GEC Steering Group, Wednesday 24th June 2020– MINUTES: decisions and ACTIONS

The GEC Steering Group reviewed four strategic priorities, all of which were downgraded to 'amber' status due to the challenges and increased expectations brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group evaluated two major programmes: 'Economics for Nature' and the 'EC dialogues programme', emphasizing the need for better governance and integration with the GEC's COVID-19 campaign. The Steering Group unanimously decided that the GEC must launch a COVID-19 intervention, focusing on structural economic reforms and societal demand for a green recovery, while noting the need for additional funding to avoid unrealistic expectations.

• The GEC downgraded the status of all four of its strategic priorities to 'amber' because the COVID-19 crisis requires a 'collective ramping up' to achieve transformative recovery policy and engagement with social movements.
• The 'Economics for Nature' programme, funded by MAVA and running for six years, aims to integrate natural capital into green economies and has worked with 13 governments to improve their understanding of natural capital.
• The EC dialogues programme has established a network of hubs in India, Mongolia, Uganda, South Africa, Senegal, the Caribbean, and Peru to create civil society spaces for inclusive national green economy policy making.
• The Steering Group unanimously agreed that the GEC must intervene during the COVID-19 pandemic, proposing a campaign that targets both national structural reforms and global processes such as the CBD, COP, G7, and G20.
• The GEC identifies a risk of raising 'unrealistic expectations' regarding its COVID-19 campaign because the organization is project-funded and requires additional resources to execute a significant intervention.
• COVID-19 had limited direct negative impacts on GEC programmes, except for hubs lacking home-working equipment, such as the new Brazil hub, but it accelerated the use of inclusive online working models like the Africa Forum.

APA

Green Economy Coalition (2020). GEC Steering Group, Wednesday 24th June 2020– MINUTES: decisions and ACTIONS. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Governance-Docs/GEC-SG-24th-June-2020-MINUTES-doc.pdf

Chicago

Green Economy Coalition. GEC Steering Group, Wednesday 24th June 2020– MINUTES: decisions and ACTIONS. 2020. https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Governance-Docs/GEC-SG-24th-June-2020-MINUTES-doc.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greeneconomycoalition2020gec, author = {{Green Economy Coalition}}, title = {{GEC Steering Group, Wednesday 24th June 2020– MINUTES: decisions and ACTIONS}}, institution = {Green Economy Coalition}, year = {2020}, month = jun, url = {https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/assets/reports/Governance-Docs/GEC-SG-24th-June-2020-MINUTES-doc.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }