This report is about Romania'scommittment to the development of a low carbon and greengrowth path, making green growth and action on climatechange a national priority. The Government of Romania isundoubtedly committed to fulfilling the requirements of theUN and EU for combating climate change. However, a seriousimpediment to effective Climate Change (CC )action is thefact that CC is a cross-sectoral policy implemented by theMinistry of Environment, Waters and Forests (MEWF) but MEWFonly has authority over a fraction of the relevant issues.It is encouraging that the Government of Romania bothacknowledges the need for improving the cross-sectoralintegration of CC policies and actions, and views this aspart of its overall effort to address its dysfunctionalhorizontal policy-making processes and improve its publicadministration management. Co-ordination and synergy withall existing national efforts to improve administrativecapacity will be essential for efficient implementation ofthe Low Carbon Green Growth Program (LCGGP) in Romania.However, CC expertise still remains extremely limited at theoperational level and this impacts all aspects and levels ofCC policymaking and the capacity for future planning. Thefollowinga are the recommendations made; (i) the currentsituation and areas for improvement in the capacity ofimplementing National Climate Change Strategy have beenanalysed and have led to a number of clear recommendationsfor institutional capacity building; (ii) in order for CCpolicy to be effective in Romania it must be treated as botha national priority and a cross-sectorial responsibility.National authorities must claim ownership of the CC issue;and (iii) a more inclusive and informed policy-makingprocess is needed, and this can only occur when more of thestakeholders are involved and made aware of the extensive CCimplications for their individual sectors; (iv) A keyrecommendation is therefore the creation of a ClimatePartners Network (CPN) constructed on the basis of apublic-private partnership; (v) Entrenched practices andattitudes need to be changed. CC must have higher visibilityand remain consistently on the public agenda, instead ofemerging only briefly after a disaster, and it isrecommended that the nexus of the coordination andimplementation of CC policy should be a reformed NationalCommission for Climate Change (NCCC); (vi) all recommendedactions will rely on increasing the public’s level ofawareness, engagement, and participation; (vii) In themedium-long term, strategy implementation will need to beaccompanied by changes to the educational system; and (vii)monitoring and evaluation processes will need to provide thefodder for policy adjustments based on scientific research,national priorities and market needs. Finally, in order tocreate effective capacity building measures, CC will need tobe treated as national priority, comprehensively integratedinto all levels of policymaking and budgets planning.
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