sustainable development

To address climate change and the rest of the Sustainable Development Agenda, we must do more to enhance emerging markets’ and developing countries’ revenues, so that they can make the necessary investments. As…

The Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab (STL Lab), in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate (CRE) and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has announced its first round of…

Image of the NASA/RPI poster created for the FUNding Friday event at the 2022 ESIP Summer Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Credit: ESIP.The right conditions can be the catalyst to release the potential energy of an idea. Such a catalyst…

  GREEN SKILLS AND INNOVATION FOR INCLUSIVE EMPLOYMENT GROWTH 14 February 2014, OECD Headquarters - Paris, France   The Forum / Purpose / Themes / Where & Who / Contact     The Forum ‌The challenges of…

  16/03/2017 - Korea has improved access to environmental services and become a world leader in climate change mitigation technology. However, it will need to accelerate its green growth reforms to temper the…

The 2019 National Forum on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform organized in collaboration with the Mongolia Ministry of Labour and Social Protection will focus on “Quality TVET Reform for Sustainable…

  07/05/2014 - The OECD’s 34 member countries today affirmed their common resolve to work towards a deal on combating climate change at the COP21 talks in Paris in 2015. OECD accession countries Colombia and…

How can governments get organised to reach the ambition embodied in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals? This event provided a focused discussion on how governments can tackle some of the governance challenges that are inherent to the…

  Opening Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, 14 May 2014, Berlin, Germany (As prepared for delivery) Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a pleasure to share some ideas with you about climate change and what…

  21/05/14 – Air pollution is costing advanced economies plus China and India an estimated USD 3.5 trillion a year in premature deaths and ill health and the costs will rise without government action to limit…

  10 June 2014, OECD Conference Centre, Paris Background   The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in…

Nanotechnology and Tyres: Greening Industry and Transport | en | OECD …

  UN Climate Summit, New York Side Event: Curbing illicit financial flows for domestic resource mobilisation and sustainable development in the post-2015 era   Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General 24…

FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index - OECD …

OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment & Footwear Sector The garment and footwear sector is one of the largest consumer goods sectors in the world. Adopted in 2017, the OECD Due Diligence…

Japan-OECD Policy Forum on Urban Development and Green Growth - OECD …

  11/11/2014 - Southeast Asia’s over-reliance on natural resources like oil, gas, minerals and wood for economic growth is unsustainable over the long term and is causing environmental damage that will hurt…

  Griffith University Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General Brisbane, 13 November 2014As prepared for deliveryLadies and gentlemen,I am delighted to be here today to discuss with you the G20 Brisbane…

Rintaro Tamaki Deputy Secretary-General, OECD Rintaro Tamaki was appointed Deputy Secretary-General on August 1, 2011. His portfolio includes Environment, Inclusive Growth, Fiscal Issues, Development, Green Growth and…

  Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the High-Level Panel on Infrastructure Financing for a Water Secure World    26 November 2014, Paris, France(As prepared for delivery)     Dear…

    On 29-30 January 2015, the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) held its Third Annual Conference on the theme of “Fiscal Policies and the Green Economy Transition: Generating Knowledge – Creating Impact”,…

  Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development. Reframing Climate & Competitiveness  Paris, FranceTuesday 3rd February, 2015 – 09.00  …

  02/03/2015 - The OECD’s latest Environmental Performance Review of Spain finds the country has decreased the energy and carbon intensity of its economy, reduced industrial pollution and cut per-capita waste…

  Platform | Previous activities | Contact   In December 2012, the OECD launched a project on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia (PDF).  Building on the work of the OECD Green Cities Programme, this project…

The fates of humanity and of the environment are two sides of the same coin. That is why we must focus increasingly on not just development but sustainable development. To do that, we need to form global coalitions to work for progress…

Climate change and, more generally, environmental damage have quantifiable economic and health costs, which weigh on long-term growth and well-being. If left unchecked, climate change is projected to decrease global GDP by 0.7 to 2.5%…

  23/04/2015 - Poland has combined robust economic growth with reducing some of the pressures on its environment since it joined the EU in 2004. It has also brought environmental laws closer to European norms.…

A transition to a low-carbon economy is achievable, but will require a concerted, more consistent effort across a range of policy areas, from tradeable permits to stringent norms. The climate is changing–not for the better, but for…

In this ongoing series on climate issues, MIT faculty, students, and alumni in the humanistic fields share perspectives that are significant for solving climate change and mitigating its myriad social and…

According to shocking new research by Oxfam, the world’s richest 1% will, on current trends, own more than half the world’s wealth by 2016. Wealthy individuals have sustained their vast riches particularly through a few important…

The year 2015 is the International Year of Soils. It is also the year the UN Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000 expire, and are to be replaced by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 goals and their 169 targets cover…

Is it possible for 9 billion people to live on this planet and enjoy a good standard of living? And on such a planet, is it possible for economies to grow, businesses to profit, and communities to prosper without undermining the…

In the coming months, the international community will gather three times and on three different continents, to build a sustainable development agenda for generations to come. In July we will meet in Addis Ababa to agree on a…

The international discussions under way in the course of this vital year–including July’s Finance for Development Meeting in Addis Ababa, the agreement of a new set of universal Sustainable Development Goals at the UN in September and…

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, which we are honoured to chair, will address the issue of investment. The timing could not be better. Growth prospects have improved, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Investment…

  Business & Climate Summit, Opening Plenary Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD Paris, France Wednesday 20 May 2015     Ministers, Dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, This meeting is a…

  This workshop, held on 20 May 2015, at the OECD Headquarters built upon discussions of green investment banks at the OECD Green Investment Financing Forums (June 2014 and May 2015) and provided the opportunity…

“Neither economists nor market participants, nor indeed governments foresaw a financial crisis of the type and magnitude we have now. The collapse of trust and subsequent credit freeze in the wake of the Lehman Brothers collapse was a…

   10, 11, 12 July 2018    Montreal, Canada (ICAO conference building) The OECD Global Forum on the Environment: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development was organised as a series of three…

For many years one of the predominant conventional wisdoms in both business and policymaking circles was that cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions necessitates a sacrifice in economic growth. We now know, through the experiences of…

For the past decade or so, there has been a lot of debate in policy circles on how to get governments and the private sector to work together more collaboratively in order to catalyse the transition to green growth. The good news is…

  4/06/2015 - Ministers from OECD’s 34 member countries today welcomed the new OECD Principles on Water Governance, which set standards for more effective, efficient and inclusive design and implementation of…

  04/06/2015 - OECD ministers have closed two days of discussions on how to unlock investment in order to promote strong, green and inclusive growth, boost productivity and create jobs.   Chaired by the…

  25/06/2015 - Governments are under-utilising taxation as a tool to curb the environmental consequences of energy use, foregoing revenue and weakening their attack on the principal source of greenhouse gas…

  21/09/2015 - Government support to fossil fuel consumption and production in OECD countries and key emerging economies remains high, at USD 160-200 billion annually, according to a new OECD report. This support…

  20/10/2015 - Advanced and emerging economies have made progress in addressing climate change, yet most are on a trajectory that would see them fall short of their mitigation goals. Governments need to…

Southeast Asia Expert Seminar: Aligning Policies for the Transition to a low-carbon Economy - Reconciling Environmental, Social and Economic Objectives - OECD …

COP21: Climate change in figures - OECD …

  07/12/2015 – OECD urges efforts to better price carbon as new analysis finds that 90% of CO2-emissions are priced below EUR 30 per tonne, a low-end estimate of climate damage, and 60% are not priced at all.…

  Day 1 - Opening Remarks ‌ Angel Gurría Secretary-General, OECD As OECD Secretary-General, since June 2006, he has reinforced the OECD's role as a ‘hub” for global dialogue and debate on economic policy issues while pursuing…