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Webinar 2: Synergies for Just Transitions and Economic Recovery

Thu 11 Jun 2020, 10.00 am

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Background

Background

Webinar 2 will focus on the trends and thematic opportunities that countries can tap to realize “quick wins” and lay the ground for long term climate & SDG co-benefits. Using examples, speakers will suggest the policies, stimulus & financing measures needed to enable a better & faster recovery to Covid-19, by accelerating just transitions to sustainable development that leave no one behind.

How can stimulus & recovery measures be designed to improve lives now; and maximize climate & SDG co-benefits over a longer term?
What measures hold the most potential for impact?
What emerging shifts in human behavior, markets and finance offer opportunities?
What is being done to enable green, inclusive recovery in low-income countries? What action is needed? How can Paris Agreement and SDG processes be leveraged?

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Programme & Speakers

Introduction

David Koranyi, UN DESA
Livia Hollins, UNFCCC 2. Panel: Levers of Economic Recovery and a Just Transition to Sustainable Development

Panel moderated by Leena Srivastava, Deputy Director General for Science, IIASA

Rabia Ferroukhi, IRENA Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Presentation
IRENA’s Call for a Green Recovery Based on Renewables and assessment of the falling costs of renewables
Yvon Slingenberg, Director of the European Commission’s Department for Climate
Highlighted climate and SDG synergies in the European Green Deal
Jesus Felipe, Asian Development Bank, Senior Economic Advisor Moustapha
Spoke to the ADB Covid-19 Policy Database a collection of key measures underway to combat COVID-19, classified by how they work through the financial system and affect the financing of different sectors.
Kamal Gueye, ILO Coordinator of the Green Jobs Programme Presentation
For more on the ILO Green Jobs Programme, visit
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP Director of Global Environmental Finance Presentation
For more, see UNDP’s 2019 publication Pathways for Increasing Nature-Based Solutions in NDCs
Janene Natasha Yazzie, International Indian Treaty Council, UN MGoS
David Waskow, WRI Director of International Climate Action
Offered guidance drawing on WRI’s resources on Building Back Better
Enhancing NDCs: A Guide to Strengthening National Climate Plans
Sheila Oparaocha, ENERGIA Presentation
Find the 2020 SDG 7 Policy Briefs at the SDG7 TAG website
Maaike de Langen, Pathfinders for Justice, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Spoke to legal empowerment as vital for Just Transitions, drawing on publication: Justice for All and the Public Health Emergency

Closing summary

Biographies

Mr. David Koranyi

Mr. David Koranyi

Consultant for Energy Policy Analysis, Sustainable Energy Team, Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)

Mr. David Koranyi

Consultant for Energy Policy Analysis, Sustainable Energy Team, Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)

Mr. David Koranyi

Ms. Livia Hollins

Ms. Livia Hollins

Agriculture, Adaptation, SDGs and Interagency Relations, UNFCCC

Ms. Livia Hollins

Agriculture, Adaptation, SDGs and Interagency Relations, UNFCCC

Ms. Livia Hollins

Ms. Sheila Oparaocha

Ms. Sheila Oparaocha

Executive Director, ENERGIA (international network on gender and sustainable energy)

Ms. Sheila Oparaocha

Executive Director, ENERGIA (international network on gender and sustainable energy)

Ms. Sheila Oparaocha

Sheila Oparaocha has twenty one years of working experience in the gender and energy sector, a Bachelor’s Degree in Veterinary Medicine and a Master’s Degree in Gender and Development Planning. Sheila is the International Coordinator and Programme Manager of the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. ENERGIA is an International Network of like-minded organisations and professionals that was established in 1996 to create an institutional base for galvanising action aimed at integrating gender into the energy access agenda of developing countries. Currently, ENERGIA has a programme of work with 31 partner organizations in 18 countries in Africa and Asia. Sheila has the overall and primary responsibility for managing ENERGIA’s international programmes, planning, monitoring, reporting and liaising with ENERGIA’s donors. Sheila also provides technical support to ENERGIA’s activities on women entrepreneurship development, gender mainstreaming in energy programmes, international policy advocacy, research and evidence development, network building and knowledge management. Sheila is the co-chair of the Technical Advisory Group for the Sustainable Development Goal 7 and a member of the Health and Energy Platform for Action.

Ms. Rabia Ferroukhi

Ms. Rabia Ferroukhi

Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Ms. Rabia Ferroukhi

Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Ms. Rabia Ferroukhi

As Director of the Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre (KPFC), Ms. Rabia Ferroukhi oversees the Agency's work on a range of renewable energy policy issues including design, socio-economic benefits and integrated resource management. She joined IRENA in 2011 and has over 20 years of experience in the fields of energy, development and environment. She has worked in both public and private sectors, including governmental institutions in the Middle East and North Africa, energy companies in the Mediterranean region and the GCC, and international institutions.

Mr. Jesus Felipe

Mr. Jesus Felipe

Asian Development Bank, Senior Economic Advisor

Mr. Jesus Felipe

Asian Development Bank, Senior Economic Advisor

Mr. Jesus Felipe

I am Advisor to the Chief Economist, in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines, where I have worked since 1996. My main functions are to advise ADB’s Chief Economist on development issues at large and, specifically, on their implications for both ADB’s operations and for policy dialogue with the Bank’s developing member countries; and to lead the work program on “Asia’s Economic Transformation”. I have travelled extensively throughout Asia and participated in many policy discussions with Governments and provided advice on the design of development plans.

Mr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye

Mr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye

Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, Enterprises Department, International Labour Organization

Mr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye

Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, Enterprises Department, International Labour Organization

Mr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye

Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

UNDP Director of Global Environmental Finance

Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

UNDP Director of Global Environmental Finance

Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

Dr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya is the global lead of UNDP’s assistance to developing countries to access finance from vertical funds for actions on adaptation to climate change impacts and risks. He and his team oversee a portfolio valued at more than $1.4 billion of grant financing, active in more than 95 countries. Recently, Dr. Kurukulasuriya spearheaded UNDP’s assistance to countries to engage with the Green Climate Fund, securing more than $0.5 billion of grant financing for climate action on reducing impacts of droughts, floods, sea-level rise and extreme events on key economic sectors such as agriculture, water resources and infrastructure

Mr. David Waskow

Mr. David Waskow

WRI Director of International Climate Action

Mr. David Waskow

WRI Director of International Climate Action

Mr. David Waskow

David Waskow is the Director of WRI’s International Climate Initiative. The Initiative is focused on international cooperation that catalyzes and supports action on climate change at the national level in developed and developing countries. The initiative includes work on the elements of a 2015 international climate agreement and the Climate Justice Dialogue, addressing issues of climate impacts and equity.

David has worked for many years at the intersection of environmental and development issues. Prior to WRI, David directed climate change policy at the development organization Oxfam America, where much of his work focused on the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. While at Oxfam, he addressed a wide range of climate finance issues, including increasing financial resources, the development of effective, responsive finance institutions, and the participation of local communities in directing the use of finance on the ground. At Oxfam, he also directed policy work on climate adaptation and resilience strategies, including food security and agriculture issues and the role of the private sector in climate resilience.

Prior to joining Oxfam, Waskow served as the international program director for Friends of the Earth, where his role included overseeing the organization's work on the environmental dimensions of trade policy and international financial institutions. In addition to his international experience, he has worked on domestic issues ranging from low-income housing to garment industry labor conditions.

He has testified before Congress on responses to climate change and on trade issues, and he is frequently a go-to source on climate change financing for the media, from The Washington Post to The New York Times.

He has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; his undergraduate degree is from Brown University.

Janene Natasha Yazzie

Janene Natasha Yazzie

International Indian Treaty Council, UN MGoS

Janene Natasha Yazzie

International Indian Treaty Council, UN MGoS

Janene Natasha Yazzie

Ms. Maaike de Langen

Ms. Maaike de Langen

Pathfinders for Justice, NYU Center on International Cooperation

Ms. Maaike de Langen

Pathfinders for Justice, NYU Center on International Cooperation

Ms. Maaike de Langen

Maaike de Langen is currently Head of Research for the Task Force on Justice, which is part of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies project at New York University's Center on International Cooperation. She has over fifteen years of experience leading national and international programs and teams in the areas of Governance, Rule of Law and Legal Empowerment. She has worked in the Netherlands, Mali, Chad and New York.

Maaike started her career as a researcher and project manager with the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development (Leiden University), where she worked on a legal cooperation project between the Netherlands and Mali and did socio-legal research in the North of Mali on local courts and on the effects of decentralization on land governance.

She joined the United Nations Development Program as program officer for governance and human rights in the Chad Country Office and later became business analyst in New York. As policy specialist on Legal Empowerment of the Poor for UNDP in New York, she was involved in drafting the Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and created UNDP's first global project on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

Maaike then returned to The Hague and became first advisor to the National ombudsman of the Netherlands. She led and shaped the Department for Strategy and Policy to significantly enhance the strategic capacity of the National ombudsman institute.

She returned to Mali in 2014, where she designed the Dutch bilateral program on Security and Rule of Law in Mali for the period 2014-2018. Major components of this program were support to the successful community paralegal program of Malian NGO Deme So and bringing together actors from the criminal justice chain in the post-conflict setting of Northern Mali to enhance cooperation at the local level.

She currently lives in New York city with her husband and two daughters.

Ms. Yvon Slingenberg

Ms. Yvon Slingenberg

Director of the European Commission’s Department for Climate

Ms. Yvon Slingenberg

Director of the European Commission’s Department for Climate

Ms. Yvon Slingenberg

Ms Yvon Slingenberg is Director in DG Climate Action of the European Commission, responsible for International climate negotiations and mainstreaming of climate issues in EU policies.

During the first two years of the Juncker Commission, she was Senior Adviser in the Cabinet of Commissioner Arias Cañete for Climate Action and Energy, where she was in charge of issues related to the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), Effort Sharing and land-use, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

Until November 2014 she was Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Climate Action of the European Commission in charge of the “Implementation of the EU ETS". The ETS is a market based instrument and key tool of EU Climate Policy to drive emission reductions in the most cost-efficient manner. In that capacity, Yvon was in charge of ETS reform, including the Market Stability Reserve, and the role of the ETS in the 2030 climate and energy policy framework. Previously, she was closely involved in the negotiations on the 2020 climate & energy package, and steered the adoption of numerous implementing measures necessary to enable the harmonised approach for phase 3 (2013-2020) of the revised ETS.

From 2003 to 2007 Yvon was in charge of the chemicals policy unit and negotiated the new chemicals legislation (REACH). She has also worked in the Cabinet of Commissioner Wallström on environment and climate issues (2002-2003), for the European Commission's Task-force for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 (Johannesburg), for 4 years (1998-2002) in the international climate negotiations and 5 years in the “Waste Management Policy” Unit.

Yvon is a lawyer of Dutch nationality with a degree in international law (specialisation in environmental law) from the University of Amsterdam. She speaks Dutch (mother tongue), English, French, German and Spanish.

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