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.
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LD2: Achieving a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:
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First and foremost, we must recognise that Zimbabwe is not only recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. We are recovering from cyclone Idai and other natural disasters, and economic and development challenges.
9. The most critical sectors, particularly for vulnerable and marginalised groups are energy, water resource management, waste management, agriculture, and transport. These are also sectors with incredible potential for decent green jobs.
10. Locally-led and locally-owned practices and principles, gender-responsiveness, youth-responsiveness, and green recovery without greenwashing.
11. Rather than solely focusing on specific jobs, we should identify sectors which are both critical and display great opportunities for greening and climate resiliency, namely: agriculture, WASH, energy, waste management, transport, and resource-intensive industry. The green skills needed are TRUE entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, ethical leadership, active and lifelong learning, deep focus, technical and digital skills, and innovation.
Government largely needs to deliver high-quality context-relevant education that is not limited to regurgitating knowledge but allows for transfer of skills. Additionally, it needs to create an environment in which high-productivity work-based learning and apprenticeships are accessible to those who need them most.
Business needs to offer work-based learning opportunities that incentivise young people in particular to formalise their careers. In addition, they must offer the social protections that are required of decent work.
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Question 8. The effects of climate change are largely common, but nuanced in some respects. Understanding the effects is gendered, culture-specific and relative to different communities. The voices of women in remote districts of the country often get marginalized in these discourses. Women, as a community, do not have as much access to opportunities that come with transition efforts that are being made. For example, irrigation schemes that are being set-up or revived in Masvingo province tend to be dominated by men. A broad understanding of the effects of climate change and the attendant new forms of marginalization that come with it is therefore helpful, but a nuanced approach would lead more to community-specific solutions. In all this, community journalism should be capacitated to help tell the story.
Many thanks for that insightful comment Natalie!
Especially linking the different crises to each other. Do you also have additional suggestions on how to scale up current promising sustainable and inclusive practices?
Emelie Isaksen Absolutely! First we need to achieve critical mass, specifically raising awareness to the point that we have a self-sustaining climate-conscious economy and society. Second, we need to ensure that sustainability and inclusivity is linked with profitability rather than exploitation and exclusionary practices being linked with profitability. That means ensuring that sustainable and inclusive practices are analysed inclusive of their positive externalities while exploitative and exclusionary practices include their negative health, environmental, and social costs in their market value. Third, we need to get better about showcasing the positive and transformative impacts of sustainable and inclusive practices.