‌ Release: 5 Mar 2008

How will economic and social developments drive environmental change to 2030?  What policies are needed to address the main environmental challenges?  How can OECD and non-OECD countries best work together to tackle these challenges? The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.  Without new policies, we risk irreversibly damaging the environment and the natural resource base needed to support economic growth and well-being.  The costs of policy inaction are high. But the Outlook shows that tackling the key environmental problems we face today -- including climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and the health impacts of pollution -- is both achievable and affordable.  It highlights a mix of policies that can address these challenges in a cost-effective way.  The focus of this Outlook is expanded from the 2001 edition to reflect developments in both OECD countries and Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, South Africa (BRIICS), and how they might better co-operate on global and local environmental problem-solving.

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In the press

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, March 2008
• Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General for the official launch of the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030, Oslo, March 2008

 

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further reading

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, Oslo, March 2008
• 2008 Meeting of OECD Environment Ministers, Paris, April 2008  

Policy Briefs

• Climate Change: Meeting the Challenge to 2050 
• Climate Change Policies
• Putting Climate Change Adaptation in the Development Mainstream
  
• Health and the Environment
• Biofuels for Transport: Policies and Possibilities
• The Political Economy of Environmentally Related Taxes
• Infrastructure to 2030
• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 - Co-operation with other Organisations - Major Global Environmental Assessments (2007-2008)
  
  

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

• OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: the Consequences of Inaction (2012) 
• OECD Environmental Outlook (2001) 
• OECD Environmental Outlooks
  
  

How to obtain this publication

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• Access by password for accredited journalists 

 

Find out more

• Modelling work behind the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050
• OECD work on environmental-Economic Modelling