green Investment Policy Framework
to help governments to improve enabling conditions to
scale-up private investment in LCR infrastructure. New
work focuses on country and sector case studies on specific
policies and instruments used to leverage limited public
funds and mobilise private investment in LCR infrastructure.
The OECD has also launched work on the role of institutional
investors in green investment, to draw policy guidance
from cases where such green investments succeeded or
failed to deliver risk‑adjusted returns. Less than 1% of OECD
pension fund assets are allocated directly to infrastructure
projects, and an even smaller slice of this goes to green
infrastructure.
A new project will focus on creating a level playing field
for international investment in green energy. In addition,
empirical analysis will examine how governments can costeffectively leverage private finance for green growth. This
analysis will focus on the role of policies in generating flows
of private finance towards green investments.
Green Investment Policy Framework
1. Strategic goal setting
and policy alignment
5. Promote green
business
and consumer
behaviour
2. Enabling policies
and incentives
for LCR investment
4. Harness
resources and
build capacity
for an LCR
economy
3. Financial policies
and instruments
Source: OECD
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Key Publications
• Green Finance and Investment: The Case of Climate Change (2013)
• Tracking Climate Finance: What and How? (2012)
• Towards a Green Investment Policy Framework: The Case of LowCarbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure (2012)
• Mobilising Investment in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient
Infrastructure (2012)
• The Role of Institutional Investors in Financing Clean Energy (2012)
www.oecd.org/env/cc/financing
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Biodiversity
Promoting conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems
did you know
…that biodiversity is projected to decline
by a further 10% by 2050 without more ambitious policies to
protect it?
MSA, (%)
100
Infr+encr+frag
Climate change
90
Nitrogen
80
Former land-use
70
Forestry
Pasture
60
Bioenergy
2010
2030
2050
0-50
2010
2030
2050
Given recent and projected trends in biodiversity loss and
degradation, there is an urgent need for: greater and more
ambitious use of policies including economic instruments,
more cost-effective use of existing finance for biodiversity,
and mainstreaming of biodiversity in other sectoral policymaking.
Sources of loss in MSA to 2050
2010
2030
2050
Biodiversity loss is one of the four priority areas featured
in the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050. OECD work is
focused on the economic aspects of biodiversity – enhancing
understanding of how biodiversity and ecosystems can
be valued, and how these values can be captured through
policy instruments and incentives to support biodiversity
conservation and sustainable use. The work aims to
promote biodiversity policies that are environmentally
effective, economically efficient and distributionally
equitable. OECD work on biodiversity supports the work of
the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
2010
2030
2050
Economics of Biodiversity
OECD
BRIICS
RoW
World
Food crop
Remaining MSA
Source: OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050; output from IMAGE
Scaling Up Biodiversity Instruments
Current OECD work focuses on financing mechanisms for
biodiversity, including how to better engage the private
sector. This work looks at lessons learned from existing
biodiversity instruments, such as payments for ecosystem
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services (PES), biodiversity offsets, and certification
schemes, to provide insights for how such instruments can
be scaled up.
Cost-effective Use of Existing Biodiversity Finance
A key challenge in efficiently allocating biodiversity
finance is the need to ensure appropriate design and
implementation of biodiversity instruments so as to best
achieve their intended goals. This includes the need to
develop appropriate metrics and indicators for biodiversity
instruments, and ensure robust monitoring and reporting
frameworks. Metrics and indicators, for example, are critical
to assess trends, establish business-as-usual baselines,
quantify benefits, target biodiversity expenditures and
enable the assessment of policy interventions over time.
OECD is at the forefront of examining good-practice in the
design of policy instruments and how they can be improved
so as to achieve greater biodiversity benefits at lower cost.
Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Sectoral and
Development Policies
The drivers of biodiversity loss and degradation often stem
from policies in other sectors and areas such as agriculture,
fisheries, forestry and climate change. Linkages between
biodiversity and other cross-sectoral policies are complex
and greater efforts are needed to mainstream biodiversity
into decision-making processes across the economy.
OECD work is examining how to maximise synergies and
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Environment
address trade-offs between biodiversity and other sectoral
policies. Particular attention is paid to biodiversity and
water. Coherent policies are needed at local, national
and international level to help reverse global trends in
biodiversity loss.
The OECD also tracks aid in support of biodiversity. Since
1998 the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
has monitored aid targeting the objectives of the Rio
Conventions. In 2009-10, DAC members allocated an average
about USD 5.7 billion per year for biodiversity-related aid.
Biodiversity-related ODA figure
USD billion
7
6
5
Biodiversity: principal objective
Biodiversity: upper bound estimate
(principal + significant objective)
4
3
2
1
0
2005-2006
2007-2008
Source: Development Co-operation Report, OECD (2012)
2009-2010
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Key Publications
• Green Growth and Biodiversity (2013)
• Finance Mechanisms for Biodiversity (2013)
• Paying for Biodiversity: Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of
Payments for Ecosystem Services (2010)
• Promoting Biodiversity Co-Benefits in Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) (2009)
www.oecd.org/env/biodiversity
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Environment
Water
Achieving water security
OECD Horizontal Programme on Water
Green growth requires more effective management of water
resources. But sustainable water management is complex,
often involving many ministries and different levels of
government, and affecting all sectors in the economy.
Many OECD countries face the challenge of rehabilitating
and upgrading ageing water and wastewater infrastructure
to meet increasingly stringent water quality standards.
The Millennium Development Goals commit governments
to halving the populations without access to water and
sanitation by 2015. This will require a significant increase in
financing and reform in governance of the water sector.
The OECD Horizontal Programme on Water addresses
the key economic and governance issues related to
water management. It is undertaken by the Environment
Policy Committee, in partnership with the Agriculture,
Investment,
Development
Assistance
and
Public
Governance Committees. Key findings were presented in
Managing Water for All: An OECD Perspective on Pricing and
Financing (2009). More recent developments are captured in
the publication Meeting the Water Reform Challenge released
at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille in March 2012.
© OECD 2013
Other 2012 publications have focused on the outlook for
water to 2050, financing for water resources management,
water quality in agriculture, and water governance in Latin
American countries.
A major project on the economics and governance of
water security will come to fruition in 2013. This work
paves the way towards innovative approaches to deal with
water-related risks. It informs work on the adaptation of
ecosystems to climate change and explores the potential
contribution of economic instruments and financing
mechanisms to better manage water under increasing
climate variability. Further work on water, agriculture and
adaptation to climate change is being undertaken by the
Trade and Agriculture Directorate.
Work in 2013-14 will also focus on the economics and
governance of urban water management. This project
will provide practical guidance on sustainable financing
for urban water, urban water governance challenges, and
urban-rural water linkages. It will build on analytical work
and case studies on selected cities.
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In addition, new work will examine mechanisms for water
resource allocation in order to ensure that water helps
to maximise social welfare without compromising the
resource base. This issue is gaining prominence in many
countries as water is already over-allocated in a number of
basins, and the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 projects
the situation will become more severe.
Global water demand
Km 3
6 000
Electricity
5 000
Manufacturing
4 000
3 000
Livestock
2 000
Domestic
1 000
A new area of engagement is water policy reviews for
specific countries. The OECD supports ambitious water
policy reforms in selected countries, on demand, by
combining robust analytical capacities and the experience
of international practitioners, in the framework of national
policy dialogues on water. The OECD work under the EAP
Task Force in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
(see the section Environment and Development in EECCA) paved
the way and the effort has expanded to OECD countries. A
pioneering project was completed in Mexico 2012, which
has helped to inform the water policy reform agenda of the
incoming Presidential Team. A water policy review of the
Netherlands will be undertaken in 2013-14, and Brazil has
signalled an interest for a similar country-specific review.
OECD
BRIICS
RoW
2050
2000
2050
2000
2050
2000
2050
Irrigation
2000
0
Work will also be undertaken on the human impacts of
nitrogen and phosphorus cycles and explore efficient ways
to remedy them.
World
Source: OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050; output from IMAGE
did you know …that global water demand is projected
to increase by 55% to 2050, increasing competition for water
and leaving little scope for increasing water for irrigation?
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Key Publications
• Water Security: Managing Risks, Improving Resilience (2013)
• Water and Climate Change Adaptation: Policies to Navigate
Unchartered Waters (2013)
• Managing Water for Green Growth (2013)
• Making Water Reform Happen in Mexico (2013)
• Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction,
Paris (Water chapter) (2012)
• A Framework for Financing Water Resources Management (2012)
• Meeting the Water Reform Challenge (2012)
• Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge (2012)
• Water Governance in Latin American and the Caribbean:
A Multi‑level Approach (2012)
www.oecd.org/water
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Eco-innovation
Fostering innovative solutions for a green economy
Encouraging Eco-Innovation
Investment in eco-friendly technologies can represent a
new source of growth and “win-win” opportunities for
both the environment and economic recovery. The OECD is
examining policies to promote eco-innovation and finding
ways to measure progress.
A recent publication examines the effects of national
environmental policies on innovation and transfer in a wide
range of environmental technologies. A forthcoming one
explores how national and local initiatives to promote ecoinnovation can mutually support one another.
A recent publication has examined how the policy
framework affects the rate and direction of innovation
in climate mitigation and adaptation technologies. Ongoing work is focusing on the factors which encourage the
development of ‘breakthrough’ technologies, which will be
needed to ensure that we shift our economies on to a ‘green’
trajectory.
Related work is assessing international technology and
knowledge diffusion. While the largest flows are amongst
OECD countries, there are non-OECD countries that have
become significant partners – particularly in climate
technologies (see Figure). This is encouraging because
international diffusion of environmental technologies and
knowledge is vital to addressing global environmental
problems such as climate change.
Top 10 Co-inventor Country Pairs (Levels, 2000-2008)
Wind power
Solar PV
All tech. fields
1
Denmark-UK
Japan-USA
UK-USA
2
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
Germany-USA
3
Canada-USA
UK-USA
Canada-USA
4
Germany-Netherl.
Switzerl.-Germany
Switzerl.-Germany
5
Netherlands-USA
Austria-Germany
Japan-USA
6
Germany-Denmark
Canada-USA
France-USA
7
India-USA
China-USA
Netherlands-USA
8
Belgium-S.Africa
Germany-France
Germany-France
9
Russia-USA
Germany-Netherl.
Switzerland-France
Denmark-Spain
UK-Italy
Switzerland-USA
10
Source: Energy and Climate Policy (2012)
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However, in order to ensure that the cleaner technologies
are deployed widely, large volumes of funds need to be
mobilized to finance such investment. Therefore, a new
stream of work has been initiated on the analysis of how the
public policy framework can help leverage private finance
for green growth in a cost-effective manner.
Key Publications
• International Cooperation for Climate Change Innovation (2013)
• Eco-innovation and Green Growth. Coordinating International,
National and Local Initiatives (2013)
• Better Policies to Support Eco-innovation (2011)
• Energy and Climate Change Policy and Innovation (2011)
• The Invention and Transfer of Environmental Technologies (2011)
www.oecd.org/environment/innovation
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Environmental Policy Tools and Evaluation
Ensuring policies are economically efficient and environmentally effective
The OECD undertakes fact-based analysis of policy
instruments and mixes of instruments to help governments
design and implement environmentally effective and
economically efficient policies. The OECD’s focus on policy
instruments such as taxes, tradable permits and voluntary
approaches makes an important contribution to integrating
environmental protection and economic growth.
A new project on effective carbon prices aims to better
understand the implicit price associated with many of the
regulations and other policy instruments used to reduce
GHG emissions.
Policy Evaluation
Following the 2008 publication of Cost of Inaction on Key
Environmental Challenges, new analytical work has been
undertaken to help policy makers evaluate environmentrelated health risks that affect children, focusing on the
valuation of environmental health risks to children.
Another project has analysed estimates of the value
of preventing fatalities more generally, and spells out
implications for policy assessments.
OECD work on environmental compliance assurance has
reviewed how governments promote, monitor and enforce
compliance with environmental laws and regulations.
Further work focuses on performance indicators
and mechanisms to promote national coherence in
environmental enforcement.
Tax rates per litre of unleaded petrol and diesel in OECD
member countries (1.1.2002 and 1.1.2012)
Euro per litre
1.0
0.8
0.6
Petrol 1.1.12
Petrol 1.1.02
Diesel 1.1.12
Diesel 1.1.02
0.4
0.2
0
-0.2
-0.4
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A C A E
CA – A N – F X
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+ te
Pr
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CH v
NZL
AU L
POS
L
IS
ES L
ES T
HU P
LUN
AUX
KO T
JP R
SV N
SVN
CZK
BEE
DN L
PRK
T
IR
CHL
FR E
A
IS
SWR
E
FI
DEN
GBU
GRR
C
IT
NO A
R
NL
T UD
R
Economic Instruments and Policy Mixes
Source: OECD/EEA database on environmental policy instruments
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Key Publications
• Effective Carbon Prices (2013)
• Mortality Risk Valuation in Environment, Health and Transport
Policies (2012)
• Green Transformation of Small Businesses: Achieving and Going
Beyond Environmental Requirements (2012)
• Valuation of Environment-Related Health Risks for Children (2010)
• Taxation, Innovation and the Environment (2010)
• Cost of Inaction on Key Environmental Challenges (2008)
Environment
of environmental taxes and financial incentives. However,
the last round of the survey found that households’
exposure to such policies can enhance public support for
them: households charged by weight or volume of waste
generated express greater support for such systems than
those not facing unit-based waste charges (see figure). A
publication presenting an overview of responses from the
second survey is to be published in 2013, and a third survey
is planned for early 2014.
www.oecd.org/environment/tools-evaluation
www.oecd.org/env/taxes
www.oecd.org/env/policies/vsl
Percent of respondents supporting unit-based waste
charging policies by exposure to such policies
Households and the Environment
© OECD 2013
Don’t have unit-based charging
Have unit-based charging
0.42
80
0.35
0.52
0.12
0.09
0.06
60
40
20
N
CA
E
SW
D
NL
N
JP
KO
R
0
E
The survey analyses the relationship between public
policy, household attitudes and norms, and decisions with
significant environmental consequences. For example,
public opinion can impose significant constraints on the use
%
100
CH
OECD work provides new insights to better understand
households’ environmental behaviour and how policies
affect their decisions in the real world. A periodic survey
on Environmental Policy and Individual Behaviour Change
(EPIC) of more than 10 000 respondents across a number of
countries provides empirical evidence to improve the design
of environmental policies in residential energy use, water
consumption, transport, organic food, and waste generation
and recycling.
Source: Greening Household Behaviour: Responses from the Second Survey, OECD (2013)
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In addition to traditional policy instruments, new types
of policies inspired by behavioural economics have
been shown to cost-effectively decrease households’
environmental impacts. For example, regularly providing
information to households about how their energy and
water consumption compares to that of their neighbours
has been shown to reduce consumption at very low cost. In
2012 OECD issued a working paper, Behavioural Economics
and Environmental Incentives, which outlines ways in
which behavioural economics can be used to enhance
the design of environmental policy. New work is being
done with country governments to conduct field
trials of these types of policies in areas
such as energy conservation,
ecolabelling, and provision
of ecosystem services.
Key Publications
• Greening Household Behaviour: Responses from the Second
Survey (2013)
• Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy (2011)
www.oecd.org/env/consumption-innovation/households.htm
www.oecd.org/env/consumption-innovation/behaviour.htm
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22. OECD work on
Environment
Resource Productivity and Waste
Reducing, reusing and recycling materials and resources
Sustainable Materials Management and Waste
The OECD is developing policies that incentivise and
encourage waste prevention, minimisation and recycling.
Current work focuses on promoting Sustainable Materials
Management (SMM) in order to limit waste generation
in the first place. Using materials and resources more
efficiently requires more integrated approaches towards the
environmental impacts associated with their extraction,
transportation and use, as well as waste disposal. OECD
has started to develop practical guidance for policy makers
on how to implement SMM policies, based on materialand products‑specific case studies and with a focus on
specific policy instruments. A report on material resources,
productivity and the environment is also being prepared
for 2013.
Material Flows Accounting
OECD has made advances in the knowledge base on material
flows as well as in methodologies for developing common
measurement systems and indicators.
Municipal Waste Generation: kg per capita, 2008‑2010
Factbook
1 000
800
600
400
200
…that the global recycling industry
handles over 500 million tons of waste and employs more
than 1.5 million workers, with an annual turnover of USD
200 billion?
0
CH
CZN
SV E
POK
CHL
M L
E
KO X
CA R
JP N
Z AN
TU F
SV R
RUN
ESS
GR T
HU C
PRN
BET
L
F
EU IN
2
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FR E
A
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GB
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AUP
IS T
NL R
LUD
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Source: OECD Key Environmental Indicators, (2009)
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Key Publications
• Material Resources, Productivity and the Environment (2013)
• Sustainable Materials Management: Making Better Use
of Resources (2012)
• State of Resources and Resource Productivity (2011)
• Guidance Manual for the Control of Transboundary Movement
of Recoverable Wastes (2009)
• Measuring Material Flows and Resource Productivity (2008)
www.oecd.org/env/waste
© OECD 2013

24. OECD work on
Environment
Sectoral Policies: Transport, Agriculture
Integrating environmental concerns into sector policies
Transport
Transport underpins economic and social development,
allowing more efficient allocation of resources and
increased mobility for people. Yet, there are challenges
related to the environmental impacts of transport and
globalisation can aggravate these challenges. A 2010 report
Globalisation, Transport and the Environment examines major
transport trends and the environmental challenges they
cause as well as policy instruments that can limit negative
impacts. Analyses of CO2-related tax rate differentiation
of motor vehicles are also available, and a study on the
environmental impacts of ports was released in 2011.
Transport is the second largest contributor to global
greenhouse gas emissions. To avoid lock-in into carbonintensive and climate-vulnerable transport infrastructure,
there is a need to shift investment towards sustainable
transport infrastructure. The OECD is applying the Green
Investment Policy Framework to the transport sector (see
also section on Financing Action on Climate Change).
© OECD 2013
Key Publications
• Mobilising Private investment in Sustainable Transport
Infrastructure: The Case of Land-Based Passenger Transport (2013)
• The Environmental Impact of International Shipping: The Role
of Ports (2011)
• Globalisation, Transport and the Environment (2010)
Agriculture
The Environment Directorate contributes to joint work
with the Trade and Agriculture Directorate to strengthen
policies to reduce the negative impacts of agriculture on
the environment, to reinforce the positive impacts, and to
develop and collect agri-environmental indicators. Current
and planned work is focused on the interactions between
water, climate change and agriculture, groundwater
management in agriculture, the management of droughts
and floods in agriculture, and the linkages between urban
and rural water usage (see the section on Water).
did you know …that ships are responsible for 2-4%
of global man-made CO2 emissions and 15% of other air
pollutants?
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Tax per tonne CO2 emitted over a vehicle’s life, one-off and recurrent motor vehicle taxes
01.01.2012, selected levels of emissions per km driven
Euro per tonne CO 2 emitted over the vehicle lifetime
1 000
100 gram CO 2 per km
800
600
One-off
Recurrent
Euro per tonne CO 2 emitted over the vehicle lifetime
1 000
150 gram CO 2 per km
800
600
400
Recurrent
400
200
One-off
200
0
0
-200
-200
600
One-off
Recurrent
L
BE
L
BE
Euro per tonne CO 2 emitted over the vehicle lifetime
1 000
200 gram CO 2 per km
800
(W A
B E a llo U T
L ni a
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th
er
CA )
N
DN
K
FR
F
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ny
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U
IR
L
IS
R
LU
X
NL
D
NO
R
PR
T
SV
N
ES
P
SW
E
GB
R
US
A
ZA
F
-400
-600
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B E a llo U T
L ni a
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th
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CA )
N
DN
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FI
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N
A F
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U
IR
L
IS
R
LU
X
NL
D
NO
R
PR
T
SV
N
ES
P
SW
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GB
R
US
A
ZA
F
-400
-600
Euro per tonne CO 2 emitted over the vehicle lifetime
1 000
250 gram CO 2 per km
800
600
400
Recurrent
400
200
One-off
200
0
0
-200
-200
L
BE
L
BE
(W A
B E a llo U T
L ni a
(o )
th
er
CA )
N
DN
K
FR
F
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ny
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U
IR
L
IS
R
LU
X
NL
D
NO
R
PR
T
SV
N
ES
P
SW
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GB
R
US
A
ZA
F
-400
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(W A
B E a llo U T
L ni a
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th
er
CA )
N
DN
K
FI
FR
N
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p.
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U
IR
L
IS
R
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NL
D
NO
R
PR
T
SV
N
ES
P
SW
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GB
R
US
A
ZA
F
-400
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Source: OECD/EEA database on instruments used for environmental policy
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26. OECD work on
Environment
Safety of Chemicals, Pesticides,
Biotechnology & Nanomaterials
Protecting human health and the environment
Chemical Safety
The chemicals industry is one of the world’s major economic
sectors. The products of the chemical industry are worth
about EUR 3.8 trillion annually.
The OECD Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Programme
aims to foster international co-operation to ensure the
safety of chemicals and chemical products like pesticides,
biocides, manufactured nanomaterials, and the products of
modern biotechnology. It also aims to avoid barriers to trade
at the same time.
did you know …that by working together through the
OECD, governments and industry save over EUR 150 million
annually?
Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD)
The OECD Council Acts on the Mutual Acceptance of Data
for the assessment of chemicals (MAD) are international
agreements, which set the policies and provide the
© OECD 2013
instruments that governments and industry need to test the
safety of chemicals and chemical products. OECD countries
must accept safety test data which has been developed in
other countries using the OECD Test Guidelines and following
the OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice. Non-tariff
barriers to trade are minimised by harmonised policies
and instruments, and duplicative testing is avoided, saving
governments and industry time and money. Increasingly
non-OECD economies are joining the MAD system, with
Argentina, Brazil, India, South Africa and Singapore as full
adherents; Malaysia and Thailand provisional adherents;
and others expected to join soon.
Sharing the Regulatory Burden for Pesticides and
Industrial Chemicals
All OECD countries regulate chemicals, pesticides and
products of modern biotechnology. By using the same
methodologies for determining the safety of these products,
it is possible for countries and industry to share the burden
of testing and even evaluation in some cases. Countries
work together in the OECD to share the work load required
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for registering pesticides and biocides and for notifying,
registering or evaluating industrial chemicals.
Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials
OECD countries are addressing the human health and
environmental safety implications of nanomaterials. In
order to ensure that this is done in a harmonised way,
the OECD is drawing on its wealth of experience with
developing methods for testing and assessing the safety of
other chemical products. Amongst other things, the OECD is
evaluating whether existing test methods for assessing the
safety of chemicals are suitable for nanomaterials.
Co-operative testing of selected nanomaterials:
OECD and non-OECD governments are working with
industry, pooling expertise and funding to test the
human health and environmental safety effects of
13 nanomaterials which are currently in commerce.
New and More Efficient Tools for Getting Hazard
Information
Much information on the hazards associated with specific
chemicals is developed through tests in the laboratory.
However, other promising approaches such as computer
simulations
called
(quantitative)
structure-activity
relationships, known as (Q)SARs, have the potential to
provide information on the hazards of chemicals. Such
approaches can reduce the time and cost of testing,
as well as the need for animal testing. Through OECD,
member countries are looking at how such approaches
can be used more routinely in a regulatory context.
Work is also underway at the OECD to investigate how
(Q)SAR approaches can be combined with results from
toxicogenomics (the study of the response of a genome to
hazardous chemicals) and from high-throughput screening
in vitro assays (that can be applied rapidly to thousands of
chemicals) in an integrated way to predict the effects of
chemicals in animals and humans.
Safety of Bio-Tech Products
The majority of OECD countries and many others have a
system of regulatory oversight in place to assess the safety
of products of modern biotechnology. The most common
products of this type are genetically engineered crop plants
used in agriculture. The OECD works to ensure that the
information used in safety assessment, and the methods
used to collect that information, are shared amongst
countries. Recent focus has been on major agricultural
commodities such as soy bean, maize and cotton. Today,
there is a greater focus on crops important in the tropics
such as cassava and papaya.
© OECD 2013

28. OECD work on
Key Publications
• OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals (series)
• Safety Assessment of Foods and Feeds Derived from Transgenic
Crops (2013)
• Cutting Costs in Chemicals Management: How OECD Helps
Governments and Industry (2010)
• Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: Volumes 1-4 (2010,
2006)
• Good Laboratory Practice: OECD Principles and Guidance for
Compliance Monitoring (2005)
www.oecd.org/ehs
© OECD 2013
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Environment in the Global Economy
Making globalisation and environment compatible and mutually
supportive
Environment and Development
Economic growth and development are intricately linked
to the sound management of environmental resources. It
is the poorest who rely most on environmental resources
and are most affected by their degradation. A joint High
Level Meeting of the Environment Policy Committee
(EPOC) and the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
in 2009 reinforced the need for continued work at the
nexus of environment and development, with particular
focus on climate change and on capacity development for
environmental management.
The 2009 Policy Guidance on Integrating Adaptation into
Development Co-operation helps development co-operation
agencies and developing countries to integrate adaptation
within development activities and to “climate-proof”
development. OECD analysis also examines the role
of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in ensuring that
adaptation interventions are effective, efficient and
equitable. A 2011 assessment of development co-operation
agencies’ M&E frameworks identifies the characteristics
of M&E for adaptation and shares lessons learned on
adaptation indicators. Ongoing work will explore the
methodological challenges for adaptation M&E and provide
a comparative study of different approaches in developed
and developing countries.
Weak environmental governance and capacity constraints
affects sustainable management of natural resources in
developing countries and undermines the achievement
of key development and green growth objectives. The
OECD report Greening Development: Enhancing Capacity for
Environmental Management and Governance offers guidance
on how to enhance the capacities of key stakeholders in
both developing countries and in development co-operation
agencies to integrate the environment into national
planning and budgetary processes.
Trade and Environment
The Environment Directorate works with the Trade and
Agriculture Directorate to better understand trade patterns
and their environmental consequences. A report on illegal
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30. OECD work on
trade in environmentally sensitive goods was released
in 2012. This report addressed data and policy issues
that need to be resolved in order to reduce illegal trade in
wildlife, fisheries, waste, dangerous chemicals and timber.
Work on cross-border trade in electricity services and the
penetration of electricity produced from renewable energy
sources will be published in early 2013. The regular updating
of environmental provisions in regional Trade Agreements
will continue.
Environment
Annual Official Flows and Share of Activities Potentially
Affected by Climate Change
Official flows in million USD per year
1 800
1 600
Flows affected
1 400
Uncertainty
1 200
Flows unaffected
1 000
30
20
800
10
600
A major new area of work in 2013-14 will focus on
the economic, environmental and trade aspects of
environmental labelling and information schemes. The
project aims to provide guidance to governments on how
to address the challenges arising from the proliferation of
such schemes and their consequences.
0
400
200
0
Bangladesh
Egypt
Tanzania
Uruguay
Nepal
Fiji
Fiji
Source: Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Linking Climate Change and Development, OECD
(2005)
Co-operation with Key Emerging Economies
did you know …that a growing number of countries
are engaging in Regional Trade Agreements, which increasingly
include environmental provisions to ensure a level playing
field and improve environmental co-operation between trade
partners?
© OECD 2013
Key Partners (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and
South Africa) are invited to co-operate in all areas of OECD
work on environment, in particular on green growth, climate
change, water, biodiversity, environmental information,
environmental indicators and policy instruments.
Environmental Performance Reviews (EPR) of South
Africa and Colombia will be published in 2013. A broader
group of partner countries is invited to Global Forums on
Environment (GFENV) on various environmental issues,
providing a regular framework to substantiate the dialogue
with non-OECD countries. Global Forums in 2013-14 will
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focus on issues including climate change and economic
instruments for materials management.
• Ten Years of Municipal Water Sector Reform in EECCA:
from Almaty to Astana (2011)
• Greening Public Budgets in EECCA (2011)
Environment and Development in EECCA
The OECD Environment Directorate serves as the
Secretariat of the Task Force for the Implementation of the
Environmental Action Programme (EAP Task Force) that
guides reforms of environmental policies in Eastern Europe,
Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) and promotes their
integration into economic and social policies – greening
growth. This is done through robust policy analysis,
diffusion and adaptation of good international practices,
capacity development, policy dialogue at national and
regional levels, and pilot application of innovative policy
tools. OECD helps EECCA countries to make the best use
of available finance and enhance dialogue with private
sector and donors. A special focus is put on the economic
and financing aspects of water policies. The EAP Task Force
work is closely aligned with the European Union’s Water
Initiative and its framework of co‑operation with countries
of Eastern Partnership and Central Asia. It contributes to the
“Environment for Europe” process.
• Policy Guidance on Integrating Adaptation into Development
Co‑operation (2009)
• Environment and Regional Trade Agreements (2007)
www.oecd.org/env/outreach/eap.htm
Key Publications
• Enhancing Capacity for Greening Development (2012)
• Green Growth and Environmental Governance in EECCA (2012)
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32. OECD work on
Environment
Green Growth
The OECD launched its Green Growth Strategy at the
Ministerial Council Meeting in May 2011. It responded to a
mandate given by 39 countries, when they signed the “OECD
Green Growth Declaration” in 2009, comitting to “strengthen
[their] efforts to pursue green growth strategies as part of
[their] responses to the crisis and beyond, acknowledging
that green and growth can go hand in hand”.
The key message of the Green
Growth Strategy is that the
environment and the economy
can no longer be considered
in
isolat ion,
but
t hat
environmental considerations
need to be an inherent part of
future economic policymaking
and development planning.
Importantly, the Strategy
argued that green growth
cannot be a mere add-on to the mainstream reform agenda,
but requires a reassessment of growth policies and priorities
to ensure that their design and implementation better take
into account environmental impacts.
© OECD 2013
If implemented in structural reforms, green growth policies
can unlock new growth opportunities by various channels.
Well-designed green growth policies will ensure that market
participants feel the social costs of using environmental
assets, thus leading to a more efficient use of resources
and natural assets. Better price signals for environmental
externalities would also strengthen innovation and foster
demand for new, environmentally more efficient goods and
services, creating new markets and hence the potential for
new job opportunities.
Furthermore, stable green growth policies will enhance
investor confidence through greater predictability in how
governments deal with major environmental issues, and
green fiscal reform can support fiscal consolidation and
growth, as revenues from pricing externalities rise and
harmful subsidies are phased out.
Monitoring Progress
Evaluating the effects of green growth policies needs to
be based on sufficient knowledge of core environmental
developments as well as the linkages between environmental
outcomes and growth or well-being.
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A set of 25 indicators structured along four areas
is capturing the main features of green growth:
environmental and resource productivity, the natural
asset base, environmental quality of life, and economic
opportunities and policy responses.
A small set of headline indicators that summarise the
central elements of green growth for public and policy
makers’ communication is also proposed. The OECD work
on green growth indicators is part of the OECD’s broader
agenda on measuring progress and well-being.
Countries like the Czech Republic,
Korea, Mexico and the Netherlands,
have already applied the OECD
measurement framework to assess
their state of green growth. In a joint
project with UNIDO, work is also
underway in Colombia, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru
to apply the indicators in order to identify key areas of
national pressure and to improve the choice and design of
policy instruments.
Tailoring Green Growth Strategies to Individual
Countries
The OECD is supporting countries in their efforts to design
and implement strategies for greener and more inclusive
growth, through its core advice in country-specific and
multilateral surveillance, including Economic Surveys,
Environmental Performance Reviews, Investment Policy
Reviews, Reviews of Innovation Policy, the Green Cities
programme and Going for Growth. Through these, the OECD
is providing guidance tailored to the needs of individual
countries.
The OECD is working with other international organisations
and partner countries to examine how green growth can
be applied in the specific context of developing countries.
The forthcoming OECD report Green Growth and Developing
Countries will provide a platform for partner countries to
indicate their interest in collaborating with the OECD to
shape a green growth agenda that is feasible and relevant
for them and addresses the aspirations of their citizens.
www.oecd.org/dac/greengrowth
Another on-going project, Towards green growth in emerging
and developing Asia, is identifying the main policy challenges
faced by emerging and developing Asian countries to move
to a green growth development path. It is reviewing issues
of managing natural resource, tackling rapid urbanisation,
as well as integrating green growth strategies into national
development plans. A draft of the report will be discussed by
national green growth experts at a workshop in the second
half of 2013 and a revised version of it will be presented to
relevant OECD Committees in the first half of 2014.
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34. OECD work on
Green growth is also being integrated in OECD’s sector- and
issue-specific work to cover key areas such as energy (jointly
with the IEA), food and agriculture, innovation, green
investment, green business models, green jobs, biodiversity,
water, rural development, etc.
Environment
and implement sustainable development. The OECD is
hosting the second annual conference on 4-5 April 2013.
www.greengrowthknowledge.org
Key Publications
• Tools for Delivering Green Growth (PDF) (2011)
The Green Growth and Sustainable Development
Forum at the OECD (GG-SD Forum)
The GG-SD Forum is a new initiative established by the OECD
as a vehicle for facilitating dialogue among its Committee
experts on cross-cutting green growth and sustainable
development issues, to build on and complement the
extensive work already underway in individual Committees
and to maximise synergies across them.
• Towards Green Growth: A Summary for Policy Makers (PDF) (2011)
• Towards Green Growth: free version (2011)
• Towards Green Growth – Monitoring Progress: OECD Indicators (2011)
Green growth studies:
The new Green Growth Studies series aims to provide in-depth
reviews of the green growth issues faced by different sectors.
The GG-SD Forum will operate as a series of annual
conferences or workshops, focusing each year on a different
issue of relevance to more than one OECD Committee.
www.oecd.org/greengrowth/ggsdforum.htm
The Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
The OECD has joined forces with the Global Green Growth
Institute, UNEP and the World Bank to establish the GGKP.
Launched in January 2012, the GGKP is an international
knowledge-sharing platform that identifies and addresses
major knowledge gaps in green growth/green economy
theory and practice. It aims to provide practitioners and
policymakers with better tools to foster economic growth
© OECD 2013
Green growth papers:
OECD Green Growth Papers complement the OECD
Green Growth Studies series, and aim to stimulate
discussion and analysis on specific topics and obtain
feedback from interested audiences.
www.oecd.org/greengrowth
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The Committee Structures
The Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) implements the OECD’s Environment Programme. Established in 1971, EPOC celebrated
its 40th anniversary in 2011. EPOC, consisting of delegates from capitals, meets 1-2 times per year and holds meetings at the
Ministerial level approximately every four years. The last Ministerial meeting took place in March 2012.
EPOC oversees work on: country reviews, indicators and outlooks, climate change, natural resource management, policy tools
and evaluation, environment and development, and resource efficiency and waste, supported by EPOC’s Working Parties. EPOC
also co-operates with other OECD Committees, including through Joint Working Parties on Trade and Environment and on
Agriculture and Environment, as well as Joint Meetings of Experts on Tax and Environment and Joint Task Teams on environment
and development issues. The Chemicals Committee, like EPOC, reports directly to the OECD Council. EPOC’s Working Party on
Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology and the Chemicals Committee together form the Joint Meeting which oversees the
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Programme. EPOC is a major partner in two horizontal programmes at the OECD, one on
Green Growth and the other on Water.
The OECD Environment Directorate and the International Energy Agency (IEA) jointly serve as the Secretariat for the Climate
Change Expert Group which undertakes studies of issues related to the negotiation and implementation of international
agreements on climate change.
The OECD Environment Directorate also functions as the Secretariat for the Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental
Action Programme in Central and Eastern Europe (EAP Task Force). The Task Force provides a forum for dialogue and co-operation
for countries in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA).
The Environment Programme is carried out in co-operation with international and regional organisations, e.g. the World Bank,
UNEP, WTO, UNECE and Secretariats for UNFCCC, CBD and the Basel Convention. Key research institutes are also important
partners, as is civil society represented through business, labour and NGOs. EPOC is actively engaging with key emerging
economies through Global Forums on Environment.
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36. OECD work on
OECD Council
Environment Policy
Committee
Working Party
on Biodiversity, Water
and Ecosystems
Working Party on Climate,
Investment
and Development
Environment
EPOC
Organigramme
Working Party
on Environmental
Information
Working Party
on Environmental
Performance
Working Party on
Integrating Environmental
and Economic Policies
Working Party on Resource
Productivity and Waste
• Working Party on Manufactured
Nanomaterials
• Working Group on Good Laboratory
Practice
• Working Group on Pesticides
• Working Group on Chemical Accidents
Joint Meeting
Chemicals Committee
Other OECD
substantive committees
Secretariat Role
Working Party on
Chemicals, Pesticides and
Biotechnology
• Working Group on National
Co‑ordinators of Test Guidelines
Programme
• Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment
• Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment
• Joint Meetings of Tax and Environment Experts
• Ad Hoc Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
• Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action
Programme in Central and Eastern Europe (EAP)
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Environment Directorate (ENV)
The Environment Directorate is a multicultural team, encompassing some 100 international civil servants: economists, policy
analysts, statisticians and administrative staff.
We are an extension to national governments’ analytical capacity, providing policy-relevant analysis and recommendations based
on reliable environmental data, outlooks and cross-country experiences. We help countries to design environmental policies that
are both economically efficient and effective at achieving their environmental objectives.
We also provide a forum for governments and representatives from business and civil society for constructive dialogue on how
best to develop and implement environmental policies across OECD and other countries.
The ENV management team members are:
Director’s Office
Simon Upton
Helen Mountford
Director
Deputy Director
simon.upton@oecd.org
helen.mountford@oecd.org
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 14 56
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 79 13
Central Management and Committee Branch
Kumi Kitamori
Amy Plantin
Consellor
Head of Unit and Executive Secretary to EPOC
kumi.kitamoir@oecd.org
amy.plantin@oecd.org
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 92 02
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 93 08
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38. OECD work on
C
limate Change, Biodiversity
and Water Division
Environment and Economy Integration Division
Anthony Cox
Shardul Agrawala
Head of Division
Head of Division
anthony.cox@oecd.org
shardul.agrawala@oecd.org
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 95 64
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 16 65
Environment, Health and Safety Division
E
nvironmental Performance
and Information Division
Bob Diderich
Brendan Gillespie
Head of Division
Head of Division
Bob.diderich@oecd.org
brendan.gillespie@oecd.org
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 14 85
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 93 02
Accession Unit
Green Growth Strategy
Eija Kiiskinen
Nathalie Girouard
Head of Unit
Co-ordinator
eija.kiiskinen@oecd.org
nathalie.girouard@oecd.org
Tel.: +33 1 45 24 18 40
© OECD 2013
Environment
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Recent Flasghip Publications
Environmental
A Framework for
Energy and Climate
Sustainable Materials
Environmental
Outlook to 2050:
Financing Water
Policy: Bending
Management - Making
Performance Reviews
The Consequences
Resources Management
the Technological
Better Use of Resources
of Inaction
Trajectories
Forthcoming Flasghip Publications
• OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Mexico, Italy, Austria,
• Material Resources, Productivity and the Environment (2013)
South Africa (2013); Colombia, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, Spain
• Water Security: Managing Risks, Improving Resilience (2013)
(2014)
• Water and Climate Change Adaptation: Policies to Navigate
• Effective Carbon Prices (2013)
Unchartered Waters (2013)
• Environment at a Glance (2013)
• Managing Water for Green Growth (2013)
• Greening Household Behaviour: Responses from the Second
• Green Finance and Investment: The Case of Climate Change
Survey (2013)
(2013)
Environment Working Papers: This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on environmental
issues prepared for use within the OECD. www.oecd.org/env/workingpapers
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40. OECD work on
Environment
Selected Databases
OECD/EEA Instruments Database
Information on environmentally-related taxes, fees and charges, tradable permits systems, deposit-refund systems,
environmentally motivated subsidies and voluntary approaches. www.oecd.org/env/policies/database
Value of Statistical Life (VSL)
Data used in a meta-analysis of value of statistical life estimates from stated preferences surveys in environment, health and
traffic risk contexts. www.oecd.org/env/policies/vsl
Transboundary Movement of Wastes destined for Recovery Operations
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Recovery Operations”. www.oecd.org/env/waste/database
eChemPortal
A Global Portal for information on properties of chemical substances. www.oecd.org/ehs/eChemPortal
Research on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials
Information on research projects that address safety issues of manufactured nanomaterials. www.oecd.org/env/nanosafety/database
Biotech Products Database
Information and unique identifiers on products derived from using modern biotechnology which have been approved for
commercial application. www.oecd.org/biotrack/productdatabase
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