Policies and projects promoting sustainable development, including the use of safeguards to avoid negative impacts, can increase stakeholder support and public acceptance, increase market value, and raise climate action ambition. The awareness of integrated solutions to climate change and sustainability challenges is growing due to the development of new SDG assessment tools that can help identify how projects and policies can maximize benefits and avoid or mitigate negative impacts. This webinar will help expand this awareness further by offering policymakers and others stakeholders with an introduction to existing and new SDG assessment tools at the project level in Asia.
Agenda
MODERATOR: Karen Holm Olsen, Senior Researcher, UNEP DTU Partnership
Q&A Video
OPENING REMARKS: Eric Zusman, Research Director, IGES
Video
Presentations:
Virender Kumar Duggal, Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB
ADB Co-benefits Assessment Methodology and Tool
Video Slides
Hugh Salway, Head of Environmental Markets, Gold Standard Foundation
SDG Impact Tool for Assessing Contribution towards SDGs
Video Slides
Panel discussion:
Haseeb Bakhtary, Consultant, Climate Focus, Germany
Video
Syeda Hadika Jamshaid, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan
Video
Naoki Matsuo, Principal Policy Researcher, IGES, Japan
Video Slides