Transcript (a) Green Economy

Facilitating Transition towards Green Economy
in post-Rio context: UNEP’s Green Economy
Initiative
Joy Kim
Economics and Trade Branch
Director, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
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Green Economy seeks to drive growth, jobs,
environmental improvement, poverty eradication
and social equity through shifting investments
towards clean technologies and natural capital as
well as human resources and social institutions with
policy reforms supporting the shift.
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Modeling
Enabling Conditions
Finance
10 Key sectors
Agriculture
Building
Cities
Energy
Forest
Manufacturing
Tourism
Transport
Waste
Water
UNEP Green Economy Report
• Investing 2% of global GDP into ten key
sectors for a transition towards a low-carbon,
resource-efficient economy.
Key findings
• Investing in natural capital, resource and
energy efficiency can lead to:
– Higher rates of GDP growth over time and
enhanced wealth
– Reduced poverty
– Decent employment
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Rio+20 Key Outcomes
(b) Beyond GDP:
Recognition of the need for broader
measures of progress beyond GDP in
order to better inform policy
decisions, and a request to launch a
new programme of work building on
existing initiatives.
(c) SDGs: Endorsement
to create a set of
Sustainable Development
Goals, which compliment
the MDGs and support the
transition to a green
economy.
(a) Green
Economy: A mandate
to coordinate and provide
information to countries, as
well as toolboxes, models of
good policies,
methodologies for
evaluating progress and
support for emerging
platforms that contribute in
this regard.
(d) CSR: A call to enhance
Corporate Sustainability Reporting,
drawing on best practices and
options for capacity building in
developing countries.
(e) 10 YFP: Adoption
of a 10-Year Framework of
Programmes on Sustainable
Consumption and
Production.
Green Economy: Rio+20 Opportunities
 ‘The Future We Want’
 encourages countries to implement green economy policies, but
emphasizes the need to take into account national circumstances
and priorities.
recognizes that the need for support for developing countries’
implementation
Some general principles (e.g. consistency with international laws and
trade rules, avoiding conditionalities, enhancing welfare etc.) that should
guide the development of green economy policies.
Priority areas for policy focus, include sustainable consumption and
production, resource efficiency, job creation, waste reduction, technology
and innovation, natural resource management and complementary social
policies,
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Green Economy: Rio+20 Opportunities
Growing demand - Since Rio over a dozen countries have requested
technical support from UNEP (incl. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Côte
d'Ivoire, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria,
Peru, Tunisia, Uganda)
Political Momentum – At the AMCEN (sept. 2012) Ministers adopted
an African Partnership on Green Economy, calling on UNEP and other
agencies to support its implementation.
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Green Economy: Strategic Presence and
Interventions
• Facilitating
consensus
building
• Country
level green
economy
advisory
services
Several
informal
dialogues and
consultations
held across
the world
Engagement
at AMCEN;
COTED;
Regional
Working with
over 20
countries
around the
world
GGKP; UNEPUNDPUNDESA Joint
Programme;
Green Jobs
Programme;
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• Supporting
regional
preparatory
processes
PrepComs
• Forging
partnerships
and
alliances
UNEP Green Economy Advisory Services
At present, UNEP works with over 26 countries in
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe,
Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle
East responding to country demands for
technical assistance and capacity building
Green Economy Advisory Services
offer policy advice, technical assistance and capacity
building by fostering multi-stakeholder dialogue and
consultation on green economy;
delivering comprehensive green economy
assessments that identify key opportunities and options
for a green economy transition at country level;
assisting countries in creating indicators and
measurement frameworks;
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Green Economy Advisory Services
identifying and facilitating policy and fiscal instruments
that enable and encourage investments in high potential
green sectors, while assisting the “greening” of other
sectors;
supporting centres of excellence, enhancing local
knowledge and building capacity;
mainstreaming green economy into national
development strategies and UN Development
Assistance Framework.
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UNEP’s GEI through Partnerships: PostRio+20
 IGG toolkit through G20 process- the African Development Bank
(AfDB), OECD, World Bank and UN produced a preliminary toolkit
of policy options to support inclusive green growth. It will include
integration of new or better tools on energy, water, and climate
change.
Evaluating Progress –1) production of guidelines for measuring
national initiatives to green their economies, 2) application of the
guidelines in selected countries (the following countries are being
considered currently: Morocco, China, Ghana, Mexico, Barbados,
Indonesia or Thailand)
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UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative: PostRio+20
GGKP – Inaugurated in January 2012, GGKP is a collaborative
effort between UNEP, the World Bank, the OECD and the Global
Green Growth Institute, has established three initial research
programmes to bridge knowledge gaps: 1) Measurement of Green
Growth/Green Economy; 2) Trade and Green Growth, 3)
Technological innovation for Green Growth. It has expanded its
partnerships with numerous other organizations, including ILO,
UNDP, AfDB, ICLEI (Local governments for sustainability) and
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).
Green Industry Platform – UNEP together with UNIDO launched
the Green Industry Platform in June 2012. It is a global publicprivate partnership to support participants (governments,
businesses and civil society organizations) to take concrete and
measurable action to advance green industry at all levels.
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UNEP Response: Programme of Action on Green
Economy (PAGE)
Vision
Objectives
Accelerating and improving the transition to socially inclusive,
resource efficient, low-carbon economies
• To strengthen the capacity of Governments and other
stakeholders to manage the transition to socially inclusive,
resource efficient, low carbon economies
• To provide a springboard for action on commitments made
at Rio+20
• To foster cooperation, pool resources, and ensure
coherence between the activities of various stakeholders
while drawing upon the best of their respective expertise
and political leverage
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PAGE components:
1. Develop new research addressing key policy questions on the drivers of green
growth
2.Offer policy dialogues for high-level government officials to share experiences
and formulate strategies
3.Provide capacity development and applied practical training on economic and
fiscal policy, green jobs and sustainable management of natural resources
4.Provide country-driven advisory services consisting of policy advice, technical
assistance and applied capacity development of “learning by doing” for
governments
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Engagement model – Advisory services
Benchmarking resource scarcities, drivers of change and
opportunities for investment, wealth creation and employment
Testing investment and policy scenarios through country-tailored
quantitative modeling
POLICY
FORMULATION
Supporting national green economy action plans and
mainstreaming
Facilitating appropriate frameworks for measuring progress and
natural resource management
POLICY
IMPLEMENTATION
Supporting sectoral programmes and policy tools for
implementation
FINANCE
Mobilisation of private sector and finance
Multistakeholder Dialogue and Engagement Process
(business, workers, academia, civil society, gender and youth
groups)
TECHNICAL,
ECONOMIC AND
POLICY
ASSESSMENTS
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National Level Actions and Outcomes: Barbados
Supporting green economy objectives of Barbados’ National Strategic
Plan (2006-2025)
Launch of Government of
Barbados-University of West IndiesUNEP partnership (February 2011)
Government of Barbados,
UWI, UNEP
Integration of green economy
objectives in Barbados UNDAF (April
2011)
Government of Barbados, UN
Country Team
Validation of green economy scoping
study by Prime Minister of Barbados
(March 2012)
Announcement of Regional Initiative
of green economy in the Caribbean
region with EU support (March 2012)
Government of Barbados,
UWI, UNEP
Government of Barbados,
representatives of 8
Caribbean countries
Prime Minister Freundel
Stuart receiving a copy of
the Green Economy
report from UNEP
Regional Director for
Latin America and the
Caribbean. (A.
Miller/BGIS)
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Advisory Services: Delivering Sustainable
Consumption and Production in a Green
Economy
Rio+20: Green Economy
in the Context of …
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Rio+20: 10 YFP
SWITCH+
UNEP Country Level Advisory Services:
Policy advice, technical assistance and capacity development
• Macroeconomic
country studies
• Economic
modeling and
fiscal policy
• Green jobs
Country
Delivery
• Consumer
information,
• Lifestyles
• Procurement
• Buildings
• Tourism
Country
Delivery
Country
Delivery
• Technology
Assessments &
Plans
• EE and RE
Technology
support (eg CTCN)
Country
Delivery
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Thank you
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