The Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GG-SD) Forum held on November 23, 2012 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris brought together experts from different policy fields and disciplines.
Green growth should be explicit on societal development and poverty eradication. Photo: UCSD
Events focused on ?encouraging efficient and sustainable use of natural resources, policy instruments and social acceptability. This new initiative by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) aimed at providing a dedicated space for multidisciplinary dialogue on green growth and sustainable development.
Many economists and policy makers now advocate a fundamental shift towards ?green growth? as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material, resource, energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. Critics say it is a reductionist approach that needs to look at broader issues.
A number of global initiatives and discussions on advancing green growth are already underway targeting rich, middle income and developing countries alike.
According to OECD, green growth is about fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural resource assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services for sustainable livelihoods.
Green growth can therefore open new sources of growth through incentives for greater efficiency in use of natural resources and natural assets, open up opportunities for innovation, spurred by policies and framework conditions that allow new ways of creating value and addressing environmental problems, creation of new markets by stimulating demand for green technologies, goods and services; boosting investor confidence through greater predictability and continuity around how governments deal with major environmental issues; and securing a more balanced macroeconomic conditions, reduced resource price volatility and supporting fiscal consolidation.
According to OECD, the global economic crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed. In response, many governments are putting in place measures aimed at a green recovery that can be a long-term driver for economic growth, through, investing in renewable energy and improved efficiency in the use of energy and materials.
Earlier during the Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GG-SD) Forum 2012, Frank Sperling the Chief Climate Change Specialist from the Africa Development Bank noted that there is still skepticism whenever green growth discussions take place in Africa, due to the perception that it will constrain growth by creating conditionality.
He noted that Africa?s ecological footprint is increasing, coupled with many pressing development needs including addressing energy access, water and sanitation and issues around urbanization. Moreover the continent is vulnerable to climate change, which is compounding local environmental challenges that affects land, water, fisheries and livelihoods.
The Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GG-SD) Forum held on November 23, 2012 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris brought together experts from different policy fields and disciplines. Events focused on ?encouraging efficient and sustainable use of natural resources, policy instruments and social acceptability.
This new initiative by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) aimed at providing a dedicated space for multidisciplinary dialogue on green growth and sustainable development.
Many economists and policy makers now advocate a fundamental shift towards ?green growth? as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material, resource, energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. Critics say it is a reductionist approach that needs to look at broader issues. A number of global initiatives and discussions on advancing green growth are already underway targeting rich, middle income and developing countries alike.
According to OECD, green growth is about fostering economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural resource assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services for sustainable livelihoods.
Green growth can therefore open new sources of growth through incentives for greater efficiency in use of natural resources and natural assets, open up opportunities for innovation, spurred by policies and framework conditions that allow new ways of creating value and addressing environmental problems, creation of new markets by stimulating demand for green technologies, goods and services; boosting investor confidence through greater predictability and continuity around how governments deal with major environmental issues; and securing a more balanced macroeconomic conditions, reduced resource price volatility and supporting fiscal consolidation.
According to OECD, the global economic crisis convinced many countries that a different kind of economic growth is needed. In response, many governments are putting in place measures aimed at a green recovery that can be a long-term driver for economic growth, through, investing in renewable energy and improved efficiency in the use of energy and materials.
Earlier during the Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GG-SD) Forum 2012, Frank Sperling the Chief Climate Change Specialist from the Africa Development Bank noted that there is still skepticism whenever green growth discussions take place in Africa, due to the perception that it will constrain growth by creating conditionality.
He noted that Africa?s ecological footprint is increasing, coupled with many pressing development needs including addressing energy access, water and sanitation and issues around urbanization. Moreover the continent is vulnerable to climate change, which is compounding local environmental challenges that affects land, water, fisheries and livelihoods.
?We ask specifically that in future versions of this Forum civil society representative are given an equal opportunity to participate in the stakeholder engagement process and also to contribute with their own presentations on green economy perspectives.
On wellbeing CSOs want green growth to be explicit in its ambitions for societal development and poverty eradication taking into account the institutional and contextual analysis, importantly in respect of land and resource tenure, among others. Therefore they asked OECD & Governments to have policies on wellbeing and link that to the process of developing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
arsenic and old lace leslie varez ward solar storms uganda the parent trap invisible children kony 2012
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.