Low Carbon Green Growth Roadmap & Online E‐Learning Capacity Development

Hala Razian, Environment and Development DivisionUnited Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 

ESCAP is committed to a resilient Asia and the Pacific founded on shared prosperity, social equity and 

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ESCAP is committed to a resilient Asia and the Pacific founded on shared prosperity, social

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equity and sustainability.

Green Growth is one of the strategies to achieve sustainable development

GREEN GROWTH CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT

Green Growth is one of the strategies to achieve sustainable development,that focuses on greening conventional economic systems and developing agreen economy, at the same time as addressing poverty by implementingsustainable economic growth strategies.

2014OWG SDGs

2012Rio+20 Green

Economy

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Green growth - strategy to cope with resource and climate crisisresource and climate crisis

Green Growth • Conventional growth paradigm based on cheap labor and resources

• Focuses on quantity of growth, not quality

• Low productivity of labor & very 

• Investment in human (labor) and natural (resources) capital

• Improvement of labor productivity

(invest)

Vicious l /

Virtuous resource and pollution intensive

• Leads to social exclusion and environmental unsustainability

Brown Growth

• Improvement of labor productivity and resource efficiency

• Improves quality of growth: higher productivity and resource efficiency

cycle/Quantity of Growth 

cycle/Quality of Growth 

Brown Growth (exploit)

Cheap Reso rceCheap Resources

Resource Efficiency

Cheap Labor

Productive Labor Force

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‐Indonesia’s Fossil Fuel SubsidiesIndonesia s Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Indonesia & IranFuel Subsidy Reforms

Iran:

•Targeted Subsidy Reform Act (2010) introduced over 2010-2015

Indonesia:

• Concern over the rising cost of fuel in 2005, the Government increased the cost of fossil f ( % %) • In-cash / in-kind payments & Social

security system• US$50-60 billion savings in one year• Half re-distributed to households,

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fuels (29% and 114%).• This reduced the State budget deficit by US$4.5 billion in 2005, and US$10 billion in 2006

T i i i di h US$10-15 billion advanced to enterprise finance for energy efficiency• 30% to production sectors – loans & credit lines

• To mitigate impact on poor, direct cash transfer programme reaching 19.2 million households • Commitment to reduction – $24.9 billion - 14%

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‐• Mongolia

Vi t N• Fiji• Bhutan

• Singapore• Pakistan• Viet Nam

• Cambodia• China

• Bhutan• Kazakhstan• Russian Federation

• Pakistan• India • Others!• China Russian Federation Others!

BUT…

‐Five Tracks of Green Growth

Track 1: From quantity of growth to quality of growth

Track 2: Changing the invisibleTrack 2: Changing the invisible structure of the economy

Track 3: Changing the visible g gstructure of the economy

Track 4: Turning green into a business opportunitybusiness opportunity

Track 5: Formulating and implementing low‐carbonimplementing low carbon development strategies 63 fact sheets, 51 case studies

& 8 policy papers

Green Growth Capacity Development

Since 2005; about 1500 policy makers from 59 countries10 i l li di l10 regional policy dialogues; 10 National and 14 Regional Training of Trainers Seminars; 6 Leadership Workshops;Seminars; 6 Leadership Workshops;Pilot applications in Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Samoa, Fiji;On-line e-Learning Facility and national e-Learning nodes g y g

On‐line e‐Learning FacilityLearning Management System On-Line

www.greengrowth-elearning.org/lms

BLENDED TRAINING | Capacity Development Programme

Training combines a mixed methods approachTraining combines a mixed methods approach

• 22 e-learning sessions

• 1,309 participants trained

•120,000 page views

• 35% new visitors

• English, Russian, Arabic

TRAINING PROCESS

Study Visit on Good Implementation Practices of GreenStudy Visit on Good Implementation Practices of Green Growth Policy Tools for Low Carbon Development

National Training Nodes

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Green Growth Portalwww.greengrowth.org

CASE STUDIES | Green Growth Best Practices

Country Case No. Country Case No. Country Case No.

ASEAN 1 Japan 1 Pakistan 4Australia 2 Jordan 1 Palestine 1

Table: Case studies by country or regional organization examined

Australia 2 Jordan 1 Palestine 1Bangladesh 1 Kazakhstan 4 Singapore 1Bhutan 1 Korea 1 South Africa 1Brunei Darussalam 2 Kyrgyzstan 1 South Korea 1Bulgaria 2 Lao PDR 2 Sri Lanka 1Cambodia 6 Latvia 1 Sweden 2Cambodia 6 Latvia 1 Sweden 2China 3 Lebanon 2 Syria 1ECOWAS 1 Malaysia 8 Thailand 13Egypt 1 Mexico 1 The Philippines 8Ethiopia 1 Myanmar 4 Timor Leste 1It l 1 N l 4 USA 1Italy 1 Nepal 4 USA 1India 10 Oman 2 Vietnam 30Iraq 1 Total 130130 case studies from 37 countries

GREEN GROWTH ON‐LINE E‐LEARNING AUDIENCE OVERVIEW

Number of web sessions over time:

Users by country: On-line users by country:

Next Steps• Ongoing capacity building (Russian Federation, Mongolia…)g g p y g ( , g )

• New training modules in development (Green Business Handbook, Sustainable Urban Development, … )

• Quality of Growth Series: Ongoing research on best-practice and policy guidance

• Developing decision support tools

• Transformations for the SDGs in Asia and the Pacific

http://www.unescap.org/our‐work/environment‐development

&http://www.greengrowth‐elearning.org/

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