Green Growth indicators in Latin America and Caribbean - presentation by Ziga Zarnic, OECD. June 11, 2015

1. Žiga Žarnić
Special Advisor, Environment Directorate
OECD-CAF Joint Seminar for LAC Officials
OECD, 11 June 2015
Monitoring Green Growth
in the LAC Region
Joint UNIDO-CAF-OECD Project

2. WHY DID WE
DO IT?
HOW DID WE
APPROACH IT?
HOW SUITABLE ARE OECD
GREEN GROWTH INDICATORS?
WHAT HAVE WE
LEARNT?
HOW DO WE
CONTINUE?
Mexico
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Colombia
Paraguay
Equador
Peru

3. WHY DID WE
DO IT?
Raising
awareness
Strengthening
capacity to
monitor
progress
Holistic
assessment of
env. impacts
Understanding
the origins of
impacts & risks
to growth
Comparable
reporting:
impact by
impact
Evidence-based
decision-making
←
Making progress
towards green
growth

4. HOW DID WE
APPROACH IT?
Objective:SCOPE THE PROJECT
SELA - Caracas, March 2012:
CAF, OECD, UNIDO, SELA and UNEP met LAC
country representatives to scope the project.
REVIEW PROGRESS
OECD - Paris, June 2012:
Discussed draft indicator-reports.
COMMUNICATE RESULTS
SERE Forum - Quito, September 2012:
Presented preliminary results to policy makers
across Ministries and to the private sector
USE THE KNOWLEDGE
E.g. Mexico City, September 2013:
Inter-Ministerial Dialogue on
Mainstreaming Green Growth
TAKE STOCK OF LEARNINGS
The report “Monitoring Green Growth in the
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Region:
Progress and Challenges “

5. HOW DID WE
APPROACH IT?
Build on existing knowledge,
Draw from existing data,
Spur new alliances.
Country indicator reports:
1 page = 1 indicator
Title: Production-based CO2 emissions
Key message
Chart
Definition of indicator
State and trends
Interpretation

6. HOW SUITABLE ARE OECD
GREEN GROWTH INDICATORS?
0%
50%
100%
Applied indicators (% of
total available)
Policy relevance Analytical soundness Measurability & data
availability
Socio-economic context Environmental and resource productivity
Natural asset base Environmental dimension of life's quality
Economic opportunities and policy responses
Highest*
* Refers to the highest level of i) data availability, ii) analytical soundness, iii) policy relevance, or iv) applied indicators as
percent of total indicators considered in the country case studies. The underlying information is based on preliminary
responses of participant countries on the applicability of green growth indicators to their national contexts (refers to Annex

7. HOW SUITABLE ARE OECD
GREEN GROWTH INDICATORS?
An example: Application in Costa Rica

8. Concise and
standardized
reporting
Identification of
concrete policy steps
Shaping national
policy agendas
Exchange
of
knowledge
Inter-institutional
compilation efforts
Discuss limitations
Adapt indicators to
national context
Prioritise themes
Systematic
description of
variables
International
standards
WHAT HAVE WE
LEARNT?
Sharing good practices
Adaptation Data
CommunicationMeasurement

9. Harmonising concepts
 SEEA
Filling the knowledge gaps
(GGKP)
 E.g. demand side
Prioritising
Questionnaire assessing
relevance and gaps
Investing in the future
 Collect data now
 Good collection techniques
Building experience
 Application in countries
 Pilot studies
 Communicating
Making
progress
w/
measuring
WHAT HAVE WE
LEARNT?
Coping with challenges

10. HOW DO WE
CONTINUE?
Keep up the momentum!
LAC country reports
2011: OECD Green Growth indicators
2013: Green Growth Knowledge Platform
 Scoping paper “Moving towards a common approach
on green growth indicators”
 World country pages on green growth projects
 Country applications
2014: OECD Green Growth indicators update
 Advancing on the measurement agenda
 A step towards a System of Environmental-Economic Accounts
2015: OECD Towards Green Growth – Tracking Progress

11. Thank you for your attention!
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