This report summarises the outcomes of the joint AfDB-OECD workshop, titled Enabling Green Growth in Africa, hosted by the Government of Zambia in Lusaka on January 15-16, 2013 and another two-day workshop on Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Green Economy that follows, organised by the OECD DAC SEA Task Team. The objective of the workshops was to facilitate an exchange of perspectives between regional member countries (RMCs) and development partners; and to explore the rationale and enabling environment for green growth in Africa through, notably, the sharing of country experiences. The report highlights how the outcomes of the two workshops will inform current and future green growth work in both organisations.
Placing Indonesia’s economy onto a green and sustainable development pathway, as envisaged in the National Long Term Development Plan, will require a large mobilization of investment.
This paper aims to present a snapshot of some of the best practices in the promotion and use of renewable energy and provide practical examples of the development of renewable energy markets that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can replicate.
Today’s financial system is in many ways too large, too complex, and too removed from the real economy.
The cost of existing environment-friendly technologies, such as wind turbines and SO2 scrubbers, needs to be brought down so that they can be deployed on a large scale, while fundamental research needs to advance on the frontiers of technologies such as smart grids or energy storage.