Rapid economic growth is adding increasing pressure upon the limited ecological carrying capacity of the countries in Asia and the Pacific. However, in order to alleviate the poverty that turns life into a struggle for the 2/3rds of world poor live in Asia and the Pacific, the region has no choice but to continue its economic growth.
In response to the necessity of combining economic growth with environmental sustainability, the countries of Asia and the Pacific have adopted the Green Growth (environmentally sustainable economic growth for the improved well-being of all) approach. Formally this happened during the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (MCED) that was held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in March 2005.
As a follow up to the 5th MCED, UNESCAP is now focusing on advocating and capacity building for the application of important policy measures and tools that can be applied to enhance the environmental suitability of economic growth. The measures and tools are based on sound normative, analytical, and research work in the five areas indicated in the green box below: |
In order to further Green Growth in the region, capacity building activities have been planned in the Strategic Framework Programme for the biennium 2008-2009. However, UNESCAP has already received requests for such activities from Cambodia and Viet Nam. The secretariat thus needs to conduct bridging capacity building activities to fulfill these requests.
Under the project, and based on the needs assessment provided by the requesting countries, the secretariat is now developing training guidelines and material in order to conduct capacity building seminars for decision and policy makers from the Greater Mekong Countries.
The information and training guidelines that are utilized in the capacity building activities are disseminated through here in order to facilitate further diffusion of knowledge and tools for Green Growth.
The first capacity building projects have already taken place respectively in Kazakhstan and in Cambodia and can be browsed using the links further below on this page |
- Promotion of green taxation and budget reform
- Development of sustainable infrastructure
including application of Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA)
- Promotion of sustainable consumption, including demand side management
- “Greening” of the market and promotion of green business
- Development of Eco-efficiency Indicators (EEI)
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Astana, Kazakhstan, 25-26 September 2007
-List of Participants
Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia, 1-4 October 2007
Agenda and links to Presentations:
-Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4-
-List of Participants
-Summary of Recommendations
Hanoi, Viet Nam 12-13 November 2007
Agenda and links to Presentations:
-Day 1 - Day 2
-List of Participants
-Summary of Recommendations |
