04/07/2011
In the run-up to the 17th UN Conference
on Climate Change, to be held in December
in Durban (South Africa), the Brazilian
Environment Minister, Izabella Teixeira,
is in Berlin (Germany) to participate in
a high-level dialogue on the subject. The
Petersberg Climate Dialogue II - Rising
to the Climate Change brings together environment
ministers from different countries and the
German Prime Minister
Angela Merkel.
The two-day meeting
that began yesterday (July 3) is an opportunity
for ministers and negotiators to discuss
international topics, such as the second
period of commitment of the Kyoto Protocol
and the implementation of existing agreements
and strategies aimed at the transition towards
a 'green economy'.
International events
- Izabella Teixeira has just returned from
the United States, where she participated
in the Opening Plenary of the UNDP Global
Management Meeting. Held in late June in
New York, the meeting brought together managers
of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in the world. In her speech, the
minister highlighted the importance of all
UN member countries engaging in the process
leading up to the United Nations Conference
on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in June
2012.
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CDKN launches new guide:
Green growth - implications for development
planning
26/07/2011
Contributing to an expanding debate on economics
and climate change, CDKN has launched a
Guide to Green Growth. Aimed primarily at
national planners and policy advisors in
developing countries, the Guide focuses
on the role of economic tools in planning
for green growth.
How do decision-makers
create a vision and strategy for green growth?
What skills do planners need to work effectively
with the range of green growth tools available?
And how do they assess which tools are right
for them? These are some of the questions
explored by the CDKN Guide.
The Guide concludes
that green growth planning needs to be an
iterative process, adapting to local developments
over time and responding to the needs of
national and local stakeholders. Planners
rarely find the process straightforward
and rely on economic principles and tools
to inform the process. However, conventional
tools may not address environmental and
social dimensions adequately or look beyond
economic metrics.
New tools and methods
have emerged and existing ones have also
evolved. Opening up the 'black box' of economic
tools so that they are more accessible to
policy makers and stakeholders, and using
them to obtain real commitments, remain
key challenges.
The Guide touches on
case studies in Borneo and Rwanda to highlight
how stakeholder participation in green growth
planning can work in practice.
Source: www.uncsd2012.org
