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2022 BLOG posts
- How are climate change perceptions influenced by the economy and extreme weather events?
- How to finance the net-zero transition of industry in emerging economies?
- Solving global environmental emergencies: are financial actors playing their part?
- Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water
- Wildfires in Europe: towards a “new normal”? / Feux de forêt en Europe : Vont-ils devenir la norme ?
- Limiting environmental impacts through unused or expired medicine
- Enabling conditions for bioenergy finance and investment in Colombia
- Norway’s environmental performance: “Are we as green as we think we are?”
- Recovering from the pandemic while facing the climate and energy crisis
- The road to a sustainable tomorrow: Tracking a COVID-19 gender-sensitive and green recovery | March (on the occasion of International Women Day)
- High tide for ocean data: How to enrich ocean-related data gathering
- Rediscover our top 5 blogs of 2021
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The blogs and articles featured below cover a range of environmental topics and were written by OECD experts and published on a variety of OECD or external platforms. Search by theme:
| Air pollution | Biodiversity | Climate change | ||
| Environmental Outlook | Green growth | Waste | ||
| Water | World Environment Day | World Water Day |
Air pollution
- Deep reductions in CO₂ are not enough | 2021
- Are lower pollution levels really the silver lining of the Covid-19 pandemic? | 2021
- Carbon tax, emissions reduction and employment: Some evidence from France / Taxe carbone : quel impact environnemental et économique dans le secteur manufacturier français ? | 2020
- OECD Observer: The long flight towards clean aviation | 2017
- OECD Observer: Fossil fuel subsidies - Phase them out! | 2017
- Urgent action on air pollution in India makes economic sense | 2017
- Air pollution: Tyre and brake fatigue compound an exhausting problem | 2016
- Love where you live, but love it more with cleaner air | 2016
- Flabber-gassed by our noxious air: can electric vehicles save us? | 2016
- Air pollution and diesel: from theory to practice | 2015
- In the absence of Marty and Doc's time machine... | 2015
- Air pollution, the invisible killer | 2014
- The dangers of breathing at work | 2014
Biodiversity
- Bigger Biodiversity Benefits for your Buck: How economic instruments can help safeguard nature [également disponible en version française] | 2021
- Securing natural capital on land | 2020
- Time for Nature: Is a global public health crisis what it takes to protect the planet’s biodiversity? | 2020
- Building Biodiversity-Friendly Economies | 2018
- Under the sea by OECD Observer | 2017
- What does mainstreaming biodiversity means? | 2016
- Behold the power of fungus... and biodiversity offsets | 2014
- Why biodiversity matters | 2013
- Biodiversity: what's it worth to you? | 2010
Climate change
- Recovering from the pandemic while facing the climate and energy crisis | 2022
- COP26: Big steps forward on adaptation and resilience | 2021
- Managing climate risks in mountainous areas | 2021
- Deliberative democracy: A bottom up approach to solving the climate crisis | 2021
- Building it “right” in African cities — not back better | 2021
- Building resilience to natural disaster risk in agriculture | 2021
- Changing climate, changing coasts: Why resilience matters | 2021
- Climate resilience is essential for a sustainable financing system [également disponible en version française] | 2021
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation: Managing two sides of the same coin | 2021
- Let’s choose to challenge the climate crisis with a gender lens | 2021
- 2021: Adaptation comes to the fore | 2021
- Harnessing nature to tackle the climate emergency | 2021
- Seeing the value in climate science | 2021
- Is the Covid-19 crisis spurring a transition to net-zero emissions in the oil and gas sector? | 2020
- COVID-19 and the climate crisis: Combining green budgeting and tax policy tools for a better recovery | 2020
- Towards a Clean Energy Transition in Viet Nam | 2020
- 5 things we learned at the OECD Wildfires Conference | 2020
- TEG it easy: The landmark EU Sustainable Taxonomy takes shape | 2020
- Empowering women as clean energy entrepreneurs | 2020
- Carbon tax, emissions reduction and employment: Some evidence from France / Taxe carbone : quel impact environnemental et économique dans le secteur manufacturier français ? | 2020
- Fighting the climate emergency? Enter national development banks | 2019
- Digital planet: How smart technologies can help us solve our climate and infrastructure challenges | 2019
- Energy sector SOEs: You have the power! | 2018
- Green budgeting can spur governments to improve our planet's bottom line | 2018
- Climate change: Is shipping finally on board? | 2017
- Blending finance for climate and poverty action | 2017
- Managing earth: The land-water-energy nexus | 2017
- Renewed international commitment needed to fight climate change | 2017
- OECD Observer: Fossil fuel subsidies - Phase them out! | 2017
- Tracking climate finance: Progress and challenges | 2017
- Water and climate: From Risk mangement to investment opportunity | 2017
- Investment in renewable energy: What policy makers must do to make it happen | 2017
- Renewed international commitment needed to fight climate change | 2017
- Climate-resilient Infrastructure: Getting the Policies Right | 2017
- Bridging the green investment gap in Latin America: what role for national development finance institutions? | 2017
- Carbon prices are still far too low to prevent climate change | 2017
- Moving forward on climate: Looking beyond narrow interests | 2017
- What’s Good for the Climate Can Be Good for Growth Too | 2017
- The government role in mobilising investment and innovation in renewable energy | 2017
- What’s holding back investment and innovation in renewable energy? | 2017
- What's Good for the Climate Can Be Good for Growth Too" | 2017
- Climate: Towards a just transition, with no stranded workers and no stranded communities | 2017
- Can green bonds fuel the low-carbon transition? | 2017
- Turning groundwater into farmers' underground insurance against climate change | 2017
- Resistance is futile. Higher carbon prices needed to guide the transition to carbon neutral growth | 2016
- The climate scientist and the teacher | 2016
- Can a shipping levvy affect the growth of Passive House in Australia | 2016
- Carbon emissions all at sea: why was shipping left out of the Paris Climate Agreement? | 2016
- The other CCS | 2016
- Post Paris, should we be going for CCCS = Compulsory Carbon Capture and Storage? | 2016
- COP21 was decades in the making, so how do we make future decades work for climate? | 2016
- COP21 on the Insights blog
- How OECD and IEA contributed to COP21 | 2015
- COP21 agreement: A decisive turn point by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | 2015
- Climate disclosure: knoweledge powers change by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | 2015
- A Californian enigma: Record-high agricultural revenues during the most severe drought in history | 2015
- OECD Insights on COP21 | 2015
- Two secrets concerning a value chain approach to coprorate climate change risk management | 2015
- The Haze Surrounding Climate Mitigation Statistics | 2015
- If this is a war on emissions, governments need a strong arsenal | 2015
- Dear Coal: it's not you, it's me... | 2015
- Investing in the future: People, planet, prosperity | 2015
- Overcoming Barriers to International Investment in Clean Energy | 2015
- Saving Every Drop: How the OECD Reduces its Environmental Footprint | 2015
- Carbon Pricing: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? by Liisa-Maija Harju, Operations Service | 2015
- Climate, Carbon, COP21 and Beyond | 2015
- Let’s talk money: What will it take to save our planet? | 2015
- Time is of the essence: can Indonesia phase out energy subsidies without hurting the poor? | 2015
- We must change faster than the climate | 2015
- The opportunities and challenges of greener growth: Getting the whole policy package right | 2015
- The Earth Statement: for an ambitious, science-based, equitable outcome to COP21 in Paris | 2015
- Climate change: Price carbon now, before low-cost oil says "ciao" | 2015
- Band-aids won't save the polar bears: smarter climate adaptation needed | 2015
- A clearer picture of climate-related finance | 2014
- The climate is chaning, so should we! | 2014
- There's no bailout option for the climate | 2014
- Building a case for green private investment | 2014
- Rain doesn't follow the plow: climate change, agriculture and water | 2014
- Wake up and save the coffee: making development climate-resilient | 2014
- IPCC and climate change risks: what would you do? | 2014
- A call for zero net emissions | 2014
- Reducing fossil fuel emissions isn’t enough: We must aim for their complete elimination by the 2nd half of the century | 2013
- Better Plays for Better Lives: A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 2013
- Avoiding death by diesel | 2013
- Climate change: Fisheries too | 2012
- Climate: The Doha Round | 2012
- Climate Change Ethics: where to start? | 2010
- Climate change: E-mailstrom | 2010
Environmental Outlook
Green growth
- The green recovery: an opportunity to address inequalities? | 2021
- The challenges of greening urban mobility in the post-pandemic era | 2020
- OECD Observer: Greening France | 2017
- Making sure the Blue Economy is Green | 2017
- Urban green growth is about asking the right questions at the right time | 2016
- Playing the Long Game: Urban Green Growth, Spatial Planning and Land Use | 2016
- Redefining an industrial revolution: 2015 OECD Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum | 2015
- Green and growing, or ripe and rotting? | 2015
- Transport, trade and tourism | 2015
- The Sharing Economy: How shared self-driving cars could change city traffic | 2015
- The opportunities and challenges of greener growth: Getting the whole policy package right | 2015
- Mainstreaming Green Growth: Venice, the ideal place to wade through the issues | 2015
- Death and taxis: Why the Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum matters | 2014
- The arithmetick of green growth | 2012
- Not just for the rich: Green growth and developing countries | 2012
- Is green growth just a fantasy? Knowlegdge, innovation and the promise of a better life for all | 2011
- Towards a green growth strategy | 2011
Waste
- The price of plastic waste and solutions to turn the tide | 2021
- Can modelling help better understand the transition to a more circular economy? | 2021
- The price of plastic waste and solutions to turn the tide | 2021
- COVID-19 and the looming plastics pandemic | 2020
- Never let water go to waste | 2019
- "Oceanfills": Yet another dumping ground | 2017
- Down in the dumps | 2015
- Circular logic: why we don't have to destroy to develop | 2015
- Making obsolescence obsolete: design to reduce waste | 2014
- Message in a bottle: Producers not tax payers should pay for the waste they generate | 2014
- Managing our natural resources: can we build more with less? | 2014
- Waste management: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? | 2012
Water
- see OECD Observer articles on water
- Water: Key to Food Systems Sustainability | 2021
- Flood watch on the river Seine: A return to 1910? | 2018
- City on the edge: Paris faces yet another major flood | 2018
- Rice and risks in the Mekong River Delta | 2018
- Rising sea levels: Will we adapt or drown? | 2017
- Water and climate: From Risk mangement to investment opportunity | 2017
- Managing earth: The land-water-energy nexus | 2017
- Making sure the Blue Economy is Green | 2017
- Under the sea by OECD Observer | 2017
- Diffuse water pollution: an invisible and growing threat | 2017
- Turning groundwater into farmers' underground insurance against climate change | 2017
- Paris flood: A local disaster, a global challenge | 2016
- Carbon emissions all at sea: why was shipping left out of the Paris Climate Agreement? | 2016
- The trillion dollar ocean | 2016
- Floods, droughts and doubts | 2016
- Californian enigma: Record-high agricultural revenues during the most severe drought in history | 2015
- Diving into empty pools | 2015
- Cities slickers and water security: governments getting their hands dirty | 2015
- The Ripple Effect: Water-Energy-Food Nexus | 2014
- Partnership for water security | 2014
- Rain doesn't follow the plow: climate change, agriculture and water | 2014
- Fighting the tide: Preparing for the water-related impacts of climate change | 2014
- OECD celebrates World Toilet Day | 2013
- World Water Day: Big problems but there are solutions | 2013
- Water stewardship: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? | 2012
- Where is our water going? | 2010
- Clean water, cold vaccines, cell phones = a simple way to save lives | 2010
OECD and World Environment Day (5 June)
- Time for Nature: Is a global public health crisis what it takes to protect the planet’s biodiversity? | 2020
- Saving Every Drop: How the OECD Reduces its Environmental Footprint | 2015
- Carbon Pricing: Does the OECD practice what it preaches? | 2015
- Air pollution, the invisible killer | 2014
- Managing our natural resources: can we build more with less? | 2014
- The dangers of breathing at work | 2014
- Greening household behaviour | 2013
- Putting green growth at the heart of development | 2013
OECD and World Water Day (22 March)
- Diffuse water pollution: an invisible and growing threat | 2017
- Big problems but there are solutions | 2013
More themes
Chemicals
- Nanomaterials: tiny particles, big questions | 2021
- Regulating groups of chemicals: A cost-effective option for chemical safety | 2020
- Why is there a shortage of disinfectants during the COVID-19 crisis? | 2020
COVID-19 and environment
- Recovering from the pandemic while facing the climate and energy crisis | 2022
- Are lower pollution levels really the silver lining of the Covid-19 pandemic? | 2021
- Greening the recovery from COVID-19: how sustainable will it be? | 2021
- Is the Covid-19 crisis spurring a transition to net-zero emissions in the oil and gas sector? | 2020
- COVID-19 and the climate crisis: Combining green budgeting and tax policy tools for a better recovery | 2020
- The challenges of greening urban mobility in the post-pandemic era | 2020
- COVID-19 and the looming plastics pandemic | 2020
- Déja vu all over again …. Or is it? Learning from the past to green the COVID-19 recovery | 2020
- Why is there a shortage of disinfectants during the COVID-19 crisis? | 2020
Ecological Footprint
- Why is the OECD looking at the environment? | 2019
- What is the environmental footprint of Christmas? | 2019
- "Ecological Footprint" leaving a trail at OECD | 2015
Education and environment
- Environmental education: Knowledge is power! | 2020
- Think Green: education and environmental awareness | 2014
Gender and environment
- The road to a sustainable tomorrow: Tracking a COVID-19 gender-sensitive and green recovery | 2022
- The green recovery: an opportunity to address inequalities? | 2021
- Let’s choose to challenge the climate crisis with a gender lens | 2021
- Empowering women as clean energy entrepreneurs | 2020
Greening household behaviour
- Seing paradigm change | 2015
- If the tortoise can do it, anyone can: greening household behaviour | 2015
Green recovery
- Recovering from the pandemic while facing the climate and energy crisis | 2022
- The green recovery: an opportunity to address inequalities? | 2021
- Greening the recovery from COVID-19: how sustainable will it be? | 2021
Nitrogen
Ocean
- High tide for ocean data: How to enrich ocean-related data gathering | 2022
- Changing climate, changing coasts: Why resilience matters | 2021
- The price of plastic waste and solutions to turn the tide | 2021
- The case for sustainable ocean finance | 2020
- "Oceanfills": Yet another dumping ground | 2017
- OECD OBserver: Greening France | 2017
- Making sure the Blue Economy is Green | 2017
Sustainable Development
- Challenges Facing Asia and Pacific in Terms of Sustainable Development | 2016
- Measuring Mutlidimensional Well-being and Sustainable Development | 2016
Sustainable Development Goals
- Environmental education: Knowledge is power! | 2020
- The Sustainable Development Goals and Development Co-operation | 2016
- A Policy Pathfinder for the Sustaianble Development Goals | 2016
- The Implications of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for the OECD | 2016
- The Sustainabale Development Goals: A Duty and an Opportunity | 2016
- The importance of a Policy Coherence Lens for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals | 2016
Transport
- Transport, trade and tourism | 2015
- The Sharing Economy: How shared self-driving cars could change city traffic | 2015
Urban sprawl
- Steering urban sprawl | 2018
World Toilet Day
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