Janathaksha's experience on Promoting Pro-Poor Low Carbon Development in Sri Lanka

1. Panacea or Pandora’s
Box?
Promoting Pro-Poor Low Carbon Development in Sri
Lanka

2. A Sri Lankan perspective
1. A development policy with a climate change component or vice versa?
2. A convenient scapegoat or a genuine platform for reform and
sustainable development?
3. A means to an end or an end in itself?

3. Introduction
•Status of Sri Lankan emissions : The baseline
•Formulating pro-poor low carbon policies : Theory and reality
• Low Carbon Development Strategies

4. A Baseline Study

5. Fossil fuels – changingcourse?
Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy (2015) – Energy Empowered Nation 2015-2015

6. Fossil fuels – Total Primary EnergySupplybySource
Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy (2015) – Energy Empowered Nation 2015-2015

7. SectoralEnergyDemand
Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy (2015) – Energy Empowered Nation 2015-2015

8. Theory and reality
Formulating pro-poor low carbon policies

9. Envisioning the position of low carbon
policy
• Where does Pro-Poor Development fit in the midst of competing or complimenting
climate policies?
• Should an LCD strategy occupy a coordinating role? Or should it dictate changes in
other policies?

10. Low carbonstrategy :at the centre of thepolicyuniverse?
OECD (2010) , LEDs technical, institutional and policy lessons

11. Low carbonstrategy :A Typical policy planningcycle
OECD (2010) , LEDs technical, institutional and policy lessons

12. Low carbonstrategy :The role of civil societies
OECD (2010) , LEDs technical, institutional and policy lessons

13. Low carbonstrategy :The role of civil societies
OECD (2010) , LEDs technical, institutional and policy lessons

14. Low Carbon
Development Strategies

15. Ameans to anend :the end is sustainabledevelopment*
Sustainable development in Sri Lanka’s context is a zero-carbon circular economic idea. (Fernando & Gunesekera)

16. RenewableEnergy- UntappedPotential
Sri Lanka Ministry of Power and Energy (2015) – Energy Empowered Nation 2015-2015

17. Fossil Fuel Subsidies

18. Special focus: private sector
•Private sector expertise and technology (the private sector accounts for most of the
R&D relative to governments)
•Private sector finance - private sector is an important source of finance.
•Voluntary standards - many sectors and industries require voluntary codes to regulate
their emissions and LCD.
•Support for sustainable development - private sector is an important partner in
establishing sustainable development practices (refer WCSD 2000)