This report has been authored by Andrew McCarthy, Matthias Helf, and Peter Börkey of the OECD Environment Directorate. The authors are grateful to delegates of the Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. They would also like to thank Frithjof Laubinger for his substantive inputs and the editing of the publication and Ruben Bibas for his advice and feedback. Laura Dockings and Soojin Jeong provided editorial assistance. The authors are responsible for any remaining omissions or errors.
Work on this report was conducted under the overall supervision of Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division of the OECD’s Environment Directorate.
Finally, this work would not have been possible without the generous financial support of Japan, Germany, Korea, The Netherlands and Switzerland.