The World Green Economy Summit is an initiative by the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority and is held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice President Prime Minister of UAE and The Ruler of Dubai and the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, in cooperation with the Dubai Green Economy Partnership and WETEX.

This year’s conference to be held in Paris, France from 1-3 July 2015, will focus on Tax and the Environment, an issue of growing importance and one which we anticipate will be both relevant and timely in the lead up to the COP21 meeting in November 2015.

Environmental policy objectives, including reduction of the expected costs of climate change, curbing health damage from pollution, and improving the quality of the environment, rank high on policy agendas.  Taxes are one among several policy instruments to help attain these objectives.

The year 2015 is significant because the UN General Assembly (UNGA) is expected to arrive at a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the global community as a whole. Further, the 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in France at the end of 2015, and is expected to bring about a global agreement on climate change.

Climate change will have direct and immediate impacts on the poor and will make poverty reduction more difficult. Climate policies can benefit the poor by taking poverty and social concerns into account in their design.

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 proposed webinar intends to present various green building features for their adoption and replication in affordable housing projects in India. It also highlights the need of designing Climate Resilient Low Cost homes which integrate building features that are climate resilient, and will have the ability to provide thermal comfort without much dependence on electricity.