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Expert Group Meeting on Green Growth
and Green Jobs for Youth

12-13 December 2012
Bangkok, Thailand

LINK TO DOCUMENTS
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Green Growth and Green Jobs for Youth
   
Concept Note
Tentative programme
List of participants
   
PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS
12 December 2012
  Session 1: Creating an enabling environment for a job centred inclusive growth and green economy
  Sustainable Consumption & Production (SCP) and Green Jobs by Janet Salem, Programme Officer, UNEP
  Green policies and jobs for youth by Sukti Dasgupta, Head, Regional Economic and Social Analysis Unit, ILO ROAP
  Strategies for facilitating the emergence of more productive and greener jobs by Clovis Freire, Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (MPDD), ESCAP based on results of join research with Lorenzo Santucci, EAO, EDD, ESCAP
  Discussions toward Composing Framework for Green Development Policy of Japan by Kenichi Sannabe, Deputy Counsellor, National Policy Unit Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
  Paper - Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment
  Paper - Comprehensive Strategy for the Rebirth of Japan ~ Exploring the frontiers and building a "Country of Co-creation"
   
 

Session 2: Opportunities and challenges for promoting green jobs for youth

  Opportunities for social integration of youth in Asia and the Pacific by Ermina Sokou, Social Development Division (SDD), ESCAP
  Green jobs for Youth Working towards social equity by Vincent Jugault, Senior Specialist in Environment and Decent Work, ILO ROAP
  Youth & Green Economy by Satwant Kaur, Information Officer, UNEP
     
 

Session 3: Education and skills for green jobs

  Education and skills for green jobs by Olga Streitska-Ilina, Senior Skills Specialist, ILO
  Presentation by Lawrence Surendra, The Sustainability Platform National Design Research Forum, India
  Tertiary Education & Training for Green jobs by Vajira Perera, Director (NVQ), TVEC, Sri Lanka
  Green Growth Capacity Building by Aneta Nikolova, Environment and Development Division (EDD), ESCAP
   
  Session 4: Good practices and initiatives on innovative financing
  Pursuing Sustainable Indonesia: Green Economy Policy Initiatives and Role of Youth by Laksmi Dhewanthi, Assistant Deputy Minister for Environmental Economics, Ministry of Environment, Indonesia
  Paper - Principles of Environmental Management in Banking by Santoso Wibowo, Director of Credit, Rural Bank and MSME Department
  Challenges for Investing in Small Scale Renewables in Thailand
     
13 December 2012
  Session 6: Promoting green youth entrepreneurship and small and medium- sized enterprises for green jobs
Indonesia Green Entreprneurship by Janti Gunawan
  Promoting green youth entrepreneurship and Small and medium-sized enterprises for green jobs: lessons from the Peruvian case by Janina Leon, Professor of Economics, Departamento de Economía, Pontíficia Universidad Católica del Perú
  Junior Achievement Program by John Wali, Executive Director, Junior Achievement Kenya
  Green Business Opportunities for SMEs and Youth in India by Rajan Gandhi, President, Society in Action Group

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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