Measuring The Future We Want
An International Conference on
Indicators for Inclusive Green Economy/Green Growth Policies
United Nations Environment Programme
Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG)
4-6 December 2012
Context
In the last several years, major international organisations have launched green
economy (GE)/green growth (GG) initiatives to integrate economic, environmental, and
social imperatives. These initiatives helped place “green economy in the context of
sustainable development and poverty eradication” on the Rio+20 agenda. The Rio+20
outcome document - “The Future We Want” - acknowledges green economy as an
important tool to deliver sustainable development and calls for methodologies to
evaluate green economy policies.
At the heart of any policy evaluation is indicators, which are one of the major research
priorities identified by the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), a partnership of
UNEP, World Bank, OECD and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Members of
the GGKP have respective activities in this area:
OECD has developed and applied GG indicators covering environmental and
resource productivity, natural assets, environmental quality of life, and economic
opportunities and policy responses. It is also developing GG headline indicators.
The World Bank has been working on Adjusted Net Savings (ANS) for many
years and is now focusing on ecosystem/natural capital accounting.
UNEP has a wide range of activities on indicators ranging from its Global
Environmental Outlook, Inclusive Wealth Report, and indicators of sustainable
consumption and production, to the most recent effort to produce a guidance
manual on using indicators in developing GE policies.
As GGKP partners all engage at the country level in the area of indicators, there is a
need to harmonize approaches, draw experiences and lessons from all key players,
including civil society groups, and provide consistent advice to countries interested in
pursuing inclusive GE /GG policies.
Objectives and outputs
This conference will bring together international organizations, governments, research
institutes, NGOs, businesses and other groups that are interested in using indicators to
support the development of GE /GG policies. The overarching objective is to:
1. Share experiences and lessons from the work on GE/GG related indicators at
global, national, sub-national and corporate levels
2. Share an outline of UNEP’s guidance manual focusing on the use of indicators in
supporting the making of inclusive GE /GG policies;
3. Forge a network of exports to provide advice on how to harmonize approaches
and use indicators to guide GE /GG policy development;
4. Identify knowledge gaps and research priorities for GGKP in the area of
indicators.
Day 3 will focus specifically on activities in the area of GG/GE indicators of the Green
Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP). It will finish with a closed session among the
GGKP partners to finalize the outline of a joint publication and the details of the related
work program.
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Draft Agenda (4-6 December 2012)
Day 1 – December 4
08:30h– 09:00h
Registration
09:00h – 09:15h Welcome and opening, UNEP
Salle 21+22
Dr. Steven Stone, Chief, Economics and Trade Branch,
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE), UNEP
09:15h – 09:30h Introduction of the Agenda
Salle 21+22
Sheng Fulai, Economics and Trade Branch, UNEP
9:30h – 10:45h
Session 1: Indicators of Policy Targets
Salle 21 + 22
Facilitator: Oliver Zwirner, European Commission
Questions:
 What are the experiences of setting policy targets?
 What are the challenges in the use of indicators for setting
policy targets?
Setting Policy Targets, Prof. Martin Jänicke, Founding
Director of the Research Centre for Environmental Policy,
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Environmental Health Indicators, Dr. Carlos Dora,
Coordinator, WHO
Resource Efficiency Indicators, Dr. Stefan Speck, Project
Manager, European Environment Agency
Resource Sufficiency Evaluation and Reporting, Ed
Barry, Director, Sustainable World Initiative.
10:45h– 11:00h
Coffee Break
11:00h – 12:15h Session 2: Indicators of Policy Interventions
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Dr. Andrea Bassi, KnowlEdge Srl
Questions:
 What are the experiences of using indicators in formulating
policy interventions?
 How to establish the connections between policy interventions
and policy targets
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Green Jobs, Valentina Stoevska, Senior
Statistician/Marek Harsdorff, Economist, ILO
ISO-Environmental Management Standards and Focus on
ISO 14031- Environmental Performance Evaluation
(Indicators), Dr. Peter Gresch, Gresch Partner; SNV Swiss
Standardization Organisation
Measuring Progress Towards Sustainable Development
Goals: Proposals for Process and a Principles Based
Approach, Prof. Dr. László Pintér, International Institute
for Sustainable Development and Central European
University
12:15h – 13:30h
Lunch Break
13:30h – 15:00h Session 3: Impacts of GE/GG Policy Interventions
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Dr. Erika Jorgensen, Economic Adviser, World Bank
Questions:
 What are the most important and globally common impacts that
must be measured as a result of national level GE/GG policy
interventions?
 Which institutions have the most authoritative data, statistics
and indicators to capture these impacts?
Inclusive Wealth Index, Dr. Pushpam Kumar, Chief,
UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation
Millennium Institute's (MI's) experience with modeling
GE/GG indicators, Dr. Matteo Pedercini, Millennium
Institute
Measuring Aid for Trade Environmental Outcomes, Dr.
Alexander Kasterine, Senior Adviser, International Trade
Center
Sustainable development indicators, Prof. Dr. Wang Yi,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
ITU experience with indicators, Ms. Cristina Bueti,
Advisor, ITU
15:00h – 15:15h
Coffee Break
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15:15h – 16:30h Session 4: Composite Indicators (2 parallel group
sessions)
Questions:
 What are the key lessons learned from using composite
indicators?
 What needs to be done to develop composite indicators for
GE/GG, taking into account existing composite indicators?
Salle 21+22
Group 1
Facilitator: Dr. Ashbindu Singh, Chief, UNEP
Human Development Index, Dr. Jose Pineda, Policy
Specialist, Human Development Report Office, UNDP
Composite indices of sustainability, Prof. Peter Bartelmus,
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Genuine Progress Index, Prof. Jin Zhouying, Senior
Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Salle 4
Group 2
Facilitator: Dr. Heinz Schandl, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIRO
Better Life Index, Dr. Paul Schreyer, Deputy Chief
Statistician, OECD
Sustainable competitiveness, Roberto Crotti, Economist,
World Economic Forum
Ecological Footprint, Sebastian Winkler, Director / Dr.
Alessandro Galli, Senior Scientist and Director, Global
Footprint Network
16:30h – 16:45h Wrapping-up of the Day
Salle 21+22
Sheng Fulai, Economics and Trade Branch, UNEP
16:45h – 18:30h UNEP bilateral meetings with partner countries
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Day 2 – December 5
9:00h – 09:15h
Introduction of Day 2
Salle 21+22
Sheng Fulai, Economics and Trade Branch, UNEP
9:15h – 10:45h
Session 5: Policy Context for Country Activities on GE
Indicators (2 parallel group sessions)
Questions:
 What is the main policy framework related to GE/GG?
 What are the specific needs for indicators to support GE/GG
policy making?
Salle 4
Group 1
Facilitator: Meriem Ait Ali Slimane, UNEP
Morocco, Ms. Amal Moufarreh, Ministère de l’Energie, des
Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement
China, Dr. Yu Hai, Policy Research Centre for Environment
and Economy, China
Thailand, Ms. Nareerat Panmanee, Office of the Natural
Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning
(ONEP), Dr. Niramon Sutummakid, Associate Professor,
Thammasat University, Bangkok
Ghana, Dr. Simon Bawakyillenuo, Research Fellow,
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research
Salle 21+22
Group 2
Facilitator: Dr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye, ILO
Uruguay, Ms. Ana Virgina Chiesa, Planning Consultant,
Ms. Verónica Durán Fernández, Economic Adviser,
Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries
Barbados, Ms. Amrikha Singh, Ministry of Environment
and Drainage/Dr. Winston Moore, Senior Lecturer, The
University of the West Indies
Ecuador, Ms. Karla Beltrán Valenzuela, Consultant / Ms.
Liliana Roldan, Coordinator, National Secretary of
Planning and Development
10:45h – 11:00h
Coffee Break
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11:00h – 12:15h Session 6: UNEP/ MEA Work on Indicators
Salle 21+22
Round 1
Facilitator: Ron Witt, Regional Coordinator, UNEP
Questions:
 How to connect the work on indicators to ongoing policy
processes?
 How to link global indicators to national level indicators
Outline of UNEP’s manual on the use of GE indicators, Dr.
Andrea Bassi, KowlEdge Srl
Indicators for Monitoring the Implementation of the
Stockholm and Basel Conventions, Matthias Kern, Senior
Programme Officer, UNEP
Indicators of resource efficiency/sustainable consumption
and production, Shaoyi Li, Head, UNEP Division of
Industry, Technology and Economics
Tracking Global Environmental Change through Indicators,
Jaap van Woerden, UNEP Division of Early Warning and
Assessment (DEWA)
12:15h – 13:15h Lunch Break
13:15h – 14:45h
Round 2
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Dr. Sanju Deenapanray, Director, Ecological Living in
Action, Mauritius
Questions:
 What are the expected policy impacts from the indicators that
have been developed?
 How do different work streams of indicators link to each other?
Biodiversity indicators, Dr. Markus Lehmann, Economist,
Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity
Resource efficiency assessments and indicators in the
Asia-Pacific region, Dr. Heinz Schandl, Senior Principal
Scientist, CSIRO
CDM Sustainable Development Co-benefit Indicators, Dr.
Karen Holm Olsen, Senior Researcher, UNEP Risø
Centre (URC)
Latin American and Caribbean Initiative on Sustainable
Development, Andrea Salinas, Programme Officer, UNEP
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14:45h – 15:00h
Coffee Break
15:00h – 16:30h Session 7: Indicators, Communication, and Capacity
Building
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Dr. Peter Prokosch, Managing Director, UNEP/GRIDArendal
Questions:
 What are the experiences of making indicators accessible?
 How to engage stakeholders especially the indicators’ “user
community” when working on indicators?
Green Economy Index and communication, Jeremy
Tamanini, Dual Citizen
Perspectives of civil society on indicators, Oliver
Greenfield, Green Economy Coalition
Indicators for Country Driven Capacity Development to
Advance a Green Economy, Achim Halpaap, UNITAR
Communicating with Indicators on our Changing
Environment, Stefan Schwarzer, UNEP
16:30h – 18:00h Session 8 + 9 will be held in parallel
Salle 21+22
Session 8: Corporate level Indicators (held in parallel with
session 9)
Facilitator: Charles Arden-Clarke, UNEP
Questions:
 What are the experiences of using indicators for promoting
Corporate Social Responsibility?
 What needs to be done to follow up on the Rio+20’s call for
strengthening sustainability reporting?
Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability,
Cecilia Serin, World Economic Forum
Measuring the Sustainability of the Financial Sector, Yuki
Yasui, UNEP Finance Initiative
Investment in Green Activities, Morten Larsen, Senior
Analyst, Oxford Research A/S, Denmark
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Salle 4
Session 9: Regional Work on Indicators (held in parallel
with session 8)
Facilitator: Jose Pineda, Policy Specialist, HDRO, UNDP
Questions:
 What are the experiences and lessons from organizing regional
level work on indicators?
 What are the impacts of regional indicators work?
Monitoring the Transition to the Green Economy in the
Arab Region: the SME perspective, Dr. Riccardo
Mesiano, First Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCWA
Ecological Efficiency of Production and Consumption, Rae
Kwon Chung, UNESCAP
Experiences from Europe, Dr. Marco Keiner, Director,
Environment Department, UNECE
Experiences from Africa, Dr. Desta Mebratu, UNEP
18:00h – 18:15h Closing Remarks – End of the First Part of the
Conference
Steven Stone, Chief, Economics and Trade Branch, DTIE,
UNEP
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Indicators and the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP) –
December 6
Open to All Participants
9:00h – 9:10h
Welcoming Remarks to GGKP Section of the
Conference
Salle 21+22
Steven Stone, UNEP
9:10h – 10:15h
Session 1: Introduction of GGKP and its Indicators
Programme
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Benjamin Simmons, GGKP Secretariat
Question:
 How do the different indicators work streams among GGKP
partners fit together?
GG indicators and Headline GG Indicators, Tomasz
Kozluk, Senior Economist, OECD
Statistics for Better Management of Natural Capital, Dr.
Marianne Fay, World Bank
Indicators work at GGGI, Dr. Hoseok Kim, Senior
Program Manager, GGGI
10:15h – 10:30h
Coffee Break
10:30h – 12:15h
Session 2: Key Environmental-economic Indicators
Facilitator: Tomasz Kozluk, Senior Economist, OECD
Salle 21+22
Questions:
 What are the research priorities on indicators linking the
economic and environmental spheres?
 How to reflect inclusiveness in environmental-economic
indicators?
SEEA and Adjusted Macroeconomic Aggregates, Prof.
Peter Bartelmus, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Growth of Environmental Industry, Prof. Ge Chazhong,
Director, China Academy of Environmental Planning
Environmental Goods and Services Sectors (EGSS), Dr.
Anton Steurer, Eurostat
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Resource Efficiency Indicators, Dr. Helmut Schütz,
Wuppertal Institute
Sustainability Indicators in Japan, Chika Aoki-Suzuki,
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) /
Masahiro Sato, Kyoto University
12:15h – 13:30h
Session 3: National Experiences and Lessons
Salle 21+22
Facilitator: Dr. Hoseok Kim, Senior Programme Manager, GGGI
Questions:
 What are the specific impacts of indicators work at different
levels?
 What types of international support do countries need in
advancing the work on indicators in support of GE/GG
policies?
Green Development Index in China, Prof. Li Xiaoxi,
Deputy Director, Beijing Normal University
Indonesian Experience in Developing Sustainable
Development Indicators, Zainuddin Gustami, Head of
Incentive and Environmental Fund Division, Ministry of
Environment, Indonesia
Sustainable Development, Welfare and Environmental
Monitoring in Germany – About Impacts and Needs, Dr.
Joerg Mayer-Ries, Head of Division, Federal Ministry
for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear
Safety, Germany
13:30h – 13:40h
Closing of GGKP Session 3
Salle 21+22
Dr. Marianne Fay, World Bank
13:40h
Lunch
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