Curbing emissions and pollution is crucial in ensuring that the gains in growth and well-being are sustainable in the long term. Hence, environmental considerations are key in the setting of national and global reform priorities.
A clean and healthy environment is essential for supporting economic activity and well-being in the long-term. Practically every economic and leisure activity – as well as life itself - has broadly-defined environment as a key input and could not exist without it. However, the relationship between the environment and GDP growth per se is more complex.
Decarbonising economies under diverse national approaches
This programme of work investigates the design and implementation of comprehensive mitigation policy mixes and ways to enhance their social acceptability. Effective and socially acceptable mitigation policy mixes can reduce emissions while boosting growth and social cohesion.
This programme of work focuses on assessing the impacts of climate policies on emissions and economic outcomes, including investment, trade, employment, productivity, energy security and growth.
Adaptation action is lagging and insufficient to meet current and future climate-change risks. This programme of work in collaboration with the OECD Environment Directorate investigates the design and implementation of adaptation strategies and policies while continuing to pursue mitigation efforts.
Financial markets play a key role in providing the capital needed for development and deployment of clean technologies and funding large-scale green investments. This programme of work investigates the interactions between climate, monetary and financial policies with the view to accelerating the shift of capital towards low-emission technologies and green investment projects.
