Transcript Diapositive 1 - African Development Bank

AfDB’s Green Growth Strategy:
What Role can SESA play?
SESA Workshop
Dr. Anthony NYONG
Manager, ORQR.3
African Development Bank
Tunis, Tunisia
21-22 March, 2011
Outline
1.
Background
2.
Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa?
3.
What role can SESA play in Green
Growth Strategy?
4.
Key messages and Way Forward
BACKGROUND
AFDB and Green Growth
 Green Growth
for AfDB is all about
achieving sustainable development
through:
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Economic growth
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Environment, climate resilience and low
carbon development,
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Sustainable improvement of living conditions
(poverty reduction and social justice)
Climate Change and Green Growth
In Africa, Green Growth can be achieved through
climate compatible development
Development
Climate
Low Carbon
Resilient
Dev
Dev
Climate
Compatible
Development
Mitigation
Source: Catalyst,
2009
Climate
Proofed
Abatements
Adaptation
Why a Green Growth
Strategy for Africa
Alignment with Bank’s Mission
The Green Growth Strategy will:
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Support a low carbon intensive development and
ensure sustainability
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Strengthen the Bank’s Medium Term Strategy
(2008-2012) and Sector Strategies
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Support the existing Bank’s Climate Change
Policies for climate resilient and low carbon
development:
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Clean Energy Investment Framework
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Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy
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Integrated Climate Change Action Plan
Objectives
Ensuring Sustainable and
Equitable Economic Growth; and
Climate and Environment Protection
Establishing a
Framework to
foster
innovation
Indentifying needs/
potentials;
Pilot projects/Best
Practices;
and Constraints
Designing a
Green Growth
Strategy based
on Africa’s
concerns
Providing a strategic orientation
Ensuring efficient use of natural capital
Promoting best practices and good policies
Key areas of action
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Green agricultural practices
Green technologies
Sustainable trade
Sustainable use of natural resources
Clean industrial development
Sustainable transport
Clean Energy
Green jobs
Waste Management
Socially appropriate growth
Design process of the
Green Growth Strategy
Conception
 Preparation
 Work Plan and Concept Note
 Fact findings at different levels
 Design
 Data Analysis
 Definition of Indicators, output & impact
 Draft AfDB Green Growth Strategy
 Draft National Green Growth Strategies
(Easily adaptable to specific country needs)
 Peer Review/Adoption/Board Approval
 Stakeholders’ Meetings for harmonization/adoption
 Board approval
Implementation
 Implementation of AfDB’s Strategy
 Political Orientation of Bank
 Harmonization with existing Bank policies
 Implementation Action Plan
 Implementation of 5 Pilot Strategies
 Selection of pilot countries based on
economic, social and political variations
 Implementation in Key Sectors
Evaluation
 Revision and way forward
Lessons Learned/Best Practices
 Within the Bank
 At national level in the 5 Pilot RMCs
 At regional and international levels
Scaling Up
 Supporting the scaling up of national
Green Growth Strategies
 Monitoring how they are adapted and
implemented, through Bank regional offices
Summary of the Process
Conception
Implementation
• AfDB Green Growth for Africa
• Pilot Green Growth Strategies in RMCs
• AfDB Green Growth for Africa
• 5 Pilot Green Growth Strategies
Evaluation
Lessons learnt
• Dialogue with stakeholders
• Revision/Adoption/way forward
Scaling Up
• Best practices/lessons learnt
• Monitoring of national strategies
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What role can SESA play
in Green Growth
Strategy?
SESA and the GGS
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SESA provides a holistic and long term forecast
approach to understand economic, social and
environmental implications of the proposed
Green Growth Strategy, and therefore assess
sustainability
OECD, 2006
SESA and the GGS
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Sustainability assessment will be needed to evaluate the
impacts of the Strategy against its agreed objectives,
targets and indicators
Thérivel, 2004
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Collingwood Environmental
At the implementation phase, this will also help monitor
the impacts of the strategies as well as its related
options/sectors, and suggest necessary adjustments
SESA and the GGS (cont’d)
With regards to green technologies, for instance,
the application of SESA is especially needed to
assess positive and negative impacts of the
selected technologies and their role in achieving
sustainability
 Strategic assessment of Renewable Energy and
Energy Efficiency technologies, is necessary to
promote low-cost, low-carbon and effective clean
technologies, in considering costs of GHG
reduction vs GHG emission
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SESA and the GGS (cont’d)
A set of generic sustainability indicators is
needed to monitor whether and how selected
Green Growth options/sectors contribute to (or
deviate from) sustainability
 The use of existing tools is very important: costbenefit approach, ESIA, ecological footprint, life
cycle approach, multi-criteria analysis and
stakeholder analysis
 Although, many difficulties remain with regards
to the selection of appropriate methods to assess
the sustainability of the Green Growth Strategy
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Key messages and Way Forward
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A Green Growth Strategy can make Africa in the
long term a potential pole of economically,
socially and environmentally sustainable growth
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The proposed Bank’s Africa Green Fund (AGF) will
serve as a financing mechanism for the Green
Growth Strategy
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SESA is an important and appropriate tool to
assess the proposed Green Growth Strategy with
regards to its implications on sustainability and
low carbon development
Thank you!
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