CONNECTKaro 2015 - Session 6 - Better Growth Better Climate - Key Global Opportunities 2015
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This document outlines a series of major United Nations events in 2015 and 2016 related to sustainable development, climate change, and cities. It discusses the UN Secretary General's Climate Summit in September 2014, the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris in December 2015, the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, the Financing for Development conference in July 2015, and Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. It argues these events present both commitments and opportunities for cities worldwide and in India to advance sustainable and climate-friendly urban development.
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CONNECTKaro 2015 - Session 6 - Better Growth Better Climate - Key Global Opportunities 2015
- 1. HOLGER DALKMANN, EMBARQ DIRECTOR, WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE, WRI ROSS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES ConnectKaro Better Growth, Better Climate - April 16, 2015
- 2. A YEAR OF EVENTS – A YEAR OF COMMITMENTS? UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III
- 3. FINDING COMMON GROUND – FOR CITIES? UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III CITIES? VISIONARY COMMITMENTS FOR THE FUTURE CLIMATE ACTION
- 4. A YEAR OF EVENTS - SDG UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III
- 5. FROM MDGs TO SDGs: New York Sep 2015! Source: United Nations
- 6. “adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services” “safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems” “participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning“ “resilience” “reduce adverse environmental impact of cities” “safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces” “financial and technical assistance for sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials in least developed countries”
- 7. A YEAR OF EVENTS– UNSG&COP UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III
- 8. COP 21 – PARIS DECEMBER 2015 Image: Wikimedia, Creative Commons
- 9. KEY FUNCTIONS OF A GLOBAL AGREEMENT Source: ACT 2015 Elements and Ideas for a 2015 Paris Agreement
- 10. Image: The Danish Wind Industry/Flickr COUNTRY COMMITMENTS
- 11. Image: Jim Killock/Flickr UNSG: CITIES ANNOUNCEMENTS 228 Cities to Cut 13 Gt Home to 436 million people Compact of Mayors Using Global Protocol for Cities
- 12. A YEAR OF EVENTS - FFD UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III
- 13. Photo: Addis Ababa; Flickr/David Stanley FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT Addis Ababa, July 2015 • Promoting international development cooperation • Supporting the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 • Reinvigorating and strengthening financing for development follow-up processes
- 14. A YEAR OF EVENTS – HABITAT III UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III
- 15. HABITAT III – QUITO – Sep 2016 Building on COP21 commitments, SDGs&FFD Photo: Andreas/Flickr 20 • UN global process on cities • Develop a global “new urban agenda” • National assessment • Regional/thematic processes • Potential: Conference of Action
- 16. FINDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIAN CITIES? UNSG Climate Summit COP SDGs FfD Habitat III CITIES?
- 17. OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIAN CITIES? • Support opportunities for funding and capacity building (through national government) • Stronger accounting and management frameworks for cities • Support movement to sustainable cities • New financing mechanisms
- 18. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- First, let’s take a look at the Millennium Development Goals, which will expire this year. There were 8 MDGs, seen here, each with their own set of indicators. Most of these goals tended to be poverty-oriented, with foci in areas such as education and health, and there was one half-hearted goal on the environment. Were they successful or not? Actually, the MDGs were quite successful. They were not perfect, but we could give them a “B+.” Never before in history have we had the pace of poverty reduction that we’ve had during the MDG era. Astonishingly, we have halved extreme poverty, which has never happened before. Source: World Bank
- So where are we now? At the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012, it was agreed that we should replace the Millennium Development Goals with “Sustainable Development Goals.” Since then, a high-level panel, chaired by President Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Prime Minister Cameron of the UK, and President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, convened to discuss and set the stage for the new SDGs. As part of the continuing UN process, we had the Open Working Group and the Expert Committee on Finance also come together. We have made significant progress in SDG process in the last 18 months. Most recently, in December, the Secretary General issued an important Synthesis Report that includes the list of proposed SDG goals and targets. We are pleased broadly where things stand, but a lot has yet to happen between now and September.
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- Lastly, there will be a new approach to finance. It’s a different world we live in in terms of finance. Foreign aid, while still important from a catalytic standpoint, is dramatically less important today than it was at the outset of the MDG era. For example, take tax revenue: in 2000, domestic revenue in developing countries was approximately $1.5 trillion and now it’s almost $10 trillion. (Source: World Bank, Financing for Development Post 2015) The role of the private sector and domestic finance will be radically different for the post-2015 agenda.
- #2 Country Action Plans Transparency Ambition Equity CAIT Pledges Map – In Lima, countries failed to agree to setup an online platform for parties to transparently profile their countries’ proposed actions online. So we built it for them, as the CAIT Pledges Map. This interactive website captures countries’ post-2020 pledges in a way that makes it easy for negotiators, NGOs and other stakeholders to assess countries’ proposed actions and compare them against other countries. As pledges come in this website will be constantly updated, providing a powerful tool for transparency and accountability. Open Book is a WRI initiative that is recruiting stakeholders to help increase the transparency of countries INDCs and develop a common proposal for what information countries should provide. WRI is actively recruiting countries interested in putting forward their INDCs in an open and transparent fashion to participate in Open Book’s consultative group. As part of the group, country representatives and experts will set a model and an expectation for others to follow. INDC Guidebook - WRI, UNDP and the UNFCCC are developing the INDC Guidebook to help guide countries in designing their INDCs to ensure they follow best practices on transparency, equity, ambition and practicality. Open Climate Network is a coalition of research NGOs conducting assessments of the mitigation potential for eight major economies. To inform the development of countries’ mitigation targets in their INDCs, OCN is evaluating these countries’ current emission trajectories as well as opportunities to strengthen emission reductions with additional policy options. OCN will also evaluate the ambition of countries’ INDCs after they are submitted to the UNFCCC. Building Climate Equity is a major report that proposes a new approach to achieving climate equity that links actions to combat climate change with broader equity objectives through building human capabilities. It is just one of the publications we are releasing relating to how to incorporate equity into a Paris agreement. CAIT Equity Explorer is an online tool that allows users to visualize the various aspects of climate equity and see at a glance which countries tend to rank higher or lower across an array of indicators. What users will find is that what is fair or ambitious depends heavily on the criteria you select to compare different countries – from historical emissions to current emissions to a country’s capacity to adapt to climate impacts. Photo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/danishwindindustryassociation/4271360604/
- #3 Further Ambition New Climate Economy Cities Restoration The New Climate Economy Report released by the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate finds that governments and businesses can now improve economic growth and reduce their carbon emissions together. Rapid technological innovation and new investment in infrastructure are making it possible today to tackle climate change at the same time as improving economic performance. The Compact of Mayors, announced at the UN Climate Summit in New York City, convenes cities to set ambitious targets and report their performance transparently. The Compact commits cities to adopting a common accounting standard for measuring their emissions, the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC). Restoration: Protection of forests and restoration of degraded lands should be a fundamental part of a strong, universal climate agreement to be finalised at the COP in Paris in 2015. By far the biggest development on forests in Lima was the launch of Initiative 20x20, a Latin American country-led initiative to restore 20 million hectares of degraded land—an area larger than Uruguay. Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica and two regional programs announced ambitious plans to reforest areas to help capture carbon, enhance biodiversity, improve livelihoods, and make agricultural lands more productive. Five impact investment firms joined the effort by committing $365 million in activities to recover cloud forests, avoid deforestation, boost climate-resilient sustainable agriculture and more. Government, business and local stakeholders can act in their own self-interest to push past the restoration tipping point to make it a global reality. Photo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/embarq/15053602804/
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimkillock/7355686738 Cities account for roughly 70% of global carbon emissions from energy use. The Better Growth, Better Climate report finds that connected, compact cities could save $3 trillion in infrastructure investments over the next 15 years while curbing climate change and improving air quality and public health. The Compact of Mayors, announced at the UN Climate Summit in New York City, convenes cities to set ambitious targets and report their performance transparently. The Compact commits cities to adopting a common accounting standard for measuring their emissions, the Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC). The Compact of Mayors builds on city commitments to reduce their contributions to global climate change. Analysis shows that 228 cities, home to 436 million people, have voluntarily committed to saving 13 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
- To address some of these challenges, the new government has come in some bold ideas. On urbanization, the government has announced the “100 Smart Cities” project. Many of the details about the initiative have yet to be released, but the announcement has led to a productive debate about what makes a “smart city.” Not just a bunch of Ethernet cables, smart cities are all about doing things differently and thinking about cities from standpoint of citizens as well as private sector investors.
- To address some of these challenges, the new government has come in some bold ideas. On urbanization, the government has announced the “100 Smart Cities” project. Many of the details about the initiative have yet to be released, but the announcement has led to a productive debate about what makes a “smart city.” Not just a bunch of Ethernet cables, smart cities are all about doing things differently and thinking about cities from standpoint of citizens as well as private sector investors.
- And, of course, India will be the center of lots of important conversations internationally this year, particularly as the country begins to its place on the global stage. India’s role in the multipolar world is an extra dimension as we head towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the climate deal. India has this massive ambition at home and the opportunity internationally to play the role of global leader and citizen.