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2015 - LANDMARK YEAR FORGREEN GROWTH

AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Annual OperationalPlanning Meeting

February 3 - 4, 2016Harold’s Hotel

Cebu City

2015 Landmark events forgreen growth and

sustainable development

24 May 2015Pope Francis’s encyclical letter “Laudato Si’ on Care for our Common Home”

25 September 2915From Millennium Development Goals MDGsto Sustainable Development Goals SDGs

15 December 2015COP 21 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Several events in 201527th ASEAN Summiton 21/22 November 2015Multiple events in 2015

Summit on 18/19 November 2015Asia Pacific Economic

Cooperation APEC

Vatican State24 May 2015

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Laudato SiEncyclical 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

New York25 September 2015

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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

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Millennium Development GoalsEight Goals for the Agenda 2000 - 2015

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

The Millennium Development Goal framework has helped to galvanize development efforts and guide global and national development priorities toward poverty alleviation in developing countries

While the progress of attainment of the eight Goals has been unequal, among countries and among the goals, there are still challenges

It’s 2015! Now what?

The remaining biggest challenges• Resources to deliver the goals• Structural constraints• Lack of “country ownership”• Absence of monitoring and accountability mechanism

After 15 years…

“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 SDG agenda in the making

SDG formulation transparent, inclusive and intergovernmental process

A set 17 SDGs have been adopted

Post 2015 Development Agenda from MDGs to SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) incorporate all three dimensions of sustainable development and their interlinkages

MDGs 2000 - 2015

Based on principals of Earth Summit 1992, Rio principlesSDGs 2016 - 2030

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 approachApproached in an more open and transparent process

8 goals with 18 targets17 goals with 169 targets

Strong focus on social dimensionsAll 3 dimensions of sustainable development are addressed

No funds for implementation availableSDG fund setup as international cooperation mechanism

MDG achievement data was incomplete, lack of time frameYearly reported achievement indicators, but not all target data

Millennium Development Goalsto Sustainable Development Goals

More goals directly linked to climate change (MDGs: only one)

SDGs as Driver ofthe Environmental Shift

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

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

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

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

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

SDGs as Driver ofthe Environmental Shift and GED

ThematicNational Regional

Global

SDG Indicators have a multi-level review process, from national and thematic to regional to global

SDG Indicators consists of currently 100 Global Monitoring Indicators, accompanied by suggestions for Complementary National Indicators to pick from

SDGs Multi-Level Implementation and Review Process

On national levelExisting national institutions such as NEDA in the Philippines

On regional levelTo be facilitated by the UN Regional Commissions, likeUNESCAP for Asia-Pacific

On global levelHigh-level Political Forum (HLPF) will meet annually under the ECOSOC. Heads of States will meet every four years under the UN General Assembly

SDGs Multi-Level Implementation and Review Process

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Manila18-19 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.”

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 States Committed to the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development

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 markets2) increasing inequality3) the gap in physical infrastructure4) the need to foster innovation and increase access to skills5) environmental concerns that include the impact of climate

change6) food security and sustainable management of agriculture.APEC Strategy for Strengthening Quality Growth 2015

APEC 2015 – Policy Statement to Environmental Impacts

c. Environmental ImpactResponses 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 ParisClimate Conference in December.We therefor reaffirm our aspirational goalsto reduce aggregate energy intensity by45 percent by 2035 and double renewableenergy in the regional energy mix by 2030to 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

Kuala Lumpur21-22 November 2015

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ASEAN Community Vision 2025

ASEAN Community Vision 2025

ASEAN Community Vision 2025

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

ASEAN Strategic Action Plan for SME Development

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 climate-related 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.

Paris15 December 2015

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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 Conference Of Parties 21

The Road to Paris COP 21

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.

A total of 36,276 participants, of whom 23,107 were official government delegates, have attended the COP 21 events

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

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

Outcome of COP 21

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

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

Philippine Influence in Paris Agreement

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

Green Expo and

Conferences

Energy Efficiency Law

Energy Efficiency Roadmap

Renewable Energy

Development

Feed-in-Tariff and Net Metering

Update of the National CC Action Plan

Green Public Procurement

Philippine Contributions

to COP 21

Eco Labelling & Certification

Green Jobs Act

Green Financing

Electric Mobility

Emission Standard

Euro 4

Legislating Green

Building Standards

Green Building Code

of DPWH

Sustainable Tourism

Ecotourism

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

Leading the future economic strategy through Green Growth

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