G20 Lecture on Green Growth and Climate Change

G20 Foundation Lecture at Alma Graduate School
Green Growth, Sustainability and
Climate Change within the G20 Process

About G20 Foundation

The G20 Foundation is an independent platform
formed to help develop a framework for better global governance.

§  As an intermediary platform, the G20
Foundation positions itself as process
enabler and a facilitator between
governments, business, and academia
within the G20 process.

§  As a non-partisan think tank, we
stimulate constructive and eﬀective
discussions within “Outreach Dialogue”
in order to support the implementation of
the G20 commitments on a national
level.

§  We add value through encouraging
broader public consensus and
understanding of the G20 commitments
which leads to higher accountability and
raises eﬀectiveness of a governance
process.

§  Thereby we foster the development of
innovative solutions to global challenges,
such as economic stability and
sustainable growth.

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Our Goals
Coordinate communication between
major G20 stakeholders:
- Develop innovative solutions and share best
practices for challenges on the G20 agenda.
- Contributing to transparency in the overall
communication process and creating a broader public
consensus for G20 commitments.

Provide a framework for analysis of topics
attached to G20 agenda:
- Combining impulses from politics, economics,
academia, private and public organization at national
and international level to foster focused public
discussions on the G20 agenda and commitments.

G20
Foundation
Support the implementation of G20 action
items in individual countries:
- Reinforce the post-summit implementation process
of selective items decided upon on the G20 level in
cooperation with various stakeholders from the
member countries.

Increase international cooperation:
- Establish new approaches for international
cooperation by connecting leading personalities from
all relevant sectors worldwide on speciﬁc issues.
- This is an opportunity to unite cultures, countries,
and people based on shared ideals.

Global Governance


Deﬁnitions
§  “...a political correction of the globalised
market economy in the sense of...an
integration of economic systems into
more comprehensive social aims...”
[Holger Mürle]
§  “...a complex multi-level system of
governing beyond the nation state...“
[Ulrich Menzel]


Global Governance
§  „...not a foreign political concept, but a project to
reorganise politics at all levels of activity...Global
governance means to parry the threat of abandoning
organisation by politics in favour of anonymous
system logics and the formation of a 'non-state'
world...‘
[Dirk Messner/Franz Nuscheler]
§  “...[represents an environment in which] solution
strategies would be searched for, which do not
question the economic and political beneﬁts of
globalisation, and are suitable for surmounting and
tempering the unfairness and dangers which have
occurred...This task has been labelled global
governance in the meantime...“
[German Federal Assembly]


G20


G20
§  The Group of Twenty (G20) is a new economic integration established in 1999. That is
premier forum for international cooperation on the most important issues of the
global economic and financial agenda. It brings together governors from 19 countries
and the EU.
§  Objectives:
1.  Policy coordination between its members;
2.  Financial regulations that reduce risks and prevent future financial crises;
3.  Modernization of international financial architecture.
§  There are no formal criteria for G-20 membership and the composition of the group
has remained unchanged since it was established. In view of the objectives of the
G-20, it was considered important that countries and regions of systemic
significance for the international financial system be included. Aspects such as
geographical balance and population representation also played a major part.


G20 Key indicators
§  G20 members represent almost:
§  90% of global GDP
§  80% of international global-trade
§  2/3 of the world's population lives in G20 member countries.
§  The presidency of the G20 rotates annually among its members. The presidency
leads a three-member management group of previous, current and future chairs,
referred to as the Troika, the purpose of which is smooth transition from one
presidency to another.


G20 Countries and Permanent Members


History
§  Was foreshadowed at the Cologne
Summit of the G7 in June 1999
§  Was only formally established at the G7
Finance Ministers' meeting on 26
September 1999.
§  The inaugural meeting took place on 15–
16 December 1999 in Berlin. In 2008,
Spain and the Netherlands were
included, by French invitation, in the
G-20 Leaders Summit on Financial
Markets and the World Economy.


2008 G-20 Summit, Washington


2009 G-20 Summit, London


2009 G-20 Summit, Pittsburgh


2010 G-20 Summit, Toronto


2010 G-20 Summit, Seoul


2011 G-20 Summit, Cannes


2012 G-20 Summit, Los Cabos


2013 G-20 Summit, St. Petersburg


G20 Russian Presidency


Russian G20 Presidency
§ 

In the forefront of the G20 summit, the Russian
presidency announced to set a special focus on
growth related topics such as growth through
quality jobs and investment, growth through trust
and transparency and growth through effective
regulation.

§ 

Unlike preceding presidencies, the Russian G20
presidency set a special focus on including a wide
range of different parties and Outreach groups in
the decision process.

§ 

Following our analysis of the Outreach groups’ recommendations and the final Leaders’ Declaration, we
can state that the G20 have great opportunities to become the leading forum for solving long-term and
short-term global problems. The G20 Foundation supports the G20 by integrating the different
stakeholders of the G20 decision process like the Outreach groups as a neutral and non-partisan
process enabler.

§ 

The G20 Foundation participated at the G20 summit to build up important relationships, for example
with the Turkish delegation. As Turkey will take over the G20 Presidency in 2015, it is a member of the
G20 Troika right now.

Starting a new Cycle of Economic Growth
2013 Russian Presidency Objectives


By enhancing the Outreach dialogue with non-G20 states,
international organizations, business circles, labour unions, civil
society, future leaders, academia and think-tanks, we will not only
ensure legitimacy, transparency and eﬃciency of the G20, but also
expand our vision, come up with better solutions, and generate
cross-sectoral synergy to enhance the public beneﬁt of the G20.
© “The Russian Presidency of the G20: Outline"


G20 Outreach – Russian G20 Presidency
§  Core principle of the Russian
outreach strategy during their
G20 Presidency is to allow
proposals from all relevant
groups.
§  For the ﬁrst time in the G20
process, the format was
enlarged by Civil20 and the
Outreach format was expanded
to ensure the inclusion of all
relevant stakeholders.

G20
Leaders Summit
Sherpa-Oﬃce

YOUTH20

CIVIL20
BUSINESS20

LABOUR20

THINK20


The Russian Agenda
Overall Goal: Start a new cycle of economic growth
§  Growth through quality jobs and investment;
§  Growth through trust and transparency;
§  Growth through effective regulation
8 Focus Areas
§  Framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth;
§  Jobs and employment;
§  International financial architecture reform;
§  Strengthening financial regulation;
§  Energy sustainability;
§  Development for all;
§  Enhancing multilateral trade;
§  Fighting corruption.

Focus: Global Growth and Public Debt
Leaders’ Declaration: Focus on The G20 framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth
and growth through quality jobs
G20 Framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth (St Petersburg Action Plan)
§  monetary and financial stability,
§  effective investment
§  labor force participation
general agreement on
§  strengthening the foundations for economic and monetary union
§  enforcing domestic price stability, more market determined exchange rates
§  boosting investment
§  addressing fundamental weaknesses
§  enhancing productivity and competitiveness,
§  increasing labor force participation
§  improving financial stability and credit access,
§  addressing internal and external imbalances

Focus: Global Growth and Public Debt
Leaders’ Declaration: Focus on The G20 framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth
and growth through quality jobs
Quality Jobs: more productive and higher quality jobs as key driver for balanced growth
§  Improving the business environment
§  Eduction
§  Job quality
Youth Unemployment (Giving Youth a Better Start Initiative)
§  promotion of apprenticeships and vocational training programs
Public Debt
§  vague commitment to “put debt as a share of GDP on a sustainable path”


Case Study: G20 Foundation within G20 Process


Conference on Russian G20 Presidency, Moscow
§ 

A conference on "Fostering Economic Growth and Sustainability"
was held in Moscow on December 13, 2012, within the framework
of the Russian G20 presidency. Russia oﬃcially unveiled the
priorities of its G20 presidency.

§ 

In addition, the outcome of the ﬁrst events within the framework
of the Russian presidency was reported. These are the outreach
Think 20, Civil 20 and Business 20 meetings, which were held
on December 11 and 12. There were also reports from Youth 20
and Labor 20 representatives.

§ 

The conference featured a press occasion with featuring head of
the Expert Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation,
Russian G20 Sherpa Ksenia Yudaeva and Deputy Minister of
Finance of the Russian Federation Sergei Storchak.


G20 Civil Summit, Moscow
§ 

§ 

The Civil 20 Summit was held in Moscow's President Hotel
on June 13-14, 2013. It was attended by over 350
representatives of civil society, international organizations,
business community, government officials, and the media.
Civil society was represented by the delegates from the G20
countries and NGOs, academics from working groups that
prepared the C20 recommendations, the Global NGO Group
and the Civil Society Group. The Civil Communiqué - an
address to the G20 Leaders - was agreed on the results of the
Summit.

Michel Sidibé, Under-Secretary-General of the
United Nations, Ksenia Yudaeva, the Russian
G20 Sherpa and Mikhail Fedotov

The Civil 20 Summit is the concluding event of the Civil Track
of Russia's G20 Presidency. Russia is the first presiding
country to organize the civil society consultations process in
this format, and at such level. Its main goal is to promote
fruitful dialogue between global civil society, politicians and
decision-makers on the basis of the priorities set out in the
official agenda for 2013. The Civil 20 recommendations are
expected to influence the G20 Summit agenda and Leaders'
final Communiqué.
Russian G20 Sherpa Ksenia Yudaeva and
Victor Philippenko, G20 Foundation at G20
Civil Summit

G20 Conference on Commodity and Energy Markets, St. Petersburg
§ 

The Conference on commodity and energy markets
"Sustainable energy: designing policy for G20", preceding the
Second Energy Sustainability Working Group (ESWG) Meeting,
took place on July 8, 2013 in St. Petersburg.

§ 

The event brought together high level officials from the G20
governments, representatives of the international organizations,
top level business and industry representatives, as well as
representatives of think tanks and academia, to summarize the
ESWG activities in 2013 and look into the future G20 work in the
energy field.

§ 

G20 Foundation members at G20 Conference
on Conference on Commodity and Energy
Markets

The Conference agenda was focused on such issues, as
prospects of energy and commodity markets sustainability;
policies to promote inclusive green growth and pave the path
towards a sustainable energy of the future; improving
transparency and functionality of commodity markets; and
encouraging investment into sustainable energy.

G20 Foundation and team of Russian G20
Sherpa Office during the cultural program

Family Photo of the Participants of the G20 Conference on Conference on Commodity and Energy Markets

G20 Leaders‘ Summit, St. Petersburg
§  On September 5-6, 2013 the G20 Leaders' Summit
was held in St.Petersburg. The Summit, which is the
culmination of the Russian Presidency year, marked
the 5th anniversary of the G20 at the Leaders' level.
§  The key objective of the G20 at this moment, given
the continuing instability at the financial markets,
unemployment remaining high and persistent global
imbalances, is fostering strong, sustainable and
balanced growth. To get closer to attaining this goal,
Russia has set forth a number of tasks for the G20 to
stimulate economic growth and job creation, primarily
through encouraging long-term investment, ensuring
trust and transparency at the markets and enhancing
effective regulation.

G20 Foundation had a great opportunity to join the executive
organizing team at G20 Summit in St. Petersburg and gained unique
hands on experience supporting the operative implementation of this
top-level event.

§  Leaders' attention at their meeting was mainly
focused on the issues of ensuring economic growth
and financial stability, quality job creation and
tackling unemployment, searching for the new
sources of growth and investment financing, as well
as strengthening multilateral trade and international
development assistance.

Green Growth within G20 Process

Source: Prof. Sung Jin Kang, Korea University, Green Growth and Sustainable Development in G20


"We, too, believe that growth improves the solution to many things
[because] when you have a bigger cake it is easier to allocate it, it is
easier to take the right ﬁscal policies and to reduce debt, for example,”
"But we do also ﬁnd out, based on our research, that sustainable growth
is better and to actually feed sustainability, better [gender] inclusion and
less [income] inequality are highly recommended. And obviously 'green
growth', so to speak, is an area that has to be explored, developed and
endorsed by as many as possible.”
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF


Background
Fossil Fuel
Oriented Industry

Mass-Production
System

Achieved Industrial and Economic Growth

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GHG emissions,
Climate Change
Exhaustion of Fossil Fuel
Global Resource Constraint

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Energy Security
Price Variability
Population Growth
Desire for Economic Growth

Unsustainable Traditional Development Strategy

Requires a New Economic Development Strategy, “GREEN GROWTH”


Current Situation

International Community

Climate
Change

Degradation of Human Life
§ 
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Negatively aﬀecting people’s health
Posing a threat to national security

Urgent Needs Required
§  Reduce greenhouse gas emission
in order to prevent further damage
to the environment and humanity

Global
Economic
Crisis

Rethinking Current Growth Strategy
§  Warning about current economic
growth strategies

Green Growth as a Strategy
§  To decouple economic growth from
adverse environmental impacts


1st and 2nd Summit
1st and 2nd Summit

§  Economic crisis was a much higher priority
§  But climate change was given little emphasis

Pittsburgh Summit
Pittsburgh Summit

§  Agreed to make precise and timely announcements on oil
production, consumption, refinement and reserves
§  In a great need to correct inefficient fossil fuel subsidies and
increase clean and renewable energy efficiency

Toronto Summit
Toronto Summit

§  Stressed the importance of green growth
§  Decided to correct the situation where inefficient fossil fuel
subsidies




Seoul Summit

§  Agreed to rationalize fossil fuel subsidies
§  JODI showed a strong stance against price volatility in fossil fuel
markets
§  Welcomed GMEP to safeguard the marine environment

Cannes Summit

§  Reaffirmed financial sources by PPP
§  Agreed to optimize potential, expand low-carbon development
strategies and clean energy technology
§  Committed to work towards a successful outcome at the 2012
Rio+20

Los Cabos Summit

§  Welcomed international efforts to introduce GGKP
§  Effective mechanisms to be made to boost inclusive green
growth investments in developing countries
§  Committed to support operationalization of GCF
§  Reaffirmed to rationalize ineffective fossil fuel subsidies



3. G20 and Green Growth
Major Topics (Excerpt)

Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth
1.  Phasing out Ineﬃcient Fossil Fuel Subsidy
-  Rationalize fossil fuel subsidies according to the circumstances and phase out those
subsidies in the end.
2. Energy Price Volatility
-  Relieve price volatility from enhancing transparency in the markets, promote
exchanges between producers and consumers, and improve regulations in futures
markets.
3. Green Climate Fund
-  Enable developing countries to nurture clean energy technologies and to adapt to
climate change.



Green Growth as a Strategy
§  Should be interpreted as a pathway or strategy to achieve Sustainable
Development but with relatively more focus on economic growth and
environmental activities.
§  Some deﬁnitions include social development factors such as “Inclusive”.
However, they do not explicitly implementation policies to improve social
development. Sustainable development is not followed automatically by
green growth.
§  * Can be compared with the Inclusive Green Growth by the World Bank
(2012)



2. Green Growth and Sustainable Development
Green Growth vs. Inclusive Green Growth

Green Growth

Inclusive Green Growth

Social
Development

Economic
Growth

Social
Development

Eco-eﬃciency
Activities

Economic
Growth

Eco-eﬃciency
Activities

More Consider
Social Development



G20's Commitment to Inclusive Green Growth


Progress Areas of G20 Commitments
Structural reform:

Development cooperation:

§  given the importance of setting economies on a
climate-friendly path over the medium term,
Leaders welcomed the report produced by the
OECD, the World Bank and the UN containing
options for incorporating green growth and
sustainable development policies into structural
reform agendas

§ 

Leaders welcomed the launch of the Green
Growth Knowledge Platform, which will help
developing countries implement inclusive green
growth strategies and measures.

§ 

They also welcomed the delivery of a nonprescriptive, voluntary toolkit of policy options
for inclusive green growth, as well as a publicprivate Dialogue Platform on Inclusive Green
Investments to help encourage further
exploration of effective mechanisms to mobilize
public and private funds for inclusive green
growth investment in developing countries.

Climate finance:
§  Leaders welcomed the creation of a G20 study
group on climate finance, which is considering
ways to effectively mobilize resources for
tackling climate change.
§  Leaders also supported the activation of the
Green Climate Fund (the UNFCCC's mechanism
to assist developing countries to adapt to and
mitigate climate change).


Sustainable infrastructure:

Employment:

§  Leaders welcomed the report on Best Practices
for Urban Mass Transport Infrastructure Projects
in Medium and Large Cities in Developing
Countries, and supported the follow-up actions
set out in the Development Working Group
Report.

§  G20 Labor and Employment Ministers agreed
that a transition to greener economies and new
technologies, in the context of sustainable
development, will lead to the creation of new
occupations and may change skills requirements
for existing jobs.

§  They also welcomed the Business 20's Green
Growth Action Alliance, a new partnership
initiative addressing the estimated $1 trillion
annual shortfall in green infrastructure
investment.

§  Ministers recommended encouraging ﬁrms to
adapt their productive and organizational
processes to meet the needs of inclusive green
growth, and looking at measures for improving
labor market information, adapting training
systems and upskilling workers.


Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies

Food security

§  Leaders welcomed the progress report on fossil
fuel subsidies, and reaffirmed their commitment
to rationalize and phase out inefficient fossil fuel
subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption
over the medium term, while providing targeted
support for the poorest.

§  Leaders supported the G20 Agriculture ViceMinisters' Report, recognizing the importance of
increasing agricultural production and
productivity on a sustainable basis, and the need
to adapt agriculture to climate change.

§  Finance Ministers will report back by the next
Summit on progress made, and will explore
options for a voluntary peer review process for
G20 members by their next meeting.
Clean energy and energy efficiency:
§  Following the commitment in Cannes to promote
low-carbon development strategies, Leaders
welcomed the report on clean energy and energy
efficiency technologies and acknowledged G20
countries' efforts to foster investment in these
technologies through the sharing of national
experiences.

§  The work of International Organizations in
producing a report on "Sustainable Agricultural
Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for
Small Family Farms" was also recognized.
§  The report offers recommendations on areas
where countries could focus their efforts to
increase agricultural output with an emphasis on
small family farms.


Inside G20: Inclusive Green Growth Workshop (Summary)


Inclusive Green Growth Workshop
§ 

The purpose of the workshop was to expand the G20 Development Working Group’s (DWG) dialogue with
representatives from developing countries, especially low-income developing countries, on the lessons
learned from their own experiences in designing and implementing inclusive green growth strategies.

§ 

The workshop provided the opportunity to examine in-depth the practical application and experiences on
the ground with the implementation of some of the speciﬁc tools highlighted in the Annex to the G20 report
“A Toolkit of Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green Growth” or “IGG Toolkit Report”. The workshop
promoted the sharing of experiences on strategies, policies and instruments for inclusive green growth and
presented the state of play of the Dialogue Platform on Inclusive Green Investment (DPIGI).

§ 

The discussion contributed to advancing the DWG’s objectives in three respects:
–  Enhance developing country’s engagement in the G20 IGG work;
–  Enhance understanding among policymakers in developing countries of the practical dimensions to
applying IGG tools, as well as needs from developing countries;
–  Explore how the international co-operation can support developing countries in transitioning to the
green growth path.

§ 

This workshop was organised by the OECD with input from the other International Organisations (AfDB, UN,
World Bank) at the request of the Russian Presidency and other G20 members. Many G20 members
attended along with ten developing country representatives: Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Moldova, Mozambique, Philippines, Rwanda, Vietnam, and the Minister of Energy in Sierra Leone.
Source: G20 Development Working Group Workshop on Inclusive Green Growth


Summary of Discussion
Discussion highlighted some common starting
points and key questions:
§  Emphasis on “inclusive”, poverty reduction and
quality of growth. Country examples that this is
possible e.g. from Sierra Leone and Cambodia
§  Sharing experience on “how to do things
differently” and choices about “how to develop”
in a forward looking way
§  IGG Toolkit is a useful and living document to
build on country experience
§  How does IGG fit into national development
planning? (Examples raised by Ethiopia, Rwanda,
Mozambique)
§  Recognition that a mix of public and ODA
financing is needed to leverage private finance to
implement green growth related investments.
§  What are the most appropriate financial vehicles
and de-risking instruments to mobilize
institutional investors for IGG?


Key challenges include:
§  Lack of capacity for domestic policy reform and
processes
§  Addressing structural change and cluster
industries (e.g. Sierra Leone, Vietnam)
§  Risk perceptions, policy predictability and access
to finance (Vietnam, Rwanda, Philippines,
Moldova)
§  Delivering green jobs and human resource skills
development (e.g. Mozambique)


The way forward on Inclusive Green Growth in the G20
Some common parts of country efforts to advance
inclusive green growth:
§  Leadership is needed, combined with bottom-up
engagement, to customise strategies and
policies to local needs.
§  There is no “one size fits all”
§  Essential to mainstream green growth into
development planning and to raise awareness
through cross-Ministry efforts and engagement
with regions, localities and private sector
§  Innovative financial approaches that can be
scaled up and/or replicated e.g. budgetary
commitments (Ethiopia), use of remittances
(Moldova), mix of donor, domestic and private
finance (Philippines, Moldova).


Some key tools presented by LIC representatives
§  Greening national development plans and public
budgets, use of SEA, land use planning (e.g.
Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Cambodia,
Rwanda)
§  Natural resource accounting and valuation (e.g.
Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Cambodia,
Rwanda)
§  Greening domestic tax systems, use of market
finance (e.g. CDM, Vietnam, Ethiopia).
§  Policies and measures to mobilise investment,
e.g. South African SRI from pension funds in
clean energy infrastructure, FITs in Kenya.
§  Assessing labour/employment impacts and
targeting skills and human capacity development
(e.g. Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Dominican
Republic)


What can the G20 do?
§  Timely support for:
–  Country level planning, coordination and mainstreaming of green growth, including
enhanced participation of the private sector and other key stakeholders.
–  Regional, South-South and triangular co-operation and lesson sharing to develop
capacity on green growth
–  Financing for green growth, including international public development finance but also
domestic public and private sources, support for domestic funds created by developing
countries
–  Engaging the institutional investors community to scale up green investment by
recalibrating financial returns to incorporate development benefits
–  Green research co-operation and technology transfer and increased knowledge sharing
and access to information.



Case Study: Green Growth Forum


The Idea: Green Growth Forum

Idea
• 

Promoting the interaction between
politics, economy and the academic
sector

• 

Elaborating political proposals for the
G20 nations

• 

Green Growth Forum

Gathering relevant research findings
for the G20 agenda

• 

Transparent transfer of the gathered
information to governments

• 

This idea will be applied in March
2013 in Berlin during the first Green
Growth Forum

• 

The Green Growth Forum focuses on
the following topics:
1. 

Energy reform and efficiency

2. 

Climate change

3. 

Sustainable development

• 

Experts from the political, economical
and academic areas will draft a
proposal

• 

Key positions will be forwarded to
the political actors

• 

The aim of the forum is to generate
new ideas and solution-oriented
approaches

Summary
Concept
•  Experts in the areas of energy reform, climate change and sustainable development work in
teams in order to draft proposals aimed at the Federal government while considering the
German G20 policy.
•  The relevance of the proposals is guaranteed by the fact that the topics are previously
deﬁned by the corresponding departments of the Federal government.
•  The partcipants are free to present new, innovative proposals, which go beyond the
established topics given by the Federal government.

Target
Ø  Preparation of a position paper on Green Growth for German government for upcomming G20 Summit in
Russia. Strenghtening the dialogue between the academic sector, the private sector, civil society and the
Federal government.

Implementation
Agenda

Energy reform
•  Objective debate

Climate change

Sustainable development
•  Competitive national
market structure in the
energy sector

•  Handling consequences of
climate change

•  Objective indicator system
•  Prevention
•  Framework for long term
research

•  International coordination
of the market

•  Insurance

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Within one day the
committees will draft the
proposal, which will
present recommendations
for the corresponding
topic.

Each comittee will have
10 participants and will
be structured as
following:

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1 Moderator (Scholar from the
corresponding area)
5 Company representatives
1-2 NGO representatives
1-2 Scholars
1-2 Government
representatives

Schedule

09:00

Welcome speech

09:30
12:00

Speeches and panel discussion:
„Green Growth as a key economy driver or a

12:00

Lunch

13:00
15:00

Committee work (Energy reform, climate
change and sustainable development)

15:00

Coﬀee break

15:15
17:00

Committee work

17:30

Closing presentation and results

18:30

Closing speech

Peter Altmeier, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Dr. Ignacio Campino, DESERTEC Foundation

solution to overcome the energy crisis of the
G20 countries“

Dr. Stephan Mair, BDI - Federation of German Industry
Nathalie Girouard, OECD; H.E. Francisco González, Mexican
Ambassador, H.E. Vladimir Grinin, Russian Ambassador, H.E.
Peter Tesch, Australian Ambassador, Representatives of
German Federal Government.

The participants will already have worked on their positions
before the forum, in order to just perfect these ideas and
achieve a consensus through the discussion.

Wolfgang Scheremet, Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology
Bernhard Welschke, BDI – Federation of German Industry
Keynote speech: Prof. Dr. Dr. Radermacher, Club of Rome

Green Growth Forum 2013, Berlin

Honorable guest of Green Growth Forum with members of G20
Foundation, Marco Stephan, Victor Philippenko and Robert Pﬂaum

Panel discussion “Green Growth as a key economic driver or a
solution to overcome the energy crisis of G20 countries” with
Dr. W. Scheremet (Federal Ministry for Economic Aﬀairs and
Technology), , N. Girouard (OECD), F. González Diaz (Mexican
Ambassador), E. Johns (Australian Embassy), moderated by
Dr. G. Hofmann (Agentur Zukunft)

Participants of Green Growth Forum during
welcome note of Dr. Stefan Mair, Member of
the Executive Board and B20 Sherpa of
Association of German Industry (BDI)

Thrilling discussion
in the working
groups of Green
Growth Forum


Participants
Representattives from companies

Representatives from organizations


Our next steps


The Australian G20 Presidency
§ 

The challenge for the G20 in 2014 will be to make
concrete decisions and take real steps that will
improve people’s lives through stronger growth,
more jobs and better infrastructure. As Australia
holds the chair of the G20 in 2014, the Honorable
Tony Abbott MP, Prime minister of Australia is
asking the world leaders to come to Brisbane with a
commitment to take action.

§ 

We support the Australian Prime minister in his
appeal and underline the importance of developing
and emerging economies working together, as well
as igniting partnership between governments, and
the G20 stakeholders.*

§ 

Oﬃcial Logo of the Australian G20 Presidency

We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation with
Australian Presidency and Outreach Groups in 2014!

* Inspired by the message from the Prime minister Honorable Tony Abbott
regarding Australian Presidency in the G20

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accept donations and other
contributions. Please do not hesitate
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within the meaning of § 52 Abs. 2 No. 7, international attitude, tolerance in all areas of culture and international understanding and exchange between
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