This publication was prepared by the OECD Environment Directorate, under the leadership of Director Rodolfo Lacy and the subsidiary Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division led by Simon Buckle. The project managers are Katia Karousakis and Jane Ellis. The authors are William Symes, Katia Karousakis and Jane Ellis, with substantive input from Janek Toepper and David Gawith (both formerly ENV/CBW).
The work benefited from the presentations and discussion at the OECD workshop on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Agriculture: Towards Coherent Approaches, held on 25 October, 2017.
The authors would also like to thank the following OECD colleagues for their useful comments and suggestions during the drafting of this publication: Guillaume Gruére, Gwendolyn DeBoe, Santiago Gurrero, Ben Henderson, Jussi Lankoski, Morvarid Bagherzadeh, Urzula Ziebinska (TAD/ARP), Gregoire Garsous (TAD/EPI), Shunta Yamaguchi, Peter Borkey (ENV/EEI), Rob Youngman, Xavier Leflaive, Gerard Bonnis, Hélène Blake, Lisa Danielson, Edward Perry and Simon Buckle (ENV/CBW). Feedback and comments from delegates of the Working Parties on Climate, Investment and Development (WPCID) and Biodiversity, Water and Ecosystems (WPBWE) are gratefully acknowledged, as are comments from the Joint Working Parties on Agriculture and Environment (JWPAE) and Trade and Environment (JWPTE) Nassera Belkhiter, Elodie Prata-Leal and Innes Reale provided administrative support in the preparation of this publication.
The OECD gratefully acknowledges the financial support and detailed review from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Environment Protection Agency of Ireland. The authors would also like to thank the Ministère de la Transition Écologique et Solidaire of France for providing case study information. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Environment Protection Agency of Ireland or the Ministère de la Transition Écologique et Solidaire of France.