OECD Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum 2024

Key resources

Find below the latest OECD reports, key initiatives and insights on the green and digital transitions.

Discover the Forum's Thematic papers

This report explores the complex interplay between trade and environmental policies and discusses how these policies can be harnessed to address the "triple planetary crisis" of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. The transboundary nature of this crisis requires integrated and internationally coordinated policy responses. Carefully designed policies can leverage synergies and mitigate challenges.

This paper explores the potential of widespread and reliable information on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with any good or service or the activities of any firm – in short, the carbon footprint of everything. It considers what having information on the carbon footprint of everything would mean for climate action, what building blocks would need to be in place to achieve this, what it would take to put these building blocks in place, and how far we are from measuring a carbon footprint of everything.

Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2023: Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Challenges to international trade and the global economy: Recovery from COVID-19 and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

Climate change adaptation policies to foster resilience in agriculture: Analysis and stocktake based on UNFCCC reporting documents

Climate Policy Leadership in an Interconnected World, What Role for Border Carbon Adjustments?

Integrated approaches for agricultural sustainability and productivity assessments

Retrospective overview of key analysis and findings from OECD work on trade and the environment between 2008 and 2020

Raw materials critical for the green transition

Reorienting budgetary support to agriculture for climate change mitigation: A modelling analysis

Strengthening clean energy supply chains for decarbonisation and economic security

Sustainability impact assessments of free trade agreements. A critical review

The impacts of agricultural trade and support policy reform on climate change adaptation and environmental performance: A model-based analysis

Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future Project

Net Zero+: The OECD Horizontal Project on Climate and Economic Resilience

Closing in on net zero

Session 1

Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060

International trade and circular economy - Policy alignment

International trade consequences of climate change

Resource efficiency, the circular economy, sustainable materials management and trade in metals and minerals

Securing reverse supply chains for a resource efficient and circular economy

The mining global value chain

Trade as a channel for environmental technologies diffusion

Trade in services related to the environment

Trade policies to promote the circular economy: A case study of lithium-ion batteries

Trade policies to promote the circular economy: A case study of the plastics value chain

Session 2

Environmental impacts along food supply chains: Methods, findings, and evidence gaps

Fast and furious: the rise of environmental impact reporting in food systems

Improving environmental outcomes along food supply chains: A review of initiatives and their effectiveness

OECD-WEF-BIAC WEF Emissions Measurement in Supply Chains

Trade and Economic Effects of IRC: Further Empirical Evidence from SPS and TBT Provisions

Session 3

Bridging the clean energy investment gap: Cost of capital in the transition to net-zero emissions

Clean Energy Finance and Investment Roadmap of Thailand

Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-2022, Climate Finance and the USD 100 Billion Goal

Cross-border investment into low-carbon infrastructure: An empirical glance

FDI Qualities Policy Toolkit

G20/OECD Report on approaches for financing and investing in climate-resilient infrastructure

Managing Climate Risks and Impacts Through Due Diligence for Responsible Business Conduct: A Tool for Institutional Investors

OECD Guidance on Transition Finance: Ensuring Credibility of Corporate Climate Transition Plans

Policy Framework for Investment, 2015 Edition

Scaling Up the Mobilisation of Private Finance for Climate Action in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities for International Providers

Towards More Sustainable Investment Frameworks: Evaluating the Feasibility of Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreements with Southern Neighbourhood Countries

Session 4

Are industrial policy instruments effective?: A review of the evidence in OECD countries

An industrial policy framework for OECD countries: old debates, new perspectives

Did COVID-19 accelerate the green transition?: An international assessment of fiscal spending measures to support low-carbon technologies

Driving low-carbon innovations for climate neutrality

Government support in industrial sectors: A synthesis report

Measuring distortions in international markets: Below-market energy inputs

Measuring distortions in international markets: Below-market finance

Measuring distortions in international markets: The aluminium value chain

Measuring distortions in international markets: The rolling-stock value chain

Measuring distortions in international markets: The semiconductor value chain

Policies for a climate-neutral industry: Lessons from the Netherlands

Quantifying industrial strategies (QuIS): Measuring industrial policy expenditures

The climate implications of government support in aluminium smelting and steelmaking

The return of industrial policies: Policy considerations in the current context

Green industrial policies for the net-zero transition

Session 5

CO2 emissions from global shipping: A new experimental database

Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation in Shipbuilding

Peer review of the Croatian shipbuilding industry, Reviews of Shipbuilding Economies

Peer review of the Danish shipbuilding industry, Reviews of Shipbuilding Economies

Peer review of the Italian shipbuilding industry, Reviews of Shipbuilding Economies

Peer review of the Polish shipbuilding industry, Reviews of Shipbuilding Economies

Peer review of the Romanian shipbuilding industry, Reviews of Shipbuilding Economies

The Potential of E-fuels to Decarbonise Ships and Aircraft

Carbon Pricing in Shipping