19-20 May 2015, OECD, Paris, France

 

 

 

About the workshop

Workshop Agenda

Meeting Summary

 

Co-facilitators: Mr. Matti Numelin, ENVIRONET Bureau (Finland) & Mr. Maher Mamhikoff, WP-STAT Chair (Canada) & Dr. Amal-Lee Amin, ENVIRONET Member (E3G) 

 

Workshop Objectives: 

• To facilitate a dialogue between the DAC, partner countries and stakeholders on approaches and challenges to track domestic and international climate- and  biodiversity- related finance in partner countries;
• To explore the partner country perspective of OECD DAC environmental statistics, in particular the climate- and biodiversity-related “Rio markers”, on areas such as the understanding, access and relevance of these data;
• To provide insights for the discussion on fine-tuning the “Rio marker” definitions and methodology.

 

Sessions:

1. Overview of OECD DAC environmental statistics and recent progress to improve these
2. Dialogue on Partner Country Approaches and Challenges in Tracking Climate- and Biodiversity-related Finance
3. Perspectives for Improving the OECD DAC Climate- and Biodiversity-related Development Finance Statistics  
4. Update on the Partnership for Climate Finance and Development and Post-2015 Dialogues

 

Presentations

 

1. Overview of OECD DAC environmental statistics and recent progress to improve these

 

This session provided an overview of OECD DAC environmental statistics, in particular climate-related statistics, and recent progress made to improve these, including the integration of bilateral and multilateral climate-related development finance statistics into one integrated framework.

 

Ms. Stephanie Ockenden and Ms. Mariana Mirabile, OECD DAC Secretariat

 

 

 

2. Dialogue on Partner Country Approaches and Challenges in Tracking Climate- and Biodiversity-related Finance

 

 

Tracking climate-related finance in Mexico, Ms. Neydi Cruz, Secretary of State for Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico [No presentation]

 

Ms. María Verónica Villena Cardich, Climate Change Office, Ministry of Environment Peru

 

Mr. Jorge Iván Escalante Castellanos, Presidential Agency for International Co-operation, Colombia

 

Insights from Mr. Tom Beloe, Climate Change Governance and Development Effectiveness Asia-Pacific Regional Center, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [No presentation]

 

Insights from Ms. Sandra Guzmán, Grupo de Financiamiento Climático para América Latina y el Caribe (GFLAC) [No presentation]

 

 

Ria Sartika Azhari and Hageng Suryo Nugroho, Centre for Climate Change Finance and Multilateral Policy, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia

 

Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Trinh, Department of Science, Education, Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam

 

Tracking climate- and biodiversity-related finance in the Philippines, Mr. John Adrian Narag, International Finance Group, Department of Finance, Philippines [No presentation]

 

Mr. David Meyers, The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) at UNDP

 

Insights from Mr. Dave Steinbach,  International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) [No presentation]

 

 

 3. Perspectives for Improving the OECD DAC Climate- and Biodiversity-related Development Finance Statistics  

 

This session focused on how OECD DAC data can be further enhanced to improve the partner country perspective and experiences, including reflections on the use and relevance of OECD DAC data by partner countries. 

 

Mr. David Kaluba, National Climate Change Secretariat, Ministry of Finance, Zambia

 

Mr. Appukuttan Nair Damodaran, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India

 

Ms. Andrea Iro, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

 

Mr. Sudo Tomonori, JICA Research Institute, Japan

 

Insights from Ms. Smita Nakhooda, Climate and Environment, Overseas Development Institute [No presentation]

 

 

 4. Update on the Partnership for Climate Finance and Development and Post-2015 Dialogues

 

The Partnership for Climate Finance and Development is a voluntary initiative promoting the deployment and effective use of climate finance at country-level through coherence and collaboration among climate change, finance and development co-operation communities at the country, regional and global levels. 

 

Ms. Jan Corfee-Morlot, OECD Secretariat and Mr. Tom Beloe, UNDP