The IPAC program was launched in May 2021 to support countries' efforts to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience by mid-century. It will monitor countries' climate actions, evaluate policies, and share best practices. The program will cover OECD members and selected partner countries. It will advise on climate indicators, provide guidance on their use and interpretation, and identify measurement priorities. The preliminary IPAC dashboard includes indicators on emissions trends and targets, climate actions and opportunities, and climate impacts and risks. The program will further develop indicators, issue country reports, and establish an interactive platform for mutual learning on climate policy.

1. IPAC
International Programme for Action on
Climate
OECD Paris Collaborative on Green Budgeting &
Coalition of Finance Minsters for Climate Action, 7 October 2021
Nathalie GIROUARD, OECD

2. IPAC - International Programme for Action on Climate
Launched at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in May 2021
Objective:
◦ Support countries’ efforts to progress towards net-zero GHG emissions
and a more resilient economy by mid-century
◦ Help countries strengthen and coordinate their climate action through regular
monitoring, policy evaluation and feedback on results and good practices
◦ Complement the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement monitoring framework.
Two-year pilot implementation under a broader Horizontal Project
on Building Climate and Economic Resilience. But longer-term programme.
Cover OECD members and selected non-Members (about 50 countries + EU)

3. IPAC components

4. Advising on:
• Conceptual framework
• Selection of IPAC indicators
• Guidance on use and interpretation of indicators
• Methodological and measurement priorities
IPAC Technical Expert Group

5. OECD approach to climate indicators
Characteristics Selection criteria
Flexible
◦ Easy to adapt, improve and develop further
Pragmatic
◦ Indicator set of manageable size
◦ Use of existing work → refined, amended
Balanced
◦ Balanced coverage CC dimensions
◦ Balance between relevance for international
work and for countries
Policy relevance and utility for users
• Representative, clear, easy to communicate,
actionable, linked to reference values
Analytical soundness
• Solid, transparent methodology, based on
international standards/consensus
Measurability
• Data availability and quality (timeliness,
comparability, frequency, geographic coverage),
cost-effectiveness

6. Conceptual measurement framework
Note: selected examples
Coherent with UN
frameworks for
• Climate change related
statistics and indicators
(UNECE)
• Global Set of Climate
Change Statistics and
Indicators (UNSD)

7. Preliminary IPAC Dashbord :
https://www.oecd.org/climate-action/ipac/
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Emissions
• GHG emissions trends & trajectories
• Distance to targets
• Net-zero trajectories
• GHG emission structure & intensities
• GHG emission structure
• GHG emission intensities
• CO2 emissions from fuel combustion
(production-based, demand-based)
Actions and opportunities
• Move towards non-fossil energy
sources: energy mix
• Use of carbon pricing and climate
related taxation: Effective carbon
rates; climate-related tax revenue
• Climate policy stringency
• Placeholder for: adaptation
measures; labour markets;
budgets, expenditure & finance
Impacts and risks
• Weather related impacts
• Extreme events
• Inequalities in exposure to
climate risks

8. Indicator development agenda
Ongoing and planned measurement work (under review)
◦ Distance to targets; net-zero trajectories
◦ GHG emissions: Quarterly; Subnational
◦ Climate-related risks and vulnerability:
socio-economic inequality in exposure to climate-related risks
◦ Climate policy stringency index
◦ Net effective carbon rates
◦ Climate-related public budgets and government expenditure
◦ Climate adaptation policy instruments
◦ Labour market developments

9. Next steps
Progress report on Annual Climate Monitor– COP26
Further development and refinement of indicators
◦ Updated Dashboard & refined broader indicator set (mid-2022)
◦ Continued development work (data, methodologies)
Preparation of Country Notes (2022)
Establishment of Interactive Platform for dialogue and mutual
learning (2022)
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10. IPAC
THANK YOU!
OECD work on climate
https://www.oecd.org/climate-change/
OECD international repository in support of
climate action
https://www.oecd.org/environment/climate-data/
IPAC
https://www.oecd.org/climate-change/IPAC/
https://www.oecd.org/climate-change/ipac-fr/
HP on Climate and Economic resilience
https://www.oecd.org/env/cc/brochure-
horizontal-project-on-climate-and-economic-
resilience.pdf