OECD ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLOOK

This report identifies the most pressing environmental concerns facing Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries over the next two decades, as well as some of the issues and pressures that are currently being relatively well-addressed. Section I, Executive Summary, Context and Structure, provides an overview of the structure and contents of the report. Section II, Economic, Social and Technological Drivers of Environmental Change, discusses the underlying drivers of the pressures and of environmental change - population growth, economic development, trade and investment liberalisation, technological innovation, and consumption patterns. Sections III (Primary Sectors and Natural Resources), IV (Energy, Climate Change, Transport and Air Quality), and V (Households, Selected Industries and Waste) focus on the recent and projected future developments in selected economic sectors and for selected environmental issues. Section VI, Selected Cross-cutting Issues, examines selected cross-cutting issues relating to the social and economic aspects of environmental change, including human health and the environment, the social and environmental interface, and resource efficiency across the economy. Finally, Section VII, Institutional Frameworks and Policy Packages for Addressing Environmental Problems, describes past and possible future developments in institutional frameworks for the environment and analyses the potential effects of packages of instruments that could be adopted by OECD countries to address the most pressing environmental problems identified in this report.

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