Environment and Energy Committee
Chair
Hans-Jörn Weddige
Secretariat Lead
Dominik Kümmerle
Policy Director and Strategic Communications
Vice-Chair
Massimo Beccarello
Confindustria
(Italy)
Vice-Chair
Frits de Groot
VNO–NCW
(Netherlands)
Vice-Chair
William Garcia
CEFIC
(Belgium)
Vice-Chair
Alexander Keberle
economiesuisse
(Switzerland)
Vice-Chair
Luca Matrone
Intesa Sanpaolo
(Italy)
Vice-Chair
Tom Smith
Walmart
(United States)
Vice-Chair
Maria Sunér Fleming
Svemin
(Sweden)
Vice-Chair
Hiroyuki Tezuka
JFE Steel
(Japan)
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01.
Why OECD Work on Environment and Energy Policy Matters
OECD work on environment helps governments design effective policies to address pressing sustainability challenges – including climate change, resource efficiency, and biodiversity loss. The Organization analyses evolving trends, provides evidence–based policy recommendations, fosters international government collaboration, and administers over 45 OECD environment standards. Collaborating closely with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Transport Forum (ITF), the OECD makes contributes to policy debates at national, regional and international level – including to the G7, the G20 and the UNFCCC negotiations.
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How Business Engages with the OECD on Environment and Energy Policy
Our Environment and Energy Committee provides cross-sector business priorities and positions to ensure OECD recommendations on sustainability are both environmentally effective and economically efficient. Fostering policy continuity, coherence and collaboration, we facilitate business exchanges with the OECD and governments, and informally liaise with the IEA, an autonomous body within the OECD framework. Our Committee meets bi–annually in Paris, convenes additional thematic ad-hoc sessions, and organizes policy events in partnership with the OECD.
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Our 2024 Priorities
- Ensuring business in high-level OECD climate initiatives
- Promoting access to affordable and secure energy
- Fostering trade and sustainability synergies, including a focus on waste trade
- Implementing the Revised Environment Chapter of the OECD MNE Guidelines
- Contributing to OECD work on plastics and extended producer responsibility
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Our Engagement with OECD Bodies
- OECD Environment Policy Committee
- OECD Working Party on Climate, Investment and Development
- OECD Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste
- OECD Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies
- OECD Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment
- OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Global Forum
- OECD Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum
Publications
29 February 2024
Business at OECD (BIAC) Briefing - Q&As on the Climate Club
20 June 2023
Letter in support of Japan’s revised version of its alternative proposal for new e-waste entries
30 March 2022
Key Messages to the Meeting of the OECD Environment Ministerial
1 September 2021
Key Messages on the OECD Horizontal Project - Building Climate and Economic Resilience in the Transition to a Low-carbon Economy
1 March 2021
Key Messages on Designing and Implementing Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery Plans
1 September 2020
Key Messages to the OECD Ministerial Council Roundtable on Economic Recovery - Strong, Resilient, Green and Inclusive
1 March 2020
Key Messages on Sustainable Finance Taxonomies
1 March 2020
Key Messages on Preventing Single-Use Plastics Waste - Implications of Different Policy Approaches
1 February 2020
Key Messages on Trade and Circular Economy