OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030

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Preface by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General

Executive Summary

Introduction: Context and Methodology

THE WORLD TO 2030 – THE CONSEQUENCES OF POLICY INACTION

I. Drivers of Environmental Change

Chapter 1. Consumption, Production and Technology
Chapter 2. Population Dynamics and Demographics
Chapter 3. Economic Development
Chapter 4. Globalisation
Chapter 5. Urbanisation
Chapter 6. Key Variations to the Standard Expectation to 2030

II. Impacts of Environmental Change
Chapter 7. Climate Change
Chapter 8. Air Pollution
Chapter 9. Biodiversity
Chapter 10. Freshwater
Chapter 11. Waste and Material Flows
Chapter 12. Health and Environment
Chapter 13. Cost of Policy Inaction

POLICY RESPONSES

III. Sectoral Developments and Policies
Chapter 14. Agriculture
Chapter 15. Fisheries and Aquaculture
Chapter 16. Transport
Chapter 17. Energy
Chapter 18. Chemicals
Chapter 19. Selected Industries: Steel and cement, Pulp and paper, Tourism and Mining

IV. Putting the Policies Together
Chapter 20. Environmental Policy Packages
Chapter 21. Institutions and Approaches for Policy Implementation
Chapter 22. Global Environmental Co-operation

Annex A. Regional Environmental Implications
Annex B. Modelling Framework
 

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Press material

Press releases

• 2008 OECD Environmental Outlook: How much will it cost to address today’s key environmental problems? 
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: How much will it cost to fix the environment? - 5 March, Oslo

Webcast

•  Watch the news conference on the Norwegian government website.

Speeches

• Keynote Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the Seminar on “Sustainable Development and Climate Change: International and National Perspectives” [Oslo, 06/03/08]
• Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General for the official launch of the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 [Oslo, 05/03/08]

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Multilingual Summaries

Additional information

Background document

• Background report to the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030; Overviews, details, and methodology of model-based analysis
  This background report provides overviews and details of the model-based analyses for the Outlook. The global analyses have been conducted for 24 regions. They cover climate change; urban air pollution and related health impacts; nutrient loading to the aquatic environment by agriculture and by trends in sanitation and sewerage; terrestrial biodiversity.

Related Events

• Official Visit of the Secretary-General to Norway (Olso, 4-6 March 2008)
• Meeting of OECD Environment Ministers (Paris, 28-29 April 2008)  

Policy Briefs

• Health and the Environment
• Climate Change: Meeting the Challenge to 2050 
• Climate Change Policies
• Putting Climate Change Adaptation in the Development Mainstream
• Biofuels for Transport: Policies and Possibilities
• The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
• Infrastructure to 2030

Previous Edition

• OECD Environmental Outlook (2001)