Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building
This report is about Romania's committment to the development of a low carbon and green growth path, making green growth and action on climate change a national priority. The Government of Romania is undoubtedly committed to fulfilling the req...
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This report is about Romania's
committment to the development of a low carbon and green
growth path, making green growth and action on climate
change a national priority. The Government of Romania is
undoubtedly committed to fulfilling the requirements of the
UN and EU for combating climate change. However, a serious
impediment to effective Climate Change (CC )action is the
fact that CC is a cross-sectoral policy implemented by the
Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests (MEWF) but MEWF
only has authority over a fraction of the relevant issues.
It is encouraging that the Government of Romania both
acknowledges the need for improving the cross-sectoral
integration of CC policies and actions, and views this as
part of its overall effort to address its dysfunctional
horizontal policy-making processes and improve its public
administration management. Co-ordination and synergy with
all existing national efforts to improve administrative
capacity will be essential for efficient implementation of
the Low Carbon Green Growth Program (LCGGP) in Romania.
However, CC expertise still remains extremely limited at the
operational level and this impacts all aspects and levels of
CC policymaking and the capacity for future planning. The
followinga are the recommendations made; (i) the current
situation and areas for improvement in the capacity of
implementing National Climate Change Strategy have been
analysed and have led to a number of clear recommendations
for institutional capacity building; (ii) in order for CC
policy to be effective in Romania it must be treated as both
a national priority and a cross-sectorial responsibility.
National authorities must claim ownership of the CC issue;
and (iii) a more inclusive and informed policy-making
process is needed, and this can only occur when more of the
stakeholders are involved and made aware of the extensive CC
implications for their individual sectors; (iv) A key
recommendation is therefore the creation of a Climate
Partners Network (CPN) constructed on the basis of a
public-private partnership; (v) Entrenched practices and
attitudes need to be changed. CC must have higher visibility
and remain consistently on the public agenda, instead of
emerging only briefly after a disaster, and it is
recommended that the nexus of the coordination and
implementation of CC policy should be a reformed National
Commission for Climate Change (NCCC); (vi) all recommended
actions will rely on increasing the public’s level of
awareness, engagement, and participation; (vii) In the
medium-long term, strategy implementation will need to be
accompanied by changes to the educational system; and (vii)
monitoring and evaluation processes will need to provide the
fodder for policy adjustments based on scientific research,
national priorities and market needs. Finally, in order to
create effective capacity building measures, CC will need to
be treated as national priority, comprehensively integrated
into all levels of policymaking and budgets planning. |
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building |
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building |
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building |
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Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building |
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okr-10986-240642021-04-23T14:04:19Z Romania Toward a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy : Institutional Capacity Building World Bank CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY VISIBILITY GREENHOUSE EMISSION INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS PUBLIC POLICY CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES POLICY PROCESS POLICY TARGETS POLICIES CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE POLICIES CLIMATE ACTION REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY-MAKING CARBON POLICY MAKING IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY MAKERS CAPACITY GHG CLIMATE FORESTS INVESTMENTS EMISSIONS CARBON ECONOMY NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES INCENTIVES EMISSION REDUCTION EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE GASES MARKET ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE NATIONAL CLIMATE ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK POLICY FINANCE GREENHOUSE GASES IMPACT OF CLIMATE ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY This report is about Romania's committment to the development of a low carbon and green growth path, making green growth and action on climate change a national priority. The Government of Romania is undoubtedly committed to fulfilling the requirements of the UN and EU for combating climate change. However, a serious impediment to effective Climate Change (CC )action is the fact that CC is a cross-sectoral policy implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests (MEWF) but MEWF only has authority over a fraction of the relevant issues. It is encouraging that the Government of Romania both acknowledges the need for improving the cross-sectoral integration of CC policies and actions, and views this as part of its overall effort to address its dysfunctional horizontal policy-making processes and improve its public administration management. Co-ordination and synergy with all existing national efforts to improve administrative capacity will be essential for efficient implementation of the Low Carbon Green Growth Program (LCGGP) in Romania. However, CC expertise still remains extremely limited at the operational level and this impacts all aspects and levels of CC policymaking and the capacity for future planning. The followinga are the recommendations made; (i) the current situation and areas for improvement in the capacity of implementing National Climate Change Strategy have been analysed and have led to a number of clear recommendations for institutional capacity building; (ii) in order for CC policy to be effective in Romania it must be treated as both a national priority and a cross-sectorial responsibility. National authorities must claim ownership of the CC issue; and (iii) a more inclusive and informed policy-making process is needed, and this can only occur when more of the stakeholders are involved and made aware of the extensive CC implications for their individual sectors; (iv) A key recommendation is therefore the creation of a Climate Partners Network (CPN) constructed on the basis of a public-private partnership; (v) Entrenched practices and attitudes need to be changed. CC must have higher visibility and remain consistently on the public agenda, instead of emerging only briefly after a disaster, and it is recommended that the nexus of the coordination and implementation of CC policy should be a reformed National Commission for Climate Change (NCCC); (vi) all recommended actions will rely on increasing the public’s level of awareness, engagement, and participation; (vii) In the medium-long term, strategy implementation will need to be accompanied by changes to the educational system; and (vii) monitoring and evaluation processes will need to provide the fodder for policy adjustments based on scientific research, national priorities and market needs. Finally, in order to create effective capacity building measures, CC will need to be treated as national priority, comprehensively integrated into all levels of policymaking and budgets planning. 2016-04-14T21:52:58Z 2016-04-14T21:52:58Z 2015-12-31 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26048884/romania-toward-low-carbon-climate-resilient-economy-institutional-capacity-building http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24064 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Romania |