The Secretariat received comments from several ENVIRONET members, which informed a subsequent draft, this time as an OECD working paper in order to reach a wider climate and development co-operation audience. The authors would like to thank all ENVIRONET members for their inputs and advice. In addition, the authors circulated the paper to several OECD colleagues for review, including Nadine Gbossa, Nicolina Lamhauge, Jane Ellis and Michael Mullan, Juan Casado Asensio, Taka Kato, Ebba Dohlman, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte. Mariana Mirabile provided invaluable support checking the data. All of the contributions received helped to inform and strengthen the final version of this paper. Four international agreements with direct repercussions for development and environmental policy were adopted, namely the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2015a), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) (UN, 2015b) , the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and the Paris Climate Agreement (UNFCCC, 2015).