This report is part of the work programme of the OECD’s Environmental Policy Committee and benefited from feedback and inputs. The work was carried out by Aimée Aguilar Jaber and Mariana Mirabile from the mitigation team of the OECD’s Environment, Transitions and Resilience (ETR) Division. Simon Buckle, Head of the ETR Division provided inputs, support and guidance at different stages. The report was produced under the overall guidance of Rodolfo Lacy, the Director of the Environment Directorate of the OECD and benefited from the input of delegates to its Working Party on Climate, Investment and Development, OECD colleagues and external experts. This report also substantially benefitted from the generous support of the Japanese government.
Authors are grateful for the valuable comments and inputs from OECD colleagues from the Environment Directorate: Daniel Nachtigall, Brilé Anderson, Emily Neeson, Sirini Jeudy-Hugo, Katia Karousakis, Xavier Leflaive, Edward Perry, Dirk Röttgers, Matilda Saarinen; from the International Energy Agency: Luca Lo Re; Daniel Crow; from the International Transport Forum: Stephen Perkins; Joshua Paternina Blanco; Tatiana Samsonova.
Authors would also like to thank Joss Colchester (Systems Innovation), William Hynes (OECD, New Approaches to Economic Challenges), and OECD colleagues from the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) and the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), whose work greatly inspired the Well-Being Lens process presented in this report, as well as to Jack Harich (Thwink), Hannah Härtwich (Systems mapper), and Antoni Oliva (22Sistema) for their feedback and support on systems dynamics.
Special thanks to the experts having contributed to the report, namely Oliver Chaplin (United Kingdom Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Ralph Chapman (Victoria University of Wellington); Yves Crozet (CERRE), Jose Iracheta Carroll (INSUS), Peter Jones (UCL Bartlett School of Planning), Giulio Mattioli (Universität Dortmund), Salvador Rueda (Fundación Ecología Urbana y Territorial), Vicente Torres (Urbvan), Eduardo López Moreno (UN-habitat) and Samie Raichs Tovany (UN-habitat).
Authors are are also grateful to Sama Al Taher Cucci (ENV/OECD) and Beth Del Bourgo (ENV/OECD) for their communications support, Elodie Prata-Leal for her support in formatting the report, Jennifer Allain for her support in editing the report, and to Jan Kamensky for the cover image.