This report was developed by the OECD Environment Directorate, directed by Rodolfo Lacy, and the Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division, led by Simon Buckle. The report was authored by Catherine Gamper, Mikaela Rambali and Brooke Demchuk under the guidance of Xavier Leflaive, Head of the Resilience, Adaptation and Water (RAW) team. The report benefitted from substantive contributions from Lisa Danielson on the policy evaluation framework as well as on the country case studies.
This report would not have been made possible without the commitment and significant contributions from country colleagues who co-ordinated the case study work in Mexico and the United Kingdom, namely Iris Adriana Jimenez Castillo (Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources) and Bethany Green (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). The Secretariat is grateful for receiving considerable inputs from a number of different agencies. In Mexico, these included: the National Center for Prevention of Disasters (Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres), the National Forestry Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal), the National Water Commission (Comisión Nacional del Agua), the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas), the National Commission of Arid Zones (Comisión Nacional de las Zonas Aridas), the General Directorate of Policies for Climate Change (Dirección General de Políticas para el Cambio Climático), the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático), the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). In the United Kingdom, these included: the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency, the Forestry Commission, the Knepp Estate, Mott MacDonald, Natural England, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Rivers Trust, the Tweed Forum and the Water Level Management Alliance in the United Kingdom (further details in Annex 2.A and 3.A).
The report benefitted from valuable comments and suggestions throughout a number of iterations from Marta Arbinolo, Helene Blake, Nicolina Lamhauge, Helen Laubenstein, Stephanie Lyons, Michael Mullan, Delia Sanchez Trancon and Edward Perry. Editorial assistance was provided by Jennifer Alain and administrative support from Ines Reale.
The Secretariat would also like to thank the 110 participants for their valuable feedback and suggestions provided during the thematic meeting jointly organised for delegates of the Working Parties on Biodiversity, Water and Ecosystems (WPBWE) and Climate, Investment and Development (WPCID) as well as the Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation (TFCCA) on 3 March 2021.