1. Highlights from the ENVIRONET
Members’ Survey
18th ENVIRONET meeting, 17 February 2015
Jan Corfee-Morlot, OECD Secretariat

2. A survey to understand Members’ priorities,
activities and approaches - to guide future
ENVIRONET work
• Responses collected September 2014 – February 2015
• Responses from 18 OECD DAC members, 1 observer,
2 international organisations
• Questions focused on:
– Reporting organisation’s current set of priorities in environment
and development
– Approaches to implement the Busan principles in environment
and development
– Approaches to mainstream environment into development co-
operation operations
– Suggestions future collaboration with other ENVIRONET
members

3. Members surveyed focuson natural resource
management, climate, biodiversity, private sector
• Sustainable natural resource use & management is a priority
– Water ; Land ; Forests ; Ecosystems
– Integrated, systematic approaches
– Sustainable, climate-smart agriculture/food security
– Often linked with work on biodiversity and desertification
• Climate change a focus of all members
– Adaptation: focus on disaster risk reduction and resilience
– Mitigation: focus on renewable energy, energy efficiency and access
• Biodiversity a focus of most members, to varying degrees
– Forests, marine, environmental crime, ecosystem-based adaptation,
mainstreaming, sustainable land management
– Many members addressing climate and biodiversity together,
harnessing synergies and co-benefits (e.g. ecosystem-based adaptation)
• Private sector a focus of many members
– Public-private partnerships
– Attracting private investment e.g. to energy sector
– Integrating environment into private sector activities

4. Some focus on local environmental issues
and other cross-cutting areas
• Waste/pollution/chemicals management: Czech Republic,
Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, UNDP, UNEP
• Strong human rights approach: Denmark, Finland, Israel,
Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, UNDP
– Indigenous communities
– Gender issues
– Other particularly vulnerable/marginalised groups
• Sustainable production and consumption: EU, Germany,
Spain, Sweden, UNEP
• Technology transfer: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Japan
• Cities: Canada, Germany, Sweden
• Water-energy-food nexus: Austria, Denmark, Netherlands

5. Many members did not did not specify how to
implement the Busan principles in the area of
environment and development
• Many explained how they implement the principles in general
• Some examples specific to environment and development:
– Austria: inter-ministerial platform on environment and development
– Belgium: Rio Conventions negotiator from the development administration,
tasked with incorporating the Busan commitments into any agreement
– Luxembourg: strictly adheres to the principle of “additionality” between ODA
and climate finance
– Japan: strengthening use of country systems through climate change policy
development assistance e.g. NAMA and NAP processes ; sharing
experiences and lessons learned through forums e.g. the 5th Tokyo
International Conference on African Development and the East Asia Low
Carbon Growth Partnership Dialogue.
– New Zealand: argued for a Warsaw Platform for Effective Climate Finance
– UK: new & additional climate finance through the International Climate Fund

6. All members are integrating the environment
into their development co-operation activities
• Most members have an environmental and
social screening procedure
• Many members have developed specific tools,
guidelines and checklists (since 2010)
• Some members have mainstreaming laws and
targets
• Some members have structured knowledge-
sharing, training, and technical advisors
involved in the drafting process

7. Commonly suggested areas of future collaboration
Finance Green
economy
Sharing best
practices
Governance
• Joint Task Team
on Rio Markers
• Improving
tracking, including
quality and
comparability of
reporting,
quantification
• Innovative finance
solutions e.g. for
climate,
biodiversity
• More collaboration
between OECD
and development
finance institutions
• Sustainable
financing e.g. for
climate,
biodiversity
• Environmental
fiscal reform
• Green/natural
capital
accounting
• Strategic
environmental
assessment
• Diffusion of
resource-efficient
technologies
• Sustainable
agriculture and
urban
development
/landscape
approaches
• Sustainable
production and
consumption
• Private sector
involvement
• Setting indicators and
benchmarks
• Improving the evidence
base and effective
approaches for
mainstreaming climate
change, biodiversity,
environment and
disaster risk reduction
(e.g. into other
development sectors,
into development co-
operation – particularly
in post-2015 framework)
• Integrated solutions
required for post-2015
SDG framework
• Providers want to share
their specific expertise
• Sharing with those
beyond ENVIRONET
• Actively supporting
the participation and
role of indigenous
peoples as integral
in development co-
operation activities
in environment and
development.
• Assessing
effectiveness of
organisations and
institutions in the
area of environment
and (transboundary)
natural resource
management
/governance
• Systematic
approaches e.g.
water-energy-food
nexus