Agenda: Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum (GGSD Forum)

This session will focus on distributional impacts of energy sector reform, including impacts associated with fossil fuel subsidy reform, carbon pricing and government incentives for investment in low-carbon and energy efficient technologies, and lessons to be learnt from efforts to assess and address social implications of reform to date. [...] Discussion points: - How will different households be affected by greening the energy sector and can these impacts be quantified? - Will greening the economy raise energy prices and increase energy poverty? - How can governments make sure reforms are fair and do not penalise vulnerable groups? - What has government experience been with response measures to alleviate negative impacts on poorest hou. [...] 13:00-14:30 Lunch (catered) 14:30-18:00 Session 2 Joint session with the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee (ELSAC) and the Committee on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Inclusive labour markets for green growth, national and local perspectives 14:30 Chair: John Atherton, Chair of Co-operative Action Programme on Local Economic and Employ- ment Development (LEED) Keyno. [...] These changes in the sectoral composition of employment and the diffusion of green technologies and work practices across the economy will require new skills of workers. [...] skills gaps, workforce inequalities, challenging labour market transitions and new sources of jobs growth? - How can the labour market actions of different levels of government, unions and employers best be co-ordinated to address these challenges and opportunities, especially taking into account that jobs will not automatically be created in the same places they are lost? Background material: - 2.