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In December 2015, world leaders faced a fundamental dilemma: take strong action to address the risks associated with climate change, OR see the ability to limit this threat slip from their grasp at #COP21 in Paris-Le Bourget. Check out how the OECD contributed to a successful outcome.

CLICK BELOW tO SEE HOW THE OECD IS SUPPORTING GOVERNMENTS TO ACCELERATE CLIMATE AMBITION IN 2015‌

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schedule

• Programme of side events: OECD Workspace | 30 November-11 December | Paris-Le Bourget
• Additional side events:
• Pathways to a low-carbon economy - OECD and Cambridge Institute for sustainability Leadership | Paris-Le Bourget Wednesday | 9 December
• Green bond roundtable - OECD and Bloomberg | OECD Headquarters, Château de la Muette Thursday | 10 December

 

SPEECHES, STATEMENTS AND BLOG by Angel Gurría, oecd Secretary-General

• Beyond COP21: Boosting systems innovation for green growth | December 2015
• COP21 Agreement: Statement by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | December 2015
• Climate disclosure: knowledge powers change, OECD Insights blog by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | December
• Getting the most out of corporate climate change disclosure, Introductory remarks by Angel Gurría at OECD COP21 side event: High-level Panel on corporate climate change disclosure | December
• Rethinking fiduciary duty for a more sustainable planet: Opening remarks at OECD-UNEP COP21 side event on Governance of Institutional Investments | December
• Pathway to a low-carbon Economy: Remarks at OECD-University of Cambridge COP21 side event | December
  
• Leading the world towards a green economy:  Remarks at Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting | December
• Remarks at GLOBE COP21 Legislators Summit | December
• Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition launch meeting, Opening remarks | November
• Mobilising climate finance for development action: COP21 session on multilateral developpment banks and climate finance | November
• COP21 Carbon Pricing Panel media event: Closing remarks | November
• The contribution of sicence and innovation to addressing climate change  | October
• Current state of mobilisation of climate finance, Remarks by OECD Secretary-General  Angel Gurría, Climate Finance Ministerial Meeting | Lima, 9 October 2015
• Betting the planet: A climate reality check, Climate Week event "Securing a Paris Dividend: Leadership and innovation for a strong, sustainable economy", Keynote address by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | NYC, September 2015
• World must weigh the true cost of coal to be serious about climate, says OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, at the London School of Economics and Aviva Investors, in association with ClimateWise | London, July 2015
  
  
• All OECD Secretary-General's speeches / presentations related to environment

 

VIDEOs

OECD’s Gurria Says COP21 Will Get Agreement With Teeth	Simon Upton: Eliminating fossil fuels subsidies a 'no brainer": expert  | ABC News	Simon Upton: Climate talks in Paris... last change for reaching a global binding agreement to... | The Nation, New Zealand
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It’s time to act on climate change	Simon Upton: Is a global deal on climate change finally within reach? | Radio New Zealand National	COP21: OECD climate Experts - Simon Buckle and Stephanie Ockenden talk to Climate Home
View all our climate-related videos

oecd at #cop21	CLIMATE CHANGE: SEEING THE LIGHT - OECD OBSERVER

 

online tool COMPARE YOU COUNTRY - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION	FOLLOW US
Access the online tool Climate change mitigation - policies and progress: THE REPORT	Tweets about OECD AND #COP21 OR #OECDCOP

CLIMATE LECTURE: WHAT’S CHANGED, WHAT HASN’T AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT: SIX MONTHS TO COP21 - BY OECD SECRETARY-GENERAL ANGEL GURRÍA at the LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS - july 2015

Full lecture	Video (1h41)

events and releases

• The IEA is pleased to announce the second event in its new distinguished speaker series, Big IdEAs, which brings global leaders and decision makers to the IEA to share their views on a range of global issues. Presentation by Professor Sir David King, UK Special Representative for Climate Change, on "Towards decarbonising the global economy: The direction of travel after COP21" | 29 February 2015
• Climate change mitigation: We must do more
  
• Climate change in figures 
• Selected bibliography on climate change
• West Africa at COP21
  

• Policy Brief: Three steps to a low-carbon economy: the goal of zero net emissions can be achieved
  
• COP21 and public governance
  
• Online tool Compare your country: Climate Change Mitigation Policies | Webinar launch
• The Economic Consequences of Climate Change
  
• Climate Change Mitigation - Policies and Progress
• The Carbon Clock is ticking, Op-ed by Gabriela Ramos, OECD Special Counsellor to the OECD Secretary-General | Europe's World
• Climate financing momentum builds, OECD News release for the launch of the report "" by the OECD Secretary-General during climate finance meetings in the margins of the 2015 World Bank-IMF assemblies | Lima
• Webinar: COP21 and beyond: Aligning Policies for a Low-carbon Economy
• Support to fossil fuels remains high and the time is ripe for change, OECD News Release, for the launch of the report OECD Companion to the Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2015 | Paris
• Agriculture and soils face climate change & food security challenges ag4climate.org  | Paris
  
  

BLOGS

• COP21 was decades in the making, so how do we make future decades work for climate? by Shayne MacLachlan | January 2016
• Climate disclosure: knowledge powers change, OECD Insights blog, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría | December 2015
• COP21 agreement: A decisive turning point | December 2015
• How OECD and IEA contributed to COP21 | December 2015
• OECD Insights on COP21 | November 2015
  
  
• Complete list of Blogs and articles related to environment.

 

further reading

• OECD work on climate change
• #COP21 Paris 2015 official website
  

 

contact & social media

• Stay tuned on Twitter: @OECD_ENV
• For more information, please contact: env.contact@oecd.org