"That's why you have to approach it very carefully and as broadly as possible – to make sure this is something that could potentially be beneficial to the whole world. I know there are lots of other countries starting to think about this."
Malmstrom was the EU trade commissioner between 2014 and 2019 and spent four years before that as the commissioner for home affairs. If selected she would be the organisation's first female leader. "What the OECD can do is to show how to link economy and ecology. This should be one of the most important priorities of the OECD. Any secretary-general, whoever is elected, will have to spend a lot of his or her time on this."on international behemoths such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon before a global agreement is struck at the OECD in mid-2021.
"With a joint effort there could be a solution ready by the summer and I think it's really worth waiting for," Malmstrom said. "If we can get nearly 140 countries to agree on something that would really be historic and set a new standard.
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)