Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment, 3-Part Series: Regional Nexus Approaches to Building Back Better
The UN Environment Management Group (EMG), in close collaboration with UNEP, UNEP-FI, UNESCAP, UNECE, UNECA, ECLAC, ESCWA, and RCNYO, will organize a 3-part series of virtual Nexus Dialogues on Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment.
The introductory dialogue Defining Green Recovery aims at pushing the needle forward to frame the rest of the series through stronger operationalization, to effectively monitor, evaluate and verify the impact of recovery and stimulus measures on environmental outcomes.
It is followed by a second dialogue Financing Green Recovery focusing on the important role of the public sector, and fiscal policy, that can support a stronger and greener economic recovery, whilst creating a collaborative and enabling environment for the private sector to mobilize resources to Build Back Better.
Finally, the third dialogue Regional Nexus Approaches to Building Back Better presents case studies on “Regional Acceleration of Climate Action and Decarbonization” and exchanges surrounding nexus thinking and integrated policy-making tools.
There will be three online Nexus Dialogues in the series covering:
- Defining Green Recovery (27 April 2021)
- Financing Green Recovery (4 May 2021)
- Regional Nexus Approaches to Building Back Better (15 June 2021)
Meeting Documents:
Background Documents:
ESCAP
- Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19: ESCAP Framework
- New online series on ‘building back better’; in Asia and Pacific
- Transformative Pathways towards Sustainable Urban Development in the post-COVID19 era
- Are countries in Asia-Pacific initiating a Green Recovery?
- Building back better from crises through regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
- Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: Leaving no country behind
ECA
- COVID-19 in Africa: protecting lives and economies
- ECA Green recovery report including two case studies done jointly with Oxford University and Vivid Economics on RSA and DRC
- Building forward together: financing a sustainable recovery for the future of all
- ECA – Reports and Case Studies
ESCWA
- Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 Poverty and food insecurity in the Arab region
- Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Arab Region an Opportunity to Build Back Better
- The impact of covid-19 on the Water-Scarce Arab region
- Is Food Security in Lebanon under Threat?
- Advancing SDG7 in the Arab Region
- “Assessment of Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Arab Region 2020” produced with inputs from the World Bank’s Office in Beirut and UNEP’s Regional Office for West Asia
ECE
- IBC Summary recommendations for COVID-19 recovery
- Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in the UNECE region
- Water-food-energy-ecosystem nexus
- Sustainable use of natural resources
- IBC Measures to green the post-pandemic recovery
- ECE environmental instruments to respond to the COVID-19 crisis
ECLAC
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