Environment
OECD work on environment helps countries design and implement effective policies to address environmental problems and sustainably manage natural resources. It examines the linkages between the environment and economic, sectoral or social concerns in the various key topics below.
The Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060 presents a set of coherent projections on plastics to 2060, including plastics use, waste as well as the environmental impacts linked to plastics, especially leakage to the environment. Such an outlook on plastics can help policy makers understand the scale of the challenge to transition to a more sustainable and circular use of plastics and the need for additional policy action.
Environment at a Glance
Discover the OECD’s online platform for environmental indicators, which are crucial in tracking environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.
The International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC) supports countries’ efforts to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, by evaluating national and international policies to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, providing policy advice and sharing best practices.
OECD work for a sustainable ocean
Working with both developed and developing countries, the OECD aims to ensure that all societies can harness the benefits of the ocean on a sustainable and inclusive basis.
Data for #ClimateAction
The OECD repository of international data and indicators on climate change provides essential information for effective climate policies. Navigate the data, explore emissions by country and by sector, and countries’ energy mix, and learn more about country policies including carbon pricing, fossil fuel subsidies and investment in renewable energy.
Latest news
FOCUS ON GREEN RECOVERY: Read the policy responses
- 7-9 Feb Event: Roundtable on Financing Water
- 22 Dec Database: Update of the OECD database on transboundary movements of wastes
- 21 Dec Blog post: Different paths to net-zero - Assessing the effectiveness of diverse climate mitigation approaches
- 20 Dec Policy Paper: Synergies and trade-offs in the transition to a resource-efficient and circular economy
- More news
Key topics
- Air pollution
- Agriculture and environment
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- Climate change
- Chemical safety and biosafety
- Circular economy
- Consumption, innovation and the environment
- Development and environment
- Emerging and transition economies
- Environment policy tools and evaluation
- Environmental country reviews
- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Fossil fuels
- Gender, inclusiveness and the SDGs
- Green finance and investment
- Green growth and sustainable development
- Greening transport
- Indicators, modelling and outlooks
- The ocean
- Plastics
- Resource productivity and waste
- Trade and the environment
- Water
Green Talks Webinars
The OECD Green Talks Live webinar series brings world experts together on pressing environmental issues for a global audience:
- These free webinars are open to the general public;
- Participants are welcome to pose questions during the Q&A segment.
Join the conversation
OECD Environment is also online via Linkedin.
Environment Focus Blog
The Environment Focus Blog aims to increase dialogue on a variety of environmental topics among policy makers, experts and the general public.
Blogs are authored by OECD policy experts and invited guests who write about their current field of research and aim to reach a wider global audience to generate discussion.
See a full list of OECD blogs and articles related to the environment.
Events
Newsletters
The OECD regularly publishes newsletters featuring the latest publications, analysis, events, Green Talks LIVE webinars, articles and blogs related to environment, chemical safety and biosafety and green growth and sustainable development. Sign up for our newsletters on:
» Environment;
Videos
Biodiversity
Climate change
Indicators
Water
- Watch OECD Environment videos:
- 1. Environment YouTube channel
- 2. Environment playlist in the OECD channel
Read our books
Our books related to environment address the following topics:
- biodiversity, climate change, chemical safety and biosafety, environmental country reviews, data and indicators, emerging and transition economies, green finance and investment, green growth, resource productivity and waste and water.
Access our data
The OECD collects and analyses vast amounts of data every year to fuel its research. OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
