Technical Workshop: Reviewing an Inclusive Green Economy's Contribution to SDGs
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Workshop
on Reviewing an Inclusive Green Economy’s Contribution to SDGs
Incheon, Republic of Korea, April 25-26, 2016
Introduction
On 25-26,
April 2016, the environmental experts from different countries joined the
technical workshop on the reviewing an inclusive green economy’s contribution
to SDGs in Oakwood Premier Incheon, Incheon, Republic of Korea, to discuss and
share their experience and knowledge on how they can find the new way or
mechanisms for boosting green economy with the ambitious of fulfill the goals
of SDGs. The present experts meeting focused on finding the weakness or lacking
points of policy reviews of country experience, discussing the methodologies of
policy evaluation and IGE policy review methodology.
Session 1: An Inclusion Green Economy (IGE) and Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
1.
The evolving narrative and indicators of an IGE as an integrated approach to
sustainable development
- Ways to find out the indicator of IGE
- Ways to change the economy transformation to
contribute to green growth environment.
- Top agenda of SDGs: Poverty eradication and equity
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Investments in sustainable transportation. Case of Denmark
2.
Update on SDGs national processes and indicators development
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World economy growth in the context of sustainable development.
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National development process of Korea, SD implementation plans for 2006-2010
and 2011-2015
3. Discussion
§ Significance of
transboundary issues in regard to SDGs
§ Comparison of Inclusive
Green Economy (IGE) and SDGs
§ Role of government in
implementing SDGs.
Session 2: Country Experience on IGE and Policy Reviews
1. Policy Review as Part of
an Integrated Public Policy-Making Process
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Policy Reviews as a part of an integrated Public Policy- Making Process in
relation to inclusive green economy (IGE)
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Implementing Policy Reviews by looking at Green Policy Options, Policy
Assessments, Policy Implementation as well as Policy Evaluation to identify
Impacts of Policy Implementation
2. Korea’s Green Growth
Experience
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Transformation since 2008 from (1) Resource Efficient Growth (2) Eco-Friendly Growth
and to (3) Climate Resilient Growth
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1st Five-Year Plan of Korea
(2009-2013)
- Korea’s development
model of “low carbon green growth”
3. China’s Green
Development: Strategy, Assessment and Policy Review
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13th FYP Program about
Strategy, Assessment and Policy Review of China to Green Development (2016-2020)
- Seven main targets of the 13th FYP
4. Mongolia’s Green Development
Experience
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Analysis of the National Policies for Green Development of Mongolia
- Mongolia’s Green Development Policy
- Mongolian Government’s effective Partnership
Platform between international development community and Government of
Mongolia, private sector and others
5. Achieving a green economy and sustainable society in Japan
- Japan’s Approaches to Green Economy for
Sustainable Society
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Adaption effectiveness SDGs indicators
6.
Discussion
- Development of an assessment framework for Green
Growth Economy.
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Linkage of GGE targets
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Japan’s approach to green innovation
Session 3: Policy Evaluation Methodologies
1.
The role of modeling in policy reviews
- Policy assessment on the modeling of iSDG model
integrated simulation models in policy review
2. The
role of modeling in policy reviews
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A new growth model integrated green growth policy.
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Main factors of green growth strategy (OECD, 2011) for promoting growth with
green economy
3. UNDP’s environmental governance and capacity development
reviews
- Key to capacity development
on global environmental projects and definition of capacity development projects.
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GEF’s Capacity Development Initiatives
4. OECD's Environmental Performance Review
- EPR (environmental performance review):
Introduction and objectives
5. UNCTAD's Investment Policy Review
- UNCTAD’s investment policy review program
- Five phases of Investment Policy Review Process and key success factors
6. The role of national
footprint accounting in green economy and SGDs
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Footprint Indicators that reflect environmental friendly development: Ecological
footprint, carbon footprint, material footprint, water footprint.
- Footprints in IGE Indicators: Problem
issue, policy targets, policy inputs, and impacts.
7. Discussion
- OECD's Environmental Performance Review: Cost and
duration
- Environment
policy review related to the impact of economic outcome
Session 4: Generating, Managing and Sharing Green Knowledge
1. Green Growth Knowledge
Platform (GGKP)
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Introduction of GGKP
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GGKP’s Strategy:
(1) Generate (2) Share (3) Manage (4) Data to mobilize a sustainable future.
2. Discussion
- Importance
of financial resources
- Allowing access to process by enhancing international
partnership
- Key role of government in policy formulation,
decision-making, implementation and evaluation
- Goal 8 of SDGs: Economic transformation and creation of decent
jobs
3. Conclusions and closing:
Objective
of this technical workshop to discuss Inclusive Green Economy (IGG) and its
contribution to SDGs
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