From national studies to international policy making

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From national studies to international policy
making

• Rutu Dave
• Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency/RIVM

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What does this mean?

• Engagement with new actors ( private sector,
  banks, development planners and NGOs) to develop
  alternative policies
• Country results as a basis for exploring how
  international stakeholders can support
  implementing integrated SD and CC policies
• International dialogues often not based on
  analysis in developing countries
• Making development more sustainable as the
  approach to climate change

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International processes

• Mainstream climate concerns in development agenda
• Have the climate agenda looked at through other
  lenses than those provided by the UNFCCC

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International development agenda

• Millennium Development Goals evaluation
• Post-WSSD process (CSD)
• WTO/ Doha round
• Development lending (WB, Reg Dev Banks, IMF) and
  PRSPs
• Bilateral Development Assistance

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Three workshops

• Workshop 1 Finance
• Workshop 2 Development
• Workshop 3 Climate policies
• Regional focus
• South-South-North learning
• Further link to ongoing international processes

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Achievement of New Delhi Workshop

• Portrayed positive aspects of development
  climate interaction
• New ideas on financing climate friendly
  development pathways
• Highlighted work being done on this area through
• macro and micro perspectives
• public and private perspectives
• Identified possibilities for (inter)national
  policy that help financing integrated DC
  strategies

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Outreach

• Feed back to Energy for Development conference
  Netherlands
• Feed back to country studies
• Feed into international discussions (PEP, ESSD)
• Two more workshops

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Second Workshop

• Workshop 1 Finance
• Workshop 2 Development
• Concept from 1st Workshop Kept
• Regional focus
• South-South-North learning
• Further link to ongoing international processes
• Funding MNP-RIVM from VROM

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Ideas for 2nd Workshop

• Focus Regional Development
• Rationale
• Combine energy food security
• Link with poverty eradication
• African priorities

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Goals

• 1. Elaborate integrated development climate
  strategies from a rural perspective
• 2. Achieve insight in possible policy options
  that help to realise national policy objectives
  and international commitments on rural
  development climate issues
• 3.Identify possibilities for international
  development cooperation that help to integrate
  development climate

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Specific Discussion Points

• Contributions from countries
• Input Paper
• Participants
• Agenda Items
• SBSTA Meeting