Environment and Energy Committee

The OECD’s work on environment helps governments design effective policies to address pressing sustainability challenges – including climate change, resource efficiency, and biodiversity loss. The OECD analyses evolving trends, provides evidence–based policy recommendations, fosters international government collaboration, and administers over 45 of the OECD’s environment standards. Collaborating closely with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Transport Forum (ITF), the OECD makes contributes to policy debates at national, regional and international level – including to the G7, the G20 and the UNFCCC negotiations. 

• Fostering business engagement in the design of climate frameworks 

• Supporting the revision of the OECD’s standards on sustainable transport and energy 

• Promoting public-private collaboration on skills for the green transition 

• Enabling circular economy trade facilitation through the relevant OECD Decision 

• Implementing the Revised Environment Chapter of the OECD’s MNE Guidelines  

Business at OECD’s Environment and Energy Committee provides cross-sector business priorities and positions to ensure the OECD’s recommendations on sustainability are both environmentally effective and economically efficient. Fostering policy continuity, coherence and collaboration, Business at OECD facilitates business exchanges with the OECD and governments, and informally liaise with the IEA, an autonomous body within the OECD framework. Business at OECD’s Energy and Environment Committee meets bi–annually in Paris, convenes additional thematic ad-hoc sessions, and organizes policy events in partnership with the OECD. 

• OECD’s Environment Policy Committee 

• OECD’s Working Party on Climate, Investment and Development 

• OECD’s Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste 

• OECD’s Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies 

• OECD’s Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment 

• OECD/IEA’s Climate Change Expert Group Global Forum 

• OECD’s Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum