Held from 23 to 24 February 2015, the Conference will bring together policymakers, civil society, academia and the private sector to discuss cross-fertilization of ideas, experiences and institutional innovations to transition to a green economy at the national and regional levels and how these efforts can help in implementing the SAMOA Pathway.
The Green Economy Conference 2015 is being hosted by the Government of Jamaica, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme and with the financial support of the European Union. The Conference is part of the project “Advancing Caribbean States’ Sustainable Development through Green Economy”. More details about the project are available here.
In the Caribbean region, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia, among others, have shown a renewed commitment to creating and investing in greening of economy and have already initiated activities to advance this transition. The Caribbean Green Economy Conference 2015 will be a post-SAMOA event where Caribbean countries will be able to share their inspiring institutional, investment and policy innovations, as well as the challenges that they face, in the transition towards greener and more inclusive economies.
Key Issues/Theme
The following issues will be covered in the conference:
- Impacts of policies and initiatives that Caribbean countries have taken for achieving their development goals through green economy
- Macroeconomic and fiscal policy measure
- Sectoral policies and projects
- Business sector initiatives
- Public and private Investment
- How tcreate enabling conditions for scaling up green economy measure
- Finance and investment
- Development, access and transfer of clean technology
- Tariffs and trade policy
- Taxation, incentives and fiscal reform
- Standards and regulations
- Governance and political commitment
- Implementing SAMOA Pathway through Green Economy
- Capacity building for Green Economy
- Mobilizing investments and bilateral aid
- Developing enabling policies
- Demonstration projects
- Platform for SIDS-SIDS cooperation on Green Economy
You can find out more about this event here.