Speaker: Walid Oueslati, Head of Division, Biodiversity and Water division, Environment Directorate (OECD) Presentation at the 2nd meeting of the Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC) held online on 12-13 March, 2024.

1. Report on recent activities of the
secretariat
Walid Oueslati
Head of Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division (CBW)
Environment Directorate
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Future work on
climate change mitigation
2nd Meeting of the WPCC (virtual)
12-13 March 2024

2. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
PWB 2025-26 Process: initial steps
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• Discussion of broad issues that
would shape the PWB 2025-26
• Scoping new areas & electronic
discussions
• Strategic guidance to Working
Parties
EPOC Feb & October
2023
• Discuss proposals
• Relative priorities
and focus
WPCC March 2024
• EPOC reviews and
approves
• draft PWB and
preliminary budget
allocations
EPOC
May 2024

3. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
Climate change mitigation: proposals
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CURRENT PROJECTS TO BE CONTINUED
• Carbon Market Platform (CMP)
• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
• Transformative change for net zero (systems thinking approach)
PROPOSALS FOR NEW PROJECTS
• Forestry and other land use (FOLU) as a cornerstone of the net-zero
transition
• Distributional effects of climate mitigation policies
• Socio-economic consequences of strategies for the deployment of Negative
Emission Technologies

4. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
Transformative change
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Proposals
• Characterisation of transformational approaches to climate change mitigation
• Country dialogues to strengthen countries’ transformational policies in the net-zero
process
• Climate change mitigation and health
Key questions
• How can we foster and implement transformative change domestically and
internationally?
• How can we design policy mixes with a strong potential for transformative change?
• Which transformations have taken place in recent years, as prompted by national climate
mitigation policies or international agreements?

5. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
FOLU as a cornerstone of the transition
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Proposal
• Understand how the forestry and other land use (FOLU) sector can contribute to
substantially mitigate global GHG emissions through actions to augment its
carbon sinks and cut its emissions
Key questions
• How can policy makers design policies for the FOLU sector?
• How are policies adaptable in different countries?
• To which extent are these climate mitigation policies also beneficial for
biodiversity and resilience to climate change?

6. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
Distributional effects
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Proposal
• Understand and anticipate how distributional effects vary across regions and
identify appropriate policies, such as redistribution schemes, that can limit the
distributional issues.
Key questions
• How does policy design change when taking into account distributional effects?
• How do the economic costs of climate change mitigation policies change when
accounting for distributional effects?
• What additional policies can be put in place to limit distributional effects?

7. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
Negative Emission Technologies
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Proposal
• Understand the socio-economic consequences of pathway to net-zero with
different levels of reliance on Negative Emission Technologies (NETs)
Key questions
• To which extent do current policy-relevant global scenarios, such as those
collected in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) rely on NETs?
• What are the socio-economic consequences of different types of NETs?
• What are the socio-economic consequences of different ways to finance NETs?

8. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
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Next Steps on Updating OECD Standards on the Environment
EPOC [ENV/EPOC/M(2023)4] invited the Secretariat to:
• Prepare a first draft of the revised and consolidated Recommendation related to transport
• Prepare a directions paper on the revision and consolidation of energy-related legal instruments
Development of a new OECD standard related to forestry (under discussion)
• No comparable international standards on forestry
• EPOC provided guidance to: Consider work on land-use and forest in a changing climate, e.g. analysing
the sectors’ contribution to climate change mitigation and the nexus between biodiversity, mitigation
and adaptation (WPCC and JWPAE)
This work could feed into the development of a legal instrument on forestry
Work on OECD standards

9. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
Next steps
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• Share ideas and reactions on proposed future work today and/or via written
procedure by 22nd March 2024 on proposals included in [ENV/EPOC/WPCC(2024)1]
→ EPOC develop draft PWB, reflecting subsidiary body discussions
→ Budget committee will discuss and finalise the Programme of Work and Budget

10. Working Party on Climate Change (WPCC)
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Climate Change Mitigation:
Future PWB 2025-26: breakout group discussions
•Moderator:
Ioannis Tikoudis
•Reporting back:
Shawn Carter
•Duration: 15’
•Moderator:
Elisa Lanzi
•Reporting back:
Amiel Vasl
•Duration: 15’
• Moderator:
Nicolina Lamhauge
• Reporting back:
Boris Le Hir
•Duration: 15’
•Moderator:
Mariana Mirabile
• Reporting back:
Gemma O’Reilly
•Duration: 15’ Breakout
group 1:
Transformative
change
Breakout
group 2:
Distributional
effects
Breakout
group 3:
FOLU
Breakout
group 4:
NETs

11. Report on recent activities of the
secretariat
Thank you!
Walid Oueslati | Walid.Oueslati@oecd.org
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