The following guiding questions are aligned to each of the three main Leadership Dialogues planned for the Stockholm+50 meeting and will be integrated into the overall consultation agenda and report. Please refer to the question number in your comment.
LD2: Achieving a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:
What are the most promising sustainable and inclusive recovery practices currently being applied by public, private and civil society groups at individual, community, city, regional, country level? And how could we scale them up?
What recovery and pre-existing practises need to be changed to ensure an inclusive and sustainable recovery?
How do we ensure that all countries/communities can benefit from opportunities stemming from a sustainable and just transition?
How can we create better performing industries and supply chains for a just transition to more sustainable economies? which sectors are most critical?
What are some of the commitments and “responsible” principles that need to be made by key industry sectors and by finance and investment institutions?
What are the decent green jobs of the future? What are the new skills needed, what is needed from business? from government? from academia?
Hello! Please share your thoughts below by creating an account and posting a comment - you can think of it a little bit like a facebook comment section. You can respond to and add to other people's comments as well as add your own, once posted, other people can like and respond to yours!
All ideas, thoughts and insights shared in this discussion will be compiled and used in a national report for Samoa. This report will directly feed into discussions and reports being produced at the high level international environmental meeting that is taking place in Sweden in June - Stockholm +50.
We are very much looking forward to following the discussions going forward!
Question 6: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it was really fantastic to see a strengthened commitment by Government to ensuring inclusive communication, particularly sign language translation, during state of emergency press conferences. However, the quality and regularity of this service is still not streamlined throughout all emergency communications, and this will also need to extend to recovery efforts. The scaling and mainstreaming of the provision of inclusive and accessible information and communication throughout multi-level humanitarian mechanisms is essential, as Samoa continues its recovery efforts from COVID-19 and maintains preparedness initiatives to address future disasters.
Question - What are the decent green jobs of the future? What are the new skills needed, what is needed from business? from government? from academia?
Answer - Decent green jobs are the future are in promoting and organizing online digital programs like GIS, Strata and R. We need to promote and enable the future generations to synthesize data and to put in to report and documents. We also need to focus on building green entrepreneurship, to encourage people to build encourage people to combat the effects of climate change through successful green companies.
For academia, it is important for them to not only educate their students in the classroom, but also outside of the classroom in nature and to teach them practical skills that they can use outside of the classroom too.
From government, they need to support green jobs that are well paid and have benefits. Governments need to support green climate jobs that have a direct impact on the public.
Question 10 - What are some of the commitments and “responsible” principles that need to be made by key industry sectors and by finance and investment institutions?
Answer - In order to address and have proper investment institutions, we need to have clear climate finance guidelines. Financial resources and sound investments are needed to address climate change, to both reduce emissions, promote adaptation to the impacts that are already occurring, and to build resilience. Many investors, as well as banks and companies, continue to underestimate the risks of climate change and are still making short-sighted decisions to expand investment into carbon-intensive assets. One of the primary ways to break the link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic activity is to change the energy supply mix, transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.
By investing in adequate forms of renewable energy, it will hope countries not to be exposed to economic shocks, and for them to be more self-reliant when oil and gas prices are increased.
Question- what are decent green job of the future. what are the new skills needed, what is needed from businesses needed from Government, academia.
Answer: The impact of Climate change has been felt across all countries and nations and it is a clear indication for Government shift from the business as usual case to a gender responsive adaptation and mitigation to clean, green/blue economies for sustainable development. through the following ways;
The government needs to adopt inclusive green/blue economy strategies
invest in skilling female and males for green jobs in different sectors of the economy = the skill sets needed for gender responsive mitigation and adaption in the green/blue economy especially skills in clean modern technology, digital platforms, renewable energy, climate smart agriculture, etc.
invest in renewable energy with efficiency and attract private sector investment in renewable energy that is accessible to the most vulnerable populations especially women, youth, PWD and elderly
marketing green jobs that are decent, inclusive, with equal access to females and males in the country.
The academia needs to invest in new research areas that promote gender responsive green job and publish new theories of change for inclusive sustainable development with evidence that is accessible to females and males in the communities/countries
Question 7: what recovery and pre-existing practices need to be changed to ensure inclusive and sustainable recovery.
COVID 19 pandemic has shown the world how unequal our societies are; inequalities between countries and within regions and within rural and urban divide were clear- with glaring gender inequalities where the majority of women who are in the informal sector suffered more than men in the formal sector; additionally many women and girls are not even safe in there own homes- during the lockdown in many countries cases of GBV increased 3 to 5 fold which is very sad. women and girls deserve to be free from violence and be treated equally. female are the majority of nurses that impacted on them.
For the recovery to be inclusive we need the following:
Address the social norms and create transformative change for women and girls to participate in political, social and economic activities
involve females and males in designing new projects/programmes so that gender needs for women and men are reflected in development programming
address the informal sector issue and make formal sector accessible for women and girls
skilling- need to offer new skill sets for the females and males in the emerging sectors especially e-health, digital technology, blue and green economy etc.
social protection- develop gender responsive social protection systems that covers the most vulnerable population like women in the informal sector, the elderly, PWD, unemployed etc.
address the issue of the unpaid care work- by promotion of equal distribution of care work at households, offer care centers for children and elders, free women from time poverty so that women can equally participate in economic activities.
Government should offer gender responsive policy frameworks for private sector for inclusive and sustainable development
Question 8: How do we ensure that all countries/communities can benefit from opportunities stemming from a sustainable and just transition? Since the question involves all countries and communities, it is crucial that all countries and communities are involved right from the beginning. Not half-way through or at some stage of the the process. The buy-in of all countries and communities is integral to the success of whatever opportunities are on offer. Secondly, the opportunities resulting in a sustainable and just transition must be relevant to all the countries and communities and not to only some. Ensuring that all countries and communities benefit from opportunities will require total commitment from all the world countries. A lot of coordination is needed where human resources, materials, funding, equipment, systems, etc are required to ensure that the opportunities are accessible by all layers of society.
Question 6 : What are the most promising sustainable and inclusive recovery practices currently being applied by public, private and civil society groups at individual, community, city, regional, country level? And how could we scale them up?
For Samoa at the country level;
Government has continued awareness programmes in communities on health as well as gender-based violence and violence against children aggravated by socioeconomic pressures.
Despite travel restrictions, the government has supported the continuing operation of labour mobility and seasonal worker schemes of Australia and New Zealand, which saw movement of around 10,000 workers to and from Samoa since the onset of the pandemic
There were stimulus packages
As already mentioned by Def Association representative above, inclusive communication during state of emergency press conferences are applied
How do we scale them up?
Upscale strategies for social and economic inclusion in the recovery period and give thorough consideration to the informal sector, which is a major source of income for vulnerable people.
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Hello! Please share your thoughts below by creating an account and posting a comment - you can think of it a little bit like a facebook comment section. You can respond to and add to other people's comments as well as add your own, once posted, other people can like and respond to yours!
All ideas, thoughts and insights shared in this discussion will be compiled and used in a national report for Samoa. This report will directly feed into discussions and reports being produced at the high level international environmental meeting that is taking place in Sweden in June - Stockholm +50.
We are very much looking forward to following the discussions going forward!
Question 6: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, it was really fantastic to see a strengthened commitment by Government to ensuring inclusive communication, particularly sign language translation, during state of emergency press conferences. However, the quality and regularity of this service is still not streamlined throughout all emergency communications, and this will also need to extend to recovery efforts. The scaling and mainstreaming of the provision of inclusive and accessible information and communication throughout multi-level humanitarian mechanisms is essential, as Samoa continues its recovery efforts from COVID-19 and maintains preparedness initiatives to address future disasters.
Question - What are the decent green jobs of the future? What are the new skills needed, what is needed from business? from government? from academia?
Answer - Decent green jobs are the future are in promoting and organizing online digital programs like GIS, Strata and R. We need to promote and enable the future generations to synthesize data and to put in to report and documents. We also need to focus on building green entrepreneurship, to encourage people to build encourage people to combat the effects of climate change through successful green companies.
For academia, it is important for them to not only educate their students in the classroom, but also outside of the classroom in nature and to teach them practical skills that they can use outside of the classroom too.
From government, they need to support green jobs that are well paid and have benefits. Governments need to support green climate jobs that have a direct impact on the public.
Question 10 - What are some of the commitments and “responsible” principles that need to be made by key industry sectors and by finance and investment institutions?
Answer - In order to address and have proper investment institutions, we need to have clear climate finance guidelines. Financial resources and sound investments are needed to address climate change, to both reduce emissions, promote adaptation to the impacts that are already occurring, and to build resilience. Many investors, as well as banks and companies, continue to underestimate the risks of climate change and are still making short-sighted decisions to expand investment into carbon-intensive assets. One of the primary ways to break the link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic activity is to change the energy supply mix, transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.
By investing in adequate forms of renewable energy, it will hope countries not to be exposed to economic shocks, and for them to be more self-reliant when oil and gas prices are increased.
Question- what are decent green job of the future. what are the new skills needed, what is needed from businesses needed from Government, academia.
Answer: The impact of Climate change has been felt across all countries and nations and it is a clear indication for Government shift from the business as usual case to a gender responsive adaptation and mitigation to clean, green/blue economies for sustainable development. through the following ways;
The academia needs to invest in new research areas that promote gender responsive green job and publish new theories of change for inclusive sustainable development with evidence that is accessible to females and males in the communities/countries
Question 7: what recovery and pre-existing practices need to be changed to ensure inclusive and sustainable recovery.
COVID 19 pandemic has shown the world how unequal our societies are; inequalities between countries and within regions and within rural and urban divide were clear- with glaring gender inequalities where the majority of women who are in the informal sector suffered more than men in the formal sector; additionally many women and girls are not even safe in there own homes- during the lockdown in many countries cases of GBV increased 3 to 5 fold which is very sad. women and girls deserve to be free from violence and be treated equally. female are the majority of nurses that impacted on them.
For the recovery to be inclusive we need the following:
Address the social norms and create transformative change for women and girls to participate in political, social and economic activities
involve females and males in designing new projects/programmes so that gender needs for women and men are reflected in development programming
address the informal sector issue and make formal sector accessible for women and girls
skilling- need to offer new skill sets for the females and males in the emerging sectors especially e-health, digital technology, blue and green economy etc.
social protection- develop gender responsive social protection systems that covers the most vulnerable population like women in the informal sector, the elderly, PWD, unemployed etc.
address the issue of the unpaid care work- by promotion of equal distribution of care work at households, offer care centers for children and elders, free women from time poverty so that women can equally participate in economic activities.
Government should offer gender responsive policy frameworks for private sector for inclusive and sustainable development
GBV prevention and response should be part of the development agenda for Governments, CSO, Private sector and Development partners
Question 8: How do we ensure that all countries/communities can benefit from opportunities stemming from a sustainable and just transition? Since the question involves all countries and communities, it is crucial that all countries and communities are involved right from the beginning. Not half-way through or at some stage of the the process. The buy-in of all countries and communities is integral to the success of whatever opportunities are on offer. Secondly, the opportunities resulting in a sustainable and just transition must be relevant to all the countries and communities and not to only some. Ensuring that all countries and communities benefit from opportunities will require total commitment from all the world countries. A lot of coordination is needed where human resources, materials, funding, equipment, systems, etc are required to ensure that the opportunities are accessible by all layers of society.
Question 6 : What are the most promising sustainable and inclusive recovery practices currently being applied by public, private and civil society groups at individual, community, city, regional, country level? And how could we scale them up?
For Samoa at the country level;
How do we scale them up?
Upscale strategies for social and economic inclusion in the recovery period and give thorough consideration to the informal sector, which is a major source of income for vulnerable people.