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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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | 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 |
| Summary: | 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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