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OECD Environment Ministers met to discuss recent environmental trends and the projections in the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030, environmental co-operation between OECD countries and emerging economies, challenges (competitiveness concerns) and opportunities (eco-innovation) associated with policies to address climate change, and the need for enhanced government-wide co-operation to shift towards a low-carbon society.

 

The discussions were centered on the following four themes:

• Recent environmental trends and projections for the coming decades: the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030;
• Environmental co-operation between OECD countries and emerging economies;
• Competitiveness, eco-innovation and climate change
• Strengthening co-operation across government for ambitious climate change policies

 

Meeting Documents

• Chairs' Summary;
• Short Agenda and Agenda and Issues Paper;
• An OECD Framework for Effective and Efficient Environmental Policies: Full Report;
• Recommendation of the Council on Resource Productivity [see also C(2008)40];
• Resolution of the Council on Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM);
• Costs of Inaction on Environmental Policy Challenges: Summary Report;
• Follow-up to the Four Mandates Given by Ministers at the 2004 Meeting of EPOC at Ministerial Level.

 

www.oecd.org/envmin2008