The urgency and scale of the climate challenge is clear, reinforced by the recent IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (IPCC, 2018). Achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement requires unprecedentedly rapid economic, social and technological transformations to steer countries onto low-emissions, climate-resilient development pathways that are consistent with keeping the global average temperature increase well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. OECD work focuses on the environmental, economic, financial and social dimensions that are critical to the creation of low-emissions, climate-resilient development pathways. Examples, which are detailed further in this brochure, include:
• Integrating the climate and wider sustainable development agendas
• Operationalising and implementing the Paris Agreement
• Tracking climate finance
• Designing more effective and efficient climate policies
• Aligning policy, financial and planning frameworks with climate
