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GEC history, partners and

purpose

GEC shared vision: prosperity for all within one

planet

GEC goal: to accelerate the transition to a green,

fair and inclusive economy

GEC strength: 35+ diverse organisations with a

shared narrative and collaborative projects

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Coalition

Stern report UK (2006)

UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative

launched (2008)

Green Economy Coalition formed

(2009) Planetary

boundaries first published (2009)

Rio puts Green Economy on

agenda(2010)

GGGI formed (2010)

Oxfam launches ‘land grabs’

campaign (2012)

First UN Partnership for Action on the

Green Economy (PAGE) Conference

(2013)

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USP?

• Our scope: Only alliance looking across whole transition picture rather than single units

(e.g. energy policy or finance reform)

• Our diversity: Members represent very different interests: environment, development,

labour, UN, business and come from around the world.

• Our brand: We are trusted and recognised to tackle the full range of green economy

issues

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1. Ensure that ecological limits, inclusivity and equity underscore green economic

policies and activities at all levels

2. Shape the agendas of ‘economic power’: e.g. G20, World Economic Forum,

governments, World Bank.

3. Drive coherence across green economy policy processes and stakeholder groups

(business, governments, civil society)

4. Expand and maintain our position as the clearest, most influential civil society voice on

green economy

Phase 3 objectives: 2013-2015

Collectively Influencing

Building coherence

Mobilising through dialogue

Measurement and Governance

Finance reform

Greening sectors/SMEs

Investing in people

Valuation to action

Green Economy Coalition network

Phase 3

Five Themes of change Three Core Activities

Secretariat and Steering Group

5. Improving governance and measurement • Measure what matters

• Green economy indicators

4. Influencing financial flows • Reform for green economy

investment3. Greening economic sectors

• SMEs for green growth• Energy

2. Investing in people

• Equity in the green economy

• Principles for natural capital valuation

GEC’s FIVE THEMES OF CHANGE & PROJECTS

1. Managing natural systems

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Current context?

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What do people care about?

• Jobs/unemployment?

• Fair wages?

• Decent housing, healthcare, education?

• Economic stability?

• Local community?

• Personal security?

How do these relate to theGreen Economy?

GGGI + Korea dedicated

80% of fiscal stimulus to

green growth projects

South Africa’s ‘green

economy accord’

Mexico’s low carbon

+ green economy

plan

Denmark + others – ‘3GF’

Forum; DANIDA ‘green growth’

Indonesia’s green growth

plan

China earmarked $140bn of

$586bn fiscal stimulus to

green development

EU Vision 2020

strategy

National plans proliferating

Cambodia’s National

Green Growth Roadmap

Ethiopia’s ClimateResilient Green

Economy Strategy

Vietnam 2012 National

Green Growth Strategy

Barbados’ NationalStrategic

Plan 2006–2025

Botswana’s Strategy for

Diversification and

Sustainable Growth

Peru working with GGGI on

National Forest and Wildlife Plan (NFWP)

Germany’s ‘Energiewende’

International institutions taking action

GGGI: ‘global laboratory to support experimentation and collective learning by countries seeking to leapfrog the resource intensive and environmentally unsustainable model of industrial development pioneered by advanced economies in an earlier era’

World Bank: Green growth = how environmental policies can increase conventionally measured GDP through four channels linked to input, efficiency, stimulus and innovation. But ‘the ultimate test of green growth is welfare, not output’.

OECD: Green growth = ‘establish incentives or institutions that increase well-being by: 1. Improving resource management and boosting productivity; 2. Encouraging economic activity where it is of best advantage to society over the long term; 3. Leading to new ways of meeting the above two objectives, i.e. innovation’.

UNEP: Green economy = improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.

PAGE: Will help build the enabling conditions for the green economy in participating countries by shifting investment and policies towards the creation of a new generation of assets, such as clean technologies, resource efficient infrastructure, well-functioning ecosystems, green skilled labour and good governance.

GGKP: “Green growth means fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies.” GGKP identifies and addresses major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice in order to offer practitioners and policymakers the policy guidance, good practices, tools, and data necessary to support the transition to a green economy.

Green Growth and Green Economy

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• Bloomberg LP has committed to achieve a 30% emission efficiency reduction (on 2012 levels) and generate at least 8,000,000 kWh from on-site solar by 2020.

• Deloitte UK has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35% (per full time equivalent) on 2011 levels by fiscal year 2021.

• Microsoft launched its Carbon Neutral programme in fiscal 2013 with the aim of using an internal carbon fee to make its internal operations across data centres, software development labs, offices and air travel carbon neutral.

• UN Global Compact’s 2013 Accenture CEO study found that 84%of CEOs believe that business should lead efforts to define and deliver sustainable development goals.

• IBM’s environmental award program recognising internal environmental attainment; Sony’s ‘Road to Zero’ environmental footprint initiative; ‘Yamaha Forest’ Yamaha’s forests/biodiversity preservation initiatives; HSBC’s Water Programme; and Google’s ‘Google Green’ energy efficiency and renewable energy programme.

Private sector responding

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PwC types

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WWF , IUCN etc

Puma, B&Q, M&S, types

Christian Aid, Oxfam

IIED, Development Alternatives, Vitae Civilis,

CANARI

Trade unions

Greenpeace

etc

World Bank

OECD

Positioning of key institutions

GRI, Nat. Cap. Coalition

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Global macro changes

• The End of Cheap: The declining importance of low cost labour, undervalued resources and eco-

services, and low cost finance, as a driving force of growth and globalization.

• Tech Revolution: Increased robotization of “routinizable” employment, and transfer of previously “safe

haven” untraded services and associated employment opportunities online.

• Inequality Puzzle: Global declines in inequality between countries have been accompanied by rising

social inequality within countries in the developed and developing world.

• Return of the State: The rise of the east has highlighted the potentially key role of the state in

economic and industrial policy, with state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds increasingly

important.

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Green economy challenges

• Political gridlock - green policy

politicised.

• Economic uncertainty fosters short-

termism.

• GE not responding to people’s needs

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Dialogues

Core Activity: Mobilising through dialogue Mobilising and building capacity building through dialogues - linking to UNEP PAGE national activity.

Objectives: • Ensure civil society involvement in national

and regional green economy processes• Share knowledge between different national

experiences and stakeholder groups • Inform international policy targets

Core team: IIED, UNEP, Vitae Civilis, Development Alternatives, Canari, New Economics Foundation, Stakeholder Forum, Africa for a Green Economy, EcoUnion, GEC secretariat.

Funding sources: DFID, UNEP PAGE, Other national governments.

International Hubs for the green economySOUTH AFRICA HUB • Mapping out local ‘new economy’ initiatives• Developing a network • Prompting dialogue

INDIA HUB • Mapping out local ‘new economy’ initiatives• Developing a network • Prompting dialogue

International Hubs for the green economyCARIBBEAN Green Economy Action Learning Group (GE ALG).

Current work includes:• Supporting SMEs to contribute to social equity

and environmental sustainability.

• Renewable energy as a pathway to GE in the Caribbean.

See publication “A New Paradigm for Caribbean Development: Transitioning to a Green Economy” for more details.http://www.canari.org/

Key Contact: Nicole Leotaud, Executive Director, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (nicole@canari.org)

UNEP Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)UNEP Green Economy progress

The UNEP led Green Economy Initiative was launched in 2008, producing the Green Economy report in 2011and operating advisory services in 30+ countries.

By 2014, more than 48 countries have developed national green economy or sustainable development plans.

Adding the countries where UNEP advisory services work along with PAGE priority countries totals close around 65 countries engaged in green economy activities.

UNEP Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)

PAGE Package and Tools

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Knowledge platform and

shared narrative

Core Activity: Building coherence through knowledge platforms

Communications and narrative – Relevance and Evidence.

Objectives: • Expand our knowledge base at the

national and local levels to capture stories, analysis, examples and evidence across our five themes of change

• Support a growing network of green economy practitioners to share their experiences and evidence of different policy measures, encouraging debate and exchange

• Monitor global trends to support knowledge sharing across the different communities

Collaboration opportunity:Help us create a shared green economy story.

GEC Homepage

Interconnected project platforms

GreenEcoNet

Measure what

matters

Pitching to ‘People and Power’Key messages from the session (Please add your thoughts!)

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Improving governance and measurement

Overview:Measure What Matters (MWM) aims to bring greater alignment between corporate, national and global sustainability data frameworks. Using the SDG processes, MWM will influence national ‘beyond GDP’ agendas and corporate sustainability measurement, helping to align markets to societal priorities.

Core team: Melanie Siggs, Jessica Fries, Pietro Bertazzi, Anne Beutling, Charlotte Masiello-Riome, Sarah Nolleth, Chris West, Tom Bigg.

Key Contacts:Chris West (chris.west@york.ac.uk)Melanie Siggs (melanie.siggs@royal.gsx.gov.uk)Emily Benson (emily.benson@greeneconomycoalition.org)

Measure What Matters

Aligning business, national and global data

• Measure what matters (MWM) is pushing businesses, governments and international organisations to start measuring their 'success' beyond profit alone.

• We are aligning corporate sustainability reporting, alternatives to GDP and global SDGs so that these performance metrics overlap and can compliment each others’ measures of success.

In June 2014, MWM petitioned the UN Presidents of the General Assembly to establish a mechanism to discuss and agree a coherent measurement framework for the Post-2015 Development Agenda which accounts for the need for greater alignment between success metrics at different levels.

Measure What Matters

Measure What Matters

Alignment: A water exampleAligning water sustainability frameworks

The GEC has contributed to the recently published water focused paper ‘Water: Accounting for Shared Priorities’ which investigates alignment between current water reporting frameworks at corporate, national and global levels.

The paper finds minimal alignment amongst sustainability frameworks in key areas and on interpretations of success. MWM argues for a greater overlap between different indicator sets and performance metrics so that stakeholders and governments can better manage shared assets, risks and responsibilities.

Opportunity:Join the MWM consultation or be one of our experts.http://measurewhatmatters.info/

Overview:NETGREEN is building a database to help identify and understand the indicators most suited to measuring progress towards the green economy. It aims to create user-friendly platform which highlights the most appropriate green metrics for any purpose, and to bring together both researchers and decision makers through workshops and events.

Core team: Lucas Porsch, Karen Jeffrey.

Key Contact:Lucas Porsch (lucas.porsch@ecologic.eu)

NETGREEN

NETGREENNetwork for Green Economy Indicators

NETGREEN has helped focus discussion and research on green economy metrics by developing an overview of the existing efforts to measure the transformation toward a green economy.

The platform being developed will be able to analyse this inventory of tools and indicators and recommend the most appropriate green measurement indicators for any query.

Opportunity:Be a content expert, user group member or attend NETGREEN workshops.

http://netgreen-project.eu/

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Influencing financial flows

OverviewUNEP, a founding GEC partner, has launched its finance inquiry with the aim of “catalysing actions to enable the financial system to support the transition to inclusive green economies”. GEC is currently determining its supporting intervention based on 8 prospective proposals.

Civil society leaders: James Leaton, Fran Boait, Sue Charman, Chris Hewett, Jennifer Morgan, Holger Schmid, Raj Thamotheram, Catherine Howarth, Maya Forstater, Richard Spencer, Hans-Peter Egler, Tony Greenham, Greg Ford.

Key Contact:Oliver Greenfield (oliver.greenfield@greeneconomycoalition.org)

Finance for green economy investment

Collaborate for change

Green economy needs finance

The GEC enables civil society to develop transformative policy, to collaborate for change and through collective influence, gain better access to policy makers.

Finance is one area where the GEC recognises the need for civil society intervention and collaboration to deliver the economies we want.

UNEP has recently launched its Inquiry into a Sustainable Financial System and, as a founding member of the GEC, is looking for the GEC’s collective input on sustainable finance.

A Sustainable Financial System - UNEPPolicy Innovations for a Green Economy

UNEP’s inquiry is being led by Dr. Simon Zadek, Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management and Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, Nick Robins, Head of HSBC’s Climate Change Centre of Excellence, and Mahenau Agha, UNEP Advisor.

They are being supported by an advisory council of key leaders drawn from the worlds of finance regulation, banking, investment and academia (right) who will help to guide the inquiry’s research.

Opportunity:Get in contact and help contribute to the UNEP inquiry through the GEC.

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Reforming finance to invest in green economy

Prospective GEC finance projects

The GEC network offers a platform for eight civil society finance reform ideas to be considered by both the UNEP Finance Inquiry and by our broader coalition for support.

In considering these reform projects we will be examining: 1. If there are collaboration opportunities between

the projects.2. If the projects align with the UNEP finance

inquiry’s insights and conclusions.3. If the projects connect well with a green

economy political narrative.4. If the projects offer collaborative opportunities to

the broader GEC coalition.

A Sustainable Financial System - UNEPThe 8 reform projects and their champions are:

1. Raj Thamotheram - Harnessing the power of sell-side research to promote long-term behaviours by asset managers and corporations.

2. James Leaton - Increasing the cost of capital for fossil fuels.

3. Jen Morgan - Transforming Finance Collaborative Network.

4. Catherine Howarth - Empowering pension savers to unlock sustainable investment.

5. Fran Boait - Activating an International Debate on Monetary Policy.

6. Hans-Peter Egler - Sustainable Infrastructure as an Asset Class.

7. Susan Brown - Integrating Environmental Risk into the Bond Market.

8. Tony Greenham – Monetary Policy and Sustainability.

Perennial Research Trust

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Greening sectors: SMEs

GreenEcoNet for SMEsObjectives:Develop an exchange network of best practices aimed at private enterprises, the academic research institutions, business networks and the wider business community, with a special focus on SMEs.

Core team: Emily Benson, Corrado Topi, Helen Marquard

Key Contact:Corrado Topi (corrado.topi@york.ac.uk)

GreenEcoNet

The GEC’s work on greening the SME (small and medium enterprise) sector has focused on partnering with a consortium of six European organisations with European Commission funding to launch a Europe-wide platform to help SMEs share green best practice.

Connecting SMEs for the green economy

The project’s four main goals are to:1. Map the green economy by developing a taxonomy of all the actors, practices

and initiatives which constitute a green economy. 2. Develop the taxonomy into a web platform that will allow users to share

experience and expertise, as well as search green case studies and tools. 3. Stimulate debate and engagement by hosting thematic workshops,

meetings and online forums bringing together SMEs, policy-makers and researchers.

4. Develop guidance and tools to ensure policy and practical support for SMEs so they can be at the fore front of bringing the green economy.

WP2 Platform launch

The GreenEcoNet website officially launched on the 25 June 2014 and operates as a platform where SMEs can access key sustainability tools, green solutions, case studies and share experiences of moving to greener business models.

• Many business sustainability programs, are not designed for small organisations like SMEs. Small businesses need green solutions tailored to their size and sector, and consequently do best when they learn about sustainability solutions from their peers.

• GreenEcoNet’s library of case studies allows SMEs to find businesses similar to their own and learn about green best practice.

• They can also submit their own sustainability successes to gain free exposure for their business or projects, all while encouraging other SMEs go green.

GreenEcoNet

Going global?The challenge for GreenEcoNet has been getting in contact with SMEs and encouraging them to share their green business successes.

This is hard enough at a European level, where SMEs face broadly similar regulations, economic circumstances and often share a common language.

For the next step of taking the network global we will need to develop new strategies and a more streamlined platform to handle a wider range of SMEs and users.

Opportunity:Help GreenEcoNet go global by becoming an expert, signing up your small business, or sharing your green product or business idea.

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Greening sectors: Energy

Energy policy

Overview:Energy is at the core of green economy and the GEC is developing a new energy policy approach in readiness for engagement with the Paris, 2015 UN climate negotiations. The emerging project is based around the UN Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) program and will focus on linking action on energy access and renewables with national level green economy initiatives.

Core team: Sarah Wykes, Ben Garside, Aaron Leopold, Margreet Van Doodewaard.

Key Contact: Oliver Greenfield (oliver.greenfield@greeneconomycoalition.org)

GEC energy policy prioritiesEnergy in the post-2015 development framework

The GEC’s future energy policy will be based on achieving three key strategic goals:

• Positioning the GEC on energy for the UN CCC climate negotiations in Paris, 2015 (COP 21/CMP 11).

• Allowing further GEC partner collaboration in support of international/regional/national/local energy initiatives and international policy frameworks e.g. EU Energy Roadmap 2050.

• Beginning GEC engagement with the UN Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) program, the most promising international energy initiative aligned with the GEC’s long term goals.

Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)What is SE4ALL?

The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative was launched by the UN in 2012 with the aim of helping to guarantee clean energy access. It is convened by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and supported by private sector, governmental and civil society groups committed to “mobilise global action from all sectors to transform the world’s energy systems, pursue the elimination of energy poverty, and enhance prosperity”.

Its three key objectives are to:• Ensure universal access to modern energy

services

• Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

• Double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

GEC’s contribution to SE4ALL

GEC partners including IIED, CAFOD and Hivos are already engaged with the SE4ALL programme and have proposed adjustments to the current framework of goals and targets.

The GEC is convinced that the green economy will need renewable energy, renewable energy needs strong policy backing, and effective energy policy will need a solid carbon price. Successful positioning for Paris, 2015 is the best way to push this agenda forward.

Opportunity:A movement is emerging and the GEC could join with these organisations to call together for a stronger SE4ALL, national effective implementation plans and a robust climate deal. The key question: Should we back it?

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Investing in

people

Overview: For the GEC, equity is the heartland of green economy.

GEC want to empower the excluded to have a stake in the new economy and ensure that it is fairer than its predecessor. To achieve this the GEC will publish papers on how to measure equity effectively and on how to incorporate equity policies in national green economy planning.

Core team:Zeenat Niazi, Sarah Wykes, Dorit Kemter , Steve Bass, George Varughese, Kate Raworth, Mandira Singh Thakur.

Key Contact: Tighe Geoghegen (tigheg@gmail.com)

Equity in the green economy

Equity in the green economyWhy is equity important?

Equity is back on the global agenda, with President Obama calling the US’ growing income gap and decreasing economic mobility the “defining challenge of our time”.

Obama went on to quote a line from Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium," asking, "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"

The GEC believes improving the lives of all is at the heart of the green economy opportunity. That is why we champion equity in the green economy.

Securing social justice in the green economyReconciling greenness and fairness

Policies aimed at stimulating green growth or the green economy are sometimes accused of ignoring issues of social justice, equity and inclusivity. Two of the GEC members, IIED and CAFOD, have produced guidelines for ensuring green policies are genuinely beneficial to those in poverty and recognise the unique social circumstances of the communities they are aimed at.

Poverty reduction and environmental sustainability inevitably need to go hand in hand, but though these programmes are often mutually reinforcing, they do conflict when it comes to realising some aspects of the green economy. Good policy design and implementation can help recognise where these competing goals are aligned and opposed, ultimately helping to reconcile effective action on both poverty and the environment.

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Managing natural systems

Much work underway at the interface of economy and ecology

Certification

Payment for Ecosystem services9 Planetary Boundaries

Because:• It helps economic power understand the importance of nature• It is one of the most controversial components of green

economy• It is emerging in national and corporate accounts

• We need to be involved to ensure it is done in an inclusive, scientific and transparent way – reflecting the interests of all stakeholders AND …that it leads to practical outcomes that safeguard natural systems

GEC decided natural capital valuation is the priority for our collective attention

We are internalising

negative externalities

You’re commoditising nature

Principles for Natural Capital Valuation

Objectives:• Create an inclusive dialogue and consultation on valuation and

payments for ecosystem services. • Use dialogue outcome to draft a charter of natural capital

principles which can help to guide corporate and national valuation processes.

• Sign off on principles by members/affiliates at the IUCN conservation council.

Potential Partners: IUCN, WWF, SWT

Establishing the rules for valuation

Overview:An emerging GEC collaboration involves the creation of a draft charter of principles for natural capital based on an inclusive dialogue between the opponents and supporters of valuation methodologies. If a charter can be drawn up, and safeguards agreed, this could then help guide the development of both national and corporate valuation practices.

Principles for Natural Capital ValuationEstablishing the rules for valuation

Opportunities:• Be part of the core team• Help define the principles• Help with the consultation and dialogues• Join the advocacy activities• Sign up your organisation to the Principles.

Core team:Jo Pike, Karen Ellis, Kookie Habtegaber, Gerard Bos, Pieter van der Gaag

Key Contacts: Oliver Greenfield (oliver.greenfield@greeneconomycoalition.org)