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ContextIssues in Asia-Pacific Economic growth pattern– high resource and carbon
intensity Underinvestment in natural capital – resource depletion How to sustain economic growth trajectories
Response Green Growth has been adopted as
one of the regional strategies for achieving sustainable development
Endorsed and adopted during the 5th and 6th Ministerial Conferences on Environment and Development for Asia and the Pacific
What is Green Growth?“A policy focus for Asia and the Pacific that emphasizes
environmentally sustainable economic progress to foster low‐carbon, socially inclusive development.”
Green Growth Paths: Investment in Natural Capital and Eco-and Resource Efficiency
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Green Tax and Budget Reform
Sustainable Infrastructure
Greening of Business
Green Growth Capacity DevelopmentDescription
• Emphasizes policies, tools, and techniques tailored to the Asia-Pacific context
• Building individual and organizational capabilities to ensure Green Growth goals can be defined and realized at the national level
Objectives• Introduce green growth as an approach to address SD
challenges• Application of green growth policies and tools in socio-
economic policy planning
Targets• Ministers and high level officials, middle-level government
officials, private-sector CEOs and decision makers, NGO’s, scientific community and all practitioners/stakeholders involved in transition to green growth
ESCAP Regional GGCD Since 2005; more than 500 policy makers ESCAP and SINGG with partners 10 regional policy dialogues; 10 National and 5 Regional Training of
Trainers Seminars; 6 Leadership Workshops ESCAP ToT and green growth methodology; Sustainable livelihoods at the core of all
tools; Pilot applications in Kazakhstan, Cambodia,
Samoa, Fiji; Mongolia and Lao PDR in the pipeline
What? ESCAP, KOICA, Regional SCP Helpdesk and UK
Government – e-Learning Tools (2009-2010) ESCAP, UK, AIT/UNEP RRC.AP - On-line e-Learning
Facility (2011)
Online version CD Rom version
Online E-learning facilityPhase 1• Map to Green Growth
Low carbon Green Growth Sustainable consumption and production Sustainable infrastructure Green tax and budget reform Greening business
• Interactive and visually appealing flash-based training
• Short quiz
Ecological Inefficiency
Growth and Consumption and Production
Ecological Inefficiency
Growth and Consumption and Production
Ecological Inefficiency
Growth and Consumption and Production
• Total A-P resource use accelerating -35 billion tonnes in 2005• Most important resource – construction minerals -almost 50% of all resources
Asia-Pacific
Rest of world
Domestic material consumption
Source: CSIRO and UNEP Asia Pacific Material Flows database
* primary materialsimported + domestically-extracted, minus exports, covering metal ores, industrial minerals, fossil fuels, construction minerals & biomass
Resource intensity A-P uses > 3 x resources
to produce $1 of GDP, compared to the rest of the world
Resource intensity increasing >> productivity/efficiency declining after 2000
Domestic material consumption intensity
Asia-Pacific
Rest of world
Source: CSIRO and UNEP Asia Pacific Material Flows database
Eco-efficiency Concept
Ecological Inefficiency
Ecological Inefficiency
Growth and Consumption and Production
Ecological Inefficiency
The potential of ETR/GFR:ETR/GFR is the shifting of taxation from ‘goods’ (like income, profits) to ‘bads’ (like resource use and pollution)
Economic impacts
Environmental impacts
ETR Increased output
Higher employment
Less pollution Less resource use
Higher human
well-being
Green innovation Green technology development
Cross Sectoral Linkages
Online E-learning facilityPhase 2 Develop new modules
o Resource efficiency o Livable citieso Payment for Ecosystem serviceso Pro-poor green business o Green technology
• Video and reference library• Case Studies and Good Practices
Online E-learning facilityPhase 3 (TBD)…• New modules :
Livable cities waste for energy sustainable water resources management Low carbon green growth roadmap
• Online Green Growth Community of Practice Web conferencing Forum Toolkits/Idea bank/”How to do” reference library/Good
practices Online blog facility Document collaboration…
Development process
Fundamentals of Green Growth:• Map to Green Growth – ToT
Phase 1
• Resource efficiency/eco-efficiency• Livable and eco-efficient cities• Payment for Ecosystem services• Pro-poor green business• Case studies and video library
Phase 2
• New modules• Online community of practice
Phase3
Who ?- Yesterday?
Who - Tomorrow?
Other partners –
CISRO, IGES, APRSCP
OutcomesImpact
• Enhance regional and global green growth solidarity• Expand the Green Growth community of practitioners;• Green growth policy and knowledge sharing web-space
Certification• “Green Growth Trainer of Trainers” certificate and
member of Green Growth Champions network
Partnerships with• GG/GE Initiatives – SINGG, Astana GB Initiative• Knowledge based networks – CISRO, IGES, SWITCH-
ASIA-PSC and SWITCH-ASIA Network Facility• Learning Institutions - UNITAR, UNU, Pacific University• Networks of practitioners – APSCP, GPN, CSR-Asia,
Consumer International, etc