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2015 - LANDMARK YEAR FOR
GREEN GROWTH
AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Annual Operational
Planning Meeting
February 3 - 4, 2016
Harold’s Hotel
Cebu City
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2015 Landmark events for
green growth and
sustainable development
24 May 2015
Pope Francis’s encyclical letter “Laudato Si’
on Care
for our
Common
Home”
Several
events
in 2015
th ASEAN Summit
25
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27September
15 December 2015
From
Millennium
Development
Goals MDGs
on 21/22
November
2015
Multiple
events
in 2015
COP 21 – United Nations
to
Sustainable
Goals SDGs
Summit on 18/19 NovemberDevelopment
2015
Framework Convention on
Asia Pacific Economic
Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Cooperation APEC
A Year’s Global Schedule for More
Commitment and Responsibility
Vatican State
24 May 2015
Laudato Si
Encyclical Letter Key Messages

The spiritual perspective is now part of the
discussion on the environment.

The poor are disproportionately affected by
climate change

Everything is connected—including the
economy.

Scientific research on the environment is to be
praised and used.

Widespread indifference and selfishness
worsen environmental problems.

Global dialogue and solidarity are needed.
“A new dialogue about
how we are shaping the
future of our planet. We
need a conversation
which includes everyone,
since the environmental
challenge we are
undergoing, and its
human roots, concern
and affect us all.”
Laudato Si, Para 14
“The human environment and the natural environment deteriorate
together; we cannot adequately combat environmental
degradation unless we attend to causes related to human and
social degradation. In fact, the deterioration of the environment
and of society affects the most vulnerable people on the planet.”
Laudato Si, Chap. 5, 163-200
“There is an urgent need to
substitute fossil fuels with
sustainable energy and this must
be available to everyone, including
the poorest. Richer countries must
help poorer countries to make the
shift away from fossil fuels or
leapfrog to cleaner sources of
energy through financing,
technology transfer and technical
assistance.”
Laudato Si, Chap. 26 & 52, 165 &
179
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Commitment and Responsibility
New York
25 September 2015
Why Global Development Goals?
 Recognition of the international community that the
development of common goals could be useful for
pursuing focused and coherent action on sustainable
development
 To establish a common baseline and ambition for
development actions
 They represent a partnership between the developed
countries and developing countries to create an
environment –at the national and global levels alike–
which is conducive to development and the elimination of
poverty
Millennium Development Goals
Eight Goals for the Agenda 2000 - 2015
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11
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6
It’s 2015! Now what?
After 15 years…
Millenniumbiggest
Development
Goal framework has helped to
The remaining
challenges
galvanize
development
and guide global and national
• Resources
to deliverefforts
the goals
development priorities toward poverty alleviation in
• Structural constraints
developing countries
• Lack of “country ownership”
While the progress of attainment of the eight Goals has
• Absence of monitoring and accountability mechanism
been unequal, among countries and among the goals, there
are still challenges
“We can take pride in what we have accomplished [over the past 15
years of the MDGs Agenda], but we cannot be complacent.”
Barak Obama, President of the United States
Post 2015 Development Agenda
from MDGs to SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) incorporate all
three dimensions of sustainable development and their
interlinkages
 Post-2015 SDG
agenda in the making
 SDG formulation
transparent, inclusive
and intergovernmental
process
 A set 17 SDGs have
been adopted
MDGs 2000 - 2015
SDGs 2016 - 2030
Based on principals of Earth Summit 1992, Rio principles
Further defined by Rio+20 outcome “The Future We Want”
1st universal agreed development agenda
Continuation of DG efforts with the ambition to finish targets
Top – Down technical approach
Approached in an more open and transparent process
8 goals with 18 targets
17 goals with 169 targets
Strong focus on social dimensions
All 3 dimensions of sustainable development are addressed
No funds for implementation available
SDG fund setup as international cooperation mechanism
MDG achievement data was incomplete, lack of time frame
Yearly reported achievement indicators, but not all target data
Millennium Development Goals
to Sustainable Development Goals
More goals directly linked to climate change (MDGs: only one)
SDGs as Driver of
the Environmental Shift
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat
climate change and its impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the
oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development
Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable
use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage
forests, combat desertification, and halt and
reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDGs as Driver of
the Environmental Shift and GED
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and
sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all
Target 8.4, Improve progressively, through 2030, global
resource efficiency in consumption and production and
endeavor to decouple economic growth from environmental
degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of
programs on sustainable consumption and production, with
developed countries taking the lead
SDGs Multi-Level
Implementation and Review Process
National
Regional
Thematic
SDG Indicators have a multi-level review process,
from national and thematic to regional to global
SDG Indicators consists of currently
100 Global
Global
Monitoring Indicators, accompanied by suggestions
for Complementary National Indicators to pick from
SDGs Multi-Level
Implementation and Review Process
On national level
Existing national institutions such as NEDA in the
Philippines
On regional level
To be facilitated by the UN Regional Commissions, like
UNESCAP for Asia-Pacific
On global level
High-level Political Forum (HLPF) will meet annually under
the ECOSOC. Heads of States will meet every four years
under the UN General Assembly
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commitment and responsibility
Manila
18-19 November 2015
APEC 2015 - Strategy for Strengthening
Economic Quality Growth
“We reiterate the call of Leaders through the 2010 APEC Growth
Strategy to develop more resource-efficient economies that will
enable us to prosper as low-carbon and resilient societies. We
continue to encourage new green industries and jobs.”
APEC States Committed to the 2030
Agenda of Sustainable Development
We welcome global efforts to lift economic growth, including
the existing work of the G20 and the United Nations, which
recently released the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
We reaffirm APEC’s commitment in complementing the global
efforts in addressing the many challenges to sustainable
economic growth. The APEC Strategy for Strengthening
Quality Growth will bring more synergy between the APEC
Growth Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals.
APEC 2015 – Leading Recognition on
Climate Change Impacts
We recognize that global economic growth continues to face
major challenges and note that regional growth remains
moderate and uneven. The Asia-Pacific region is faced with
such challenges as:
1) potential volatility in financial markets
2) increasing inequality
3) the gap in physical infrastructure
4) the need to foster innovation and increase access to skills
5) environmental concerns that include the impact of climate
change
6) food security and sustainable management of agriculture.
APEC Strategy for Strengthening Quality Growth 2015
APEC 2015 – Policy Statement
to Environmental Impacts
c. Environmental Impact
Responses to climate change include measures to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, to increase carbon sequestration, and to adapt to the
effects of climate change. Measures to reduce emissions will encourage
economies to move toward low carbon societies. Meanwhile, we
emphasize the need to adapt to climate change through disaster
preparedness and risk reduction. Adaptation entails investments in
science and technology, disaster resilient infrastructure, and eco-system
based adaptation, among other strategies. Both adaptation and mitigation
measures will be important for agriculture, fishery, forestry and
industrialization policies. We reiterate the call of Leaders through the 2010
APEC Growth Strategy to develop more resource-efficient economies that
will enable us to prosper as low-carbon and resilient societies. We
continue to encourage new green industries and jobs.
APEC 2015 – Business Events
Acknowledge Green Growth
“We are firmly committed to achieving a fair,
balanced, ambitious, durable and dynamic
agreement on climate change at the Paris
Climate Conference in December.
We therefor reaffirm our aspirational goals
to reduce aggregate energy intensity by
45 percent by 2035 and double renewable
energy in the regional energy mix by 2030
to achieve sustainable and resilient energy
development within the Asia-Pacific.”
Manila Declaration on Climate Change of the Philippine
Private Sector, October 2015
Video - Green Growth in Asia ???
To be decided in Cebu
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Commitment and Responsibility
Kuala Lumpur
21-22 November 2015
ASEAN Community Vision 2025
ASEAN Community Vision 2025
ASEAN Community Vision 2025
ASEAN Strategic Action Plan
for SME Development
ASEAN Strategic Action Plan
for SME Development
Priority of Actions and Pathways 2020-2015:
 To become globally competitive, innovative, inclusive and
resilient,
 By promoting among others…
– Incentives for innovation and green industries
– Business matching and big brother approaches
– International standards of quality for market access
– Adoption of green initiatives and technology
26th ASEAN Summit Adopts Declaration on
Climate Change and Resilience
The Heads of State and Government of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have
signed a declaration committing to economic, social,
cultural, physical and environmental measures that
will reduce vulnerability to disaster and climaterelated risks. The signatories pledge their intention to
systematically mainstream disaster risk management
(DRM) and climate change adaptation into policy
making at the local, national and regional levels
through multistakeholder engagement.
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Paris
15 December 2015
The Road to Paris
Conference Of Parties 21
Since the first Conference Of Parties (COP) in Berlin in 1995,
the meetings have adopted significant agreements.
Unlike all previous meetings, the 2015 Paris Climate
Conference aimed to achieve a legally binding and universal
agreement on climate, the first in over 20 years of UN
negotiations.
The Road to Paris COP 21
A total of 36,276 participants, of whom 23,107 were
official government delegates, have attended the COP 21
events
In order to reach a new universal climate agreement, the
delegates of the 196 States Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have
finally agreed on the treaty on 11 December 2015.
Key Messages to COP 21
Key Messages to COP 21
“The Paris Agreement allows
each delegation and group
of countries to go back home
with their heads held high.
Our collective effort is worth
more than the sum of our
individual effort. Our
responsibility to history is
immense”
Laurent Fabius, President of COP
21 and French Foreign Minister
Key Messages to COP 21
“While the post-industrial
period may well be
remembered as one of the
most irresponsible in history,
humanity at the dawn of the
twenty-first century will be
remembered for having
generously shouldered its
grave responsibilities”
The Holy Father Pope Francis
Key Messages to COP 21
“I believe this moment can
be a turning point for the
world. The Paris agreement
establishes the enduring
framework the world needs
to solve the climate crisis. It
creates the mechanism, the
architecture, for us to
continually tackle this
problem in an effective way.”
Barak Obama, President of the
United States of America
Key Messages to COP 21
“As President of a nation
increasingly affected by the
new normal, I believe the
real challenge begins with an
accounting of capacities:
How do we ask everyone to
contribute, and how do we
ask those with more to help
out those with less?”
Benigno S. Aquino III, President of
the Philippines
Philippines is 4th Most Disaster-Prone
Country in the World
The Philippines was fourth in
the world among countries
hit by the highest number of
disasters over the past 20
years, according to the
United Nations Office for
Disaster Risk Reduction
(UNISDR).
From 1995 to 2015, the
country has endured 274
natural calamities, affecting
130 billion people.
Outcome of COP 21
188 countries contributed national climate action plans to the new
agreement, which will dramatically slow the pace of global
greenhouse gas emissions. These plans will be revised every five
years, thereby steadily increasing the ambitions in the long-term.
The universal agreement’s main aim is to keep a global
temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to
drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Countries will continue to engage in a process on mitigation
opportunities and will put added focus on adaptation opportunities.
Additionally, they will work to define a clear roadmap on ratcheting
up climate finance to USD 100 billion by 2020
Outcome of COP 21
The outcome covers all the crucial areas identified as essential
for a landmark conclusion:
 Mitigation – reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the
temperature goal
 A transparency system and global stock-take – accounting for
climate action
 Adaptation – strengthening ability of countries to deal with
climate impacts
 Loss and damage – strengthening ability to recover from
climate impacts
 Support – including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient
futures
COP 21 to COP 22
Way forward
Before COP 22 in November 2016 parties have committed to
process the agreement by ratification, acceptance and
approval. At least 55 countries have to sign so that it will
come into force
Until April 2017 parties have to define their National
Determined Contribution (NDC), based on the conditions as
agreed and on the earlier submitted Indented National
Determined Contribution (INDC)
Deadline of submission is 21 April 2017 to UN head office in
New York
Reflection of PH Delegation
to COP 21
“Now we have a universal
agreement. We have found
a common ground where we
could work on and move
forward as one family of
nations with greater ambition
and resolve, to really combat
effectively the climate
change impacts,”
Emmanuel de Guzman, head of the
Philippine delegation
Philippine Influence in
Paris Agreement
 Championed its main advocacy of raising global ambition
by limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius
 Joined and enabled the High Ambition Coalition, which
pushed for 1.5 degrees Celsius goal
 Instrumental in the inclusion of human rights and
ecological integrity in the Paris Agreement
 Played a role in the recognition of loss and damage as a
separate issue from adaptation
 Ensured the qualified ‘grant-based’ in the provision of
finance
COP 21 Commitments of the
Philippines

Among the commitments of the Philippines to address
climate change is to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030,
as stated in its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution
(INDC) submitted to UNFCCC October 2015 and conditional

The reduction will come from the country’s energy, transport,
waste, forestry and industry sectors.

CCC Commissioner Emmanuel de Guzman, on the other hand,
called for a global warming target less than 1.5 degrees C.
Recent Developments in the
Philippines promoting GED
GP3
Energy
Efficiency Law
Renewable
Energy
Development
Green Expo
and
Conferences
Energy
Efficiency
Roadmap
Feed-in-Tariff
and Net
Metering
Philippine
Contributions
to COP 21
Eco Labelling
& Certification
Emission
Standard
Euro 4
Sustainable
Tourism
Ecotourism
Update of the
National CC
Action Plan
Green
Financing
Green Public
Procurement
Legislating
Green
Building
Standards
Green
Building Code
of DPWH
Electric
Mobility
Green Jobs
Act
Leading the future economic
strategy through Green Growth
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris
Agreement demonstrate:
 Opportunities for DTI to champion GED in the Philippines
 “Green Growth” is not to be seen as an add on, but as a
key driver for innovation
 GED inherent in process, technological and product
innovation
 GED is mitigation as well as adaptation
 Greening business performances = Strengthening
systemic competitiveness and fostering inclusive growth
of the Philippine economy
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Salamat kaayo
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