This policymakers' summary of the report, Low Carbon Development Report: A paradigm shift towards a green economy in Indonesia, identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while simultaneously helping Indonesia achieve its climate objectives, and preserve and improve the country’s natural resources.
This report identifies development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets while simultaneously helping Indonesia to achieve its climate objectives and to preserve and improve the country’s natural resources. It finds that a low carbon growth path can deliver an average GDP growth rate of 6 percent annually until 2045 and that, when combined with the sustainable utilisation of its natural resources, Indonesia can reduce its GHG emissions by nearly 43 percent by 2030.
On 28 March 2019 (12:00 - 13:15 PM UTC+7:00), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is hosting Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2019 - Promoting Enabling Environment for Inclusiveness by Localizing SDGs in Bangkok, Thailand.
On 25th March 2019 (10:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is hosting a meeting: Feeding a Thirsty World: Harnessing the Connections Between Food and Water Security in Washington DC, United States.
On 29th March 2019 (10:00 am - 16:00 pm AEDT), the UNSW Faculty of Built Environment is hosting a workshop: Australia - India knowledge Exchange Workshop on “Smart Energy Management” in Sydney, Australia.
On 27th March 2019 (09:30 - 14:30 IST), the CEEW and IISD are organizing Workshop: Role of Government Support and Market-Based Financing in India's Clean Energy Transition in New Delhi, India.
On 1-4 April 2019, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is hosting the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation on Climate Change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Greening Governance Seminar Series: Building resilience and greening Africa through entrepreneurship
On 20 March 2019 (12:30 - 2:00 PM EDT), World Resources Institute (WRI) is hosting "Greening Governance Seminar Series: Building resilience and greening Africa through entrepreneurship" in Washington, D.C., USA.
On 20 March 2019 (5:30 - 7:00 PM PDT), Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI) and UBC Sauder School of Business’s Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing are hosting Succeeding in the Green Economy: West Coast Edition in Vancouver, Canada.
On 29-30 October 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is hosting its 6th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment in Paris, France.