Programme Cooperation Agreement 2010 – 2011

Energy Efficiency of fuels – how many kilometres can we drive?

Following the launch of the Green Economy report UNEP invited GRID-Arendal to manage the production of the Green Economy in a Blue World report as well as Green Economy in Small Island Development States (SIDS) , as mentioned under the Marine Programme. At the same time, important inroads were made with other internation- al actors and with Norwegian organizations. For instance, in September 2011 GRID-Arendal participated in the First Global Sustainable Financing Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, endorsed by the UNEP Finance Initiative. Un- der the auspices of the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions (WFDFI) the event explored the theme ‘greening financial institutions’. GRID-Arendal, to- gether with The World Bank and the event organizer, Etech Germany, contributed substantially to the formulation of the Karlsruhe Declaration as an output of the conference and a message to Rio+20. 76 i Anecdotal evidence (web search on direct referenc- es; unsolicited, positive responses from partners; enquiries) suggests that the declaration has contributed to growing awareness, in particular about the need for greater integration of economic, social and environmen- tal concerns and consensus among key international fi- nancial institutions on metrics for promoting, measuring and incentivizing ‘green growth’ models for economic development. GRID-Arendal intends to exploit this en- hanced awareness – specifically in the context of the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 – through an active pro- gramme of outreach in collaboration with UNEP and other partners. At home, GRID-Arendal’s objective to expand its domestic network of viable partners in this critical field was largely achieved in 2011. Involvement in UNEP’s Green Economy report resulted in an invitation by Yrkesorganisasjonenes Sentralforbund (YS), the Norwegian union for employee organisations, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nor- way to contribute substantively to the preparation of a green economy report for Norway. This engagement has provided the organization with an effective, credible entry point for further, incremental engagement with a broad ar- ray of academic, private and public sector actors, which is

76. For further details of the conference and the declaration, which was shared with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October 2011, see http:// www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&type=13&nr=402&m enu=27 77. Including the Norwegian School of Life Sciences, the Ministry of Environment and Development (ref. the Future Cities Project), the Nor- wegian Central Statistics Office (SSB), the University of Bodø (ref. the Masters Programme in Ecological Economics), “Kunnskapshaven” in Arendal and Klimapartnere (“Climate Partners”) in Kristiansand. 78. http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/biofuels/ a prerequisite for GRID-Arendal’s communications man- date. 77 Two new volumes in the Vital Graphics series were prepared during 2011 to increase understanding of Green Economy issues and opportunities centred on payments for ecosystems services and biofuels: The Payments for Ecosystems Services Vital Graphics aims to highlight the potential benefit of ecosystems- based economic development through a visual explora- tion of the Ecosystems Services concept and Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) markets segments, to- gether with a brief analysis, supported by visuals, of the challenges and opportunities related to PES and poverty alleviation. PES Vital Graphics will be published in the first quarter of 2012. Under the Biofuels Initiative, GRID-Arendal and UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) developed Biofuels Vital Graphics: Powering a Green Economy 78 to visualize the options, opportunities, and safeguards needed to make biofuels a cornerstone of the Green Economy. The report will be launched by UNEP DTIE in January 2012 at the 5 th World Future Energy Sum- mit in Abu Dhabi. Other Green Economy activities were clustered around the Mitigation and Adaptation Information Network for sustainable living (MAIN), and on Linking Tourism and Conservation (LT&C). UNEP initiated the Mitigation and Adaptation Information Network (MAIN) project in 2008, in support of its capacity building work under the Climate Change sub-programme.

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