Progress report for
Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE)
Achievement at a glance
- The year started with the Third PAGE Ministerial Conference, held in Cape Town in January 2019, gathering over 500 innovators and leaders from 50 countries for a unique global forum on green economy.<br>
<br>- The third Global Academy on Green Economy in October 2019 provided a forum to deepen knowledge and initiate South-South Collaboration to 100 participants from 34 countries.
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<br>- With PAGE support, new national and cross-sectoral plans integrating green economy objectives were launched in 2019, among others, in Uruguay, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Kyrgyz Republic.
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<br>- At the sectoral level, several new policies, strategies and action plans were adopted, e.g. on renewable energy in the State of Mato Grosso, on green industry in Burkina Faso, circular economy in Uruguay, and sustainable public procurement and construction in Mongolia.
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<br>- PAGE reached its target of 20 partner countries, with Thailand and Morocco joining the partnership in 2019.
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<br>- The first countries to join PAGE in 2013 and 2014 have developed their sustainability strategies to keep the momentum for transformative change as programme support phases out.
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<br>- Over 6000 individuals to date have been trained through an array of PAGE global, national and sub-national level trainings, while national universities and civil servant colleges continue to embed green economy into their curricula.
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<br>- 2019 saw the launch of the GGKP Green Industry and Green Finance Platforms and a new E-learning Course on Sustainable Finance, all innovative global tools to support policymaking.
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<br>- The PAGE 2030 Strategy was agreed among funding partners and agencies, leading the partnership into the next decade. Contributions to PAGE increased to USD 76 million in 2019.
Next Steps
Between 2021 and 2030, PAGE will deepen its engagement with current partner countries, assist new countries in integrated economic policy development and national planning, and widen its alliance with other institutions, initiatives and programmes, including from the private sector and civil society, with special attention to youth and gender movements. The objective is to catalyze and strengthen a fair and green economic transformation. These activities will add to the momentum for a sustainability revolution and create an enabling environment to achieve goals and targets of global sustainability agreements, especially the 2030 Agenda, Paris Agreement and Post-2020 Biodiversity framework.<br>
<br>PAGE will also widen its alliance with other institutions, initiatives and programmes, including regional actors, the private sector, civil society, and youth and gender movements. To bring the impact to a global scale, PAGE will support South–South and Triangular cooperation, create a Green Economy Challenge Fund, provide global capacity-building services, contribute to global agenda-setting on greening of economies, and raise public awareness.
Beneficiaries
PAGE Partner Countries: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil (Mato Grosso State), Burkina Faso, China (Jiangsu Province), Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Peru, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay.