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The green economy within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication is one of the themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), to be held in Brazil in 2012.
UNCTAD, serving as the sustainable trade focal point for the Rio+20 Conference, is convening this meeting to address the trade and sustainable development implications of the green economy, in particular, the concerns related to new forms of green protectionism and aid conditionality.
It will also identify key conditions for a green economy to become a vehicle for sustainable development and areas where international action could promote an inclusive, broad-based and fair transition towards a green economy.
At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, UNCTAD played an active role in drafting and facilitating negotiations on Chapter 2 of Agenda 21, a comprehensive global plan of action for sustainable development. In summary, Chapter 2 proposes that trade, environment and development policies should be mutually supportive. In the face of current pressing needs in addressing poverty reduction, human development and climate change, it is necessary to provide new impetus to the concept of inclusive sustainable development, while enhancing the sense of ownership by developed and developing countries and the role of multilateral cooperative action.
The green economy has emerged as a new paradigm and an enabling component of sustainable development. In that sense, it may have the potential to provide new trade and investment impetus to developing country economies, especially if anchored on a mutually supportive approach to sustainable development.
The Ad hoc Expert Meeting is being organized in close collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
It aims to explore ways in which the green economy, through trade-led growth, could become a pro-development income-generating instrument that will directly contribute to meeting the sustainable development imperative, universally adopted at the 1992 Rio Summit.
The outcome of the meeting will be submitted as a substantive input to UNCTAD-XIII and the Rio+20 preparatory process.
Inputs from experts Experts are encouraged to submit brief papers dealing with one or several of the following issues relating to their country´s experience in transitioning towards a greener and low-carbon economy. These papers will be made available to the meeting in the form and the language in which they are received. Experts are kindly requested to submit their papers by 21 October to lucas.assuncao@unctad.org. |
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