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2nd Global Forum on Green Economy Learning: "Green Economy: New Challenges, New Skills"

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26 November 2018 to 27 November 2018

Location:

OECD Conference Center, Paris, France

On 26-27 November 2018, the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Environment for Development (EfD) and the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) held the 2nd Global Forum on Green Economy Learning on the theme of "Green Economy: New Challenges, New Skills" at the OECD Conference Center in Paris, France.

The Forum focused on the issue of learning and skills development for current and future decision-makers, technical staff in Ministries, and others involved in policy design and implementation. The overall goal was to scale-up knowledge and skills development for devising green economy solutions that are inclusive and address concerns related to economic competitiveness and employment.

The Green Economy Learning Forum aimed to:

Discuss how to identify critical knowledge and skills gaps of policy professionals
Identify examples of effective learning actions in support of an inclusive green transition
Identify and measure the results and impacts of effective skills development
Engage learning institutions such as public administration schools in delivering green economy learning actions
Initiate South-South-North partnerships to exchange information and experience on green economy learning

The Green Economy Learning Forum was held in conjunction with the Sixth GGKP Annual Conference and the 2018 OECD Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum. Together, the three events were aiming to address the political economy of green and low-carbon policy reforms, identify their distributional impacts, and explore inclusive solutions for households, workers, sectors and regions to help them contribute to a greener future.

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Program

Day 1 – 26 November 2018

9:00 am Registration

9:30 am Welcome and introduction

10:15 am Session 1: What’s the issue? Identifying critical knowledge and skills gaps for designing inclusive green economy policies

Expected results of session 1:

Common understanding of critical competencies needed for designing socially inclusive green economy policies;
Identification of major capacity gaps public administrations are facing and shortcomings of current training approaches;
Identification of challenges faced by education and training institutions in delivering effective training for green economy policy-making;
Overview of existing methodologies to systematically assess learning needs, and suggestions for further experience-sharing in this area.

13:00 pm Lunch break

14:30 pm Session 2: What solutions can work? Effective learning action for promoting a just transition

Expected results of session 2:

Recommendations for enhancing the scale and effectiveness of training (and other learning action) on green economy policy tools;
Lessons learned from integrating green economy concepts and tools within existing training programmes;
Good practices in monitoring the impact and sustainability of learning action.

16:30 pm Fair to share information about existing initiatives among participants

17:30 pm Review of Day 1

18:00 pm End of Day 1

Social event in the evening

Day 2 – 27 November 2018

9:00 Summary of Day 1 and introduction to Day 2

9:15 Session 3: How can we join forces? Fostering long-term partnerships for green economy learning

Expected results of session 3:

Agreement on main benefits of partnerships for green economy learning and type of institutions involved;
Identification of challenges in setting up and sustaining institutional partnerships;
Definition of action items to foster partnerships for green economy learning, building on existing networks and initiatives.

12:30 Wrap-up

Summary of follow-up actions
Outlook GGSD Forum and closing remarks

13:00 Closure of the Forum

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Initiatives:

Green Learning Network

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