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DRAFT ANNOTATED AGENDA OF THE REGIONAL EXPERT MEETINGON MEASURING PROGRESS TOWARDS GREEN GROWTH INTHE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND CENTRAL ASIACOUNTRIES

5-6 March 2013,

Prague, the Czech Republic

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English - Or. English ENVIRONMENT DIRECTORATE ENVIRONMENT POLICY COMMITTEE TASK FORCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PROGRAMME FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

DRAFT ANNOTATED AGENDA OF THE REGIONAL EXPERT MEETING ON MEASURING PROGRESS TOWARDS GREEN GROWTH IN THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND CENTRAL ASIA COUNTRIES

5-6 March 2013, Prague, the Czech Republic

Agenda item: 1. This regional meeting will review the existing experience of using green growth indicators in a national context, and discuss how such indicators could be adapted to the specifics of the Eastern Partnership countries and Central Asia. It will bring together experts from the ministries of environment and economy, as well as statistics agencies. Other invitees include representatives of the NGO community and key international partners. ACTION REQUIRED: For discussion and adoption.

For additional information, please contact: Ms. Angela Bularga, Environmental Performance Information Division, Environment Directorate, tel: +33 1 45 24 98 63, fax: + 33 1 44 30 61 83, e-mail: [email protected]

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OUTLINE OF THE AGENDA

1. Opening remarks and adoption of Agenda

i. Welcome remarks

ii. Meeting objectives, agenda and frame of discussions

2. Introduction to the OECD set of green growth indicators

3. Current situation and demand for green growth monitoring in the Eastern Partnership and Central Asia countries: Roundtable discussion

4. Lessons learned from the practical application of the OECD set of green growth indicators

i. The Netherlands

ii. Latin American countries

iii. Czech Republic

iv. Kyrgyzstan

5 EEA work on green economy related aspects using the EEA core set of indicators

6. Headline green growth indicators

i. Introduction to the concept and the OECD set

ii. Roundtable discussion

7. Possible future work

i. Testing green growth indicators at the national level

ii. Outline for a handbook on green growth indicators

iii. Links to complementary processes

8. Regular monitoring of green growth: Statistical agencies perspective

9. Follow up and closing remarks


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ANNOTATIONS TO THE AGENDA

Tuesday, 5 March 2013, starting at 9:30

1. 09:30 – 10:00 Opening remarks and adoption of Agenda ENV/EPOC/EAP/A(2013)1

Mr. Martin Frélich (First Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic) will welcome delegates and open the meeting. Ms. Angela Bularga (OECD Secretariat) will introduce the meeting objectives, agenda and supporting documentation. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to discuss and adopt the draft agenda.

2. 10:00 – 11:00 Introduction to the OECD set of green growth indicators

Power Point Presentation Room Documents

Ms. Angela Bularga (OECD Secretariat) will present the OECD set of green growth indicators.

ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to take note of the presentation and pose questions.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

3. 11:30 – 13:30 Current situation and demand for green growth monitoring in the Eastern Partnership and Central Asia countries: Roundtable discussion

Room Documents

The delegates will be invited to briefly introduce achievements and challenges of measuring green growth in their country context.


• to contribute to the roundtable discussion reflecting on further needs to improve the analytical base for green growth monitoring in the countries of Eastern Partnership and Central Asia.

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

4. 14:30 – 15:15 Lessons learned from the application of the OECD set of green growth indicators

i. The Netherlands ii. Latin American countries


Mr. Žiga Žarnić (OECD Secretariat) will provide information on the Netherlands set of green growth indicator and share the experience of pilot testing the OECD set of green growth indicators the Latin American countries, which has been conducted jointly with UNIDO. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:



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4. 15:15 – 16:00 Lessons learned from the application of the OECD set of green growth indicators

iii. Czech Republic


Mr. Bedrich Moldan (Director of the Environment Centre, Charles University in Prague) will deliver a presentation on the experience of the Czech Republic gained from the application of the OECD set of green growth indicators in their country. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:


16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

4. 16:30 – 17:45 Lessons learned from the practical application of the OECD set of green growth indicators

iv. Kyrgyzstan


Ms. Liubov TEN (Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Anti-Monopoly Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic) will present progress and lessons learned from the pilot testing of the OECD green growth indicators in Kyrgyzstan conducted jointly by the OECD secretariat and the UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI). Ms. Nurzhan TOKTOGULOVA (expert, UNDP-UNEP PEI Kyrgyzstan) will be invited to complement this presentation. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:


5. 17:00 – 17:30 EEA work on green economy related aspects using the EEA core set of indicators


Ms. Adriana Gheorghe (European Environmental Agency, EEA) will brief the audience about EEA’s efforts to measure progress towards green economy in its member countries. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:


Dinner at the invitation of the Czech Ministry of Environment


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Wednesday, 6 March 2013, starting at 9:30

6. 9:30 – 10:30 Headline green growth indicators

i. Introduction to the concept and the OECD set

ii. Roundtable discussion

Power Point Presentation

Mr. Žiga Žarnić (OECD Secretariat) will kick-off the discussion by introduction the OECD work on headline indicators. This will be followed by 2-3 panel interventions and a general discussion of the demand and applicability of headline indicators in the Eastern Partnership and Central Asia countries. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to take note of the presentation and pose questions; • to discuss demand and constraints for using headline indicators in the Eastern

Partnership and Central Asia countries.

7. 10:30 – 11:30 Possible future work

i. Testing green growth indicators at the national level

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Ms. Angela Bularga (OECD Secretariat) will briefly introduce OECD plans to launch new pilot projects in several Eastern Partnership countries and will open the floor for discussing their organisation. This will be followed by a general discussion. Countries will be invited to signal their interest in hosting such projects. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to signal interest in participating in pilot projects; • to provide feedback on possible constrains of the pilot projects implementation

and brainstorm on ways to overcome such constraints. 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

7. 12:00 – 13:30 Possible future work (continued)

ii. Outline for a handbook on green growth indicators

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Ms. Angela Bularga (OECD Secretariat) will introduce the proposed outline for a Policy Reform Handbook on green growth indicators in the Eastern Partnership and Central Asia countries. This presentation will provide background for a discussion on methodological support needs in relation to the monitoring of progress towards green growth. ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to take note of the presentation and pose questions; • to provide feedback on the proposed outline.

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch


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7. 14:30 – 15:45 Possible future work (continued)

iii. Links to complementary processes

Oral reports

Representatives of international partners will be invited to inform countries of the work that is related to green growth measurement, and from which the project can draw upon or contribute to. In particular, the following speakers will take the floor:

• Ms. Adriana Gheorghe (European Environmental Agency); • Mr. Vladislav Bizek (Consultant to the UNECE Secretariat); • Ms. Rie Tsutsumi (UNEP).


• to take note of the presentation and pose questions; • to share information on other relevant processes; • to advise the OECD secretariat on most effective ways of interaction with other

international and non-governmental partners.

8. 15:45 – 16:30 Regular monitoring of green growth: Statistical agencies perspective

Oral interventions

This issue will be addressed by the following speakers:

• Ms. Iva Ritschelová (President of the Czech Statistical Office); • Mr. Dzhanbulat Baizhumanov (First Deputy Chairman of the National Statistical

Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic). ACTION REQUIRED: The participants are invited:

• to take note of the presentations and pose questions.

9. 16:30 – 17:00 Follow up and closing remarks Oral reports Under this agenda item, delegates will be invited to raise any other questions pertinent to the meeting’s subject. In order to make an assessment of the quality and effectiveness of this meeting, the OECD secretariat will invite delegates to fill in and return an evaluation questionnaire. At the end of the meeting, Ms. Klara Wajdová, Director of International Relations Department at the Czech Ministry of the Environment and Ms. Angela Bularga (OECD Secretariat) will make closing remarks.