Transcript Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighborhood

Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood
A means for EaP countries to
progress faster on their path to green economy.
EaP GREEN
Helps the EaP countries to move
towards a green economy by
decoupling economic growth from
environmental degradation and
resource depletion through:
Mainstreaming sustainable
consumption and production (SCP)
into national development plans,
legislation and regulatory
frameworks;
Promoting the use of Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA)
and Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) ;
Achieving a sector-level shift to
green economy.
Planning,
policy
integration,
progress
monitoring
Support to
enterprises
Cleaner
production and
resource
efficiency
Economic
instruments,
procurement
and subsidy
reform
Access to
finance
A COHERENT STRATEGY AND
IMPROVED POLICY INCENTIVES
Informed
consumer
choices
Organic
farming
PRIVATE SECTOR ACTION
Productivity and
competitiveness
Business and export
opportunities
Human well being
Resilient ecosystems
GREENER ECONOMIES
Expected outcomes:
•higher productivity thus competitiveness in global
markets,
•better management of natural capital,
•enhanced environmental quality of life,
•more resilient ecosystems and economies alike, and
•new business and export opportunities.
EaP GREEN
Brings together:
six countries of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine,
in particular Ministries of Environment and Ministries of Economy
European Union and other donors
four implementing organisations (OECD, UNECE, UNEP, UNIDO)
Implementation period: 2013-2016
Examples of results: strategies and policies
Regional:
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Sustainable Consumption Production (SCP) policy review
methodologies for green credit lines
consensus report on creating market incentives for greener products
Toolkit for greening SMEs
Armenia
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Incorporation of results of the SME greening analysis to SME strategies and
Green Economy (GE) concept
Azerbaijan
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Draft EIA and SEA legal frameworks based on review of the legal and
institutional frameworks
Belarus
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GE Action Plans (under preparation)
SPP national action plans
Georgia
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Draft law on EIA and SEA (under preparation) based on legal analysis
Green Economy Strategy Development (under discussion)
Moldova
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GE modeling analysis, an inter ministerial working group, GE Action Plans
(under preparation)
SPP Action Plans
Reform of two major environmentally related subsidies agreed
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SEA carried out for the regional development strategies (Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk)
SPP Action plans
Ukraine
Examples of results – pilot and demonstration
project
Regional
• Organic agriculture (OA) market assessments
• Regional RECP technology pocket guides in 3 sectors
• SPP guidelines, tool kits
Armenia
• 11 RECP assessments
• OA workshops , business fair
Azerbaijan
• 15 RECP assessments and 4 RECP clubs
Belarus
• Post project analysis of an transboundary EIA (with Ukraine)
• 25 RECP assessments and RECP clubs in all regions; RECP Center launched
Georgia
• 10 RECP assessments
Moldova
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Ukraine
• Support to OA resultsed in CHF 7.4 million (2015), 10.1 million (2016)
contracts through Biofach
• Development of green growth indicators
• 10 RECP assessments and 2 RECP clubs
SEA for the Orhei town master plans
OA trainings, OA Sunday Market, media campaign,
SPP demonstrations/pilot tender (OA products)
15 RECP assessments and 4 RECP clubs
EaP GREEN: Republic Moldova
Inter-Ministerial Working Group
Strategic
Environment
Assessment
local master
plan
Green Economy Road Map
Strategic Environment
Assessment
SPP Action
Plans,
Regulations
Sustainable
Public
Procurement
Training
Pilot tenders
OA laws,
subsidies
Organic
Agriculture
Training
Campaign , fair
Pilot
Exports/busines
Tenders
s support
for OA
Assessment
• GE Scoping/economi
modeling
• Harmful subsidies
• Economic instruments
for products
• Indicators
Greening of
SME
development
strategy
Industry/SMEs
RECP Audits
Training
Business
support
SwitchMed
SCP-NAP process and
outputs
SWITCH-Med Programme
is funded by the
European Union
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SCP Assessments
 Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and
Tunisia;
 Multi-stakeholder processes (gov., civil society, private
sector, media, academia, international community) validated during technical national workshops;
 Jordan used national GE report as the basis for
developing the SCP national action plan, addressing
national priorities identified in this study, avoiding
duplication of work load.
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SCP- National Action Plans:
 SCP assessments are integral part of the SCP-NAP
process;
 The stakeholders involved in the SCP assessment
process are also involved in designing the SCP-NAP,
enabling some overlap of these processes to save time;
 SCP-NAPs have been developed and validated in
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,
Tunisia and Palestine.
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Outputs:
 SCP-NAPs based on assessments;
 More than 25 multi-stakeholder national SCP
workshops and roundtables organized;
 National capacity on SCP reinforced, engaging over
1500 participants from different ministries, public and
private sector, civil society, academia, media,
international organizations and bi-lateral partners;
 High-level political support for the process resulting in
endorsement of the SCP-NAP output.
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Algeria
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SCP governance framework;
Energy transition and energy efficiency;
Waste and emission management;
Lebanon
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Adopt best available techniques to promote SCP in industrial sector
Introduce SCP approaches related to the industrial sector in policy and
institutional frameworks;
Educate and raise awareness of consumers on SCP in industrial
sector;
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Morocco
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Agriculture and agrifood;
Eco-construction and sustainable buildings;
Palestine
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Sustainable Tourism;
Agriculture and food (including food manufacturing);
Housing and construction
Tunisia
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10year framework action plan for the agrifood sector;
10year framework action plan for the tourism sector;
coordination mechanism for SCP-NAP implementation;
Egypt
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National Green Economy report as the basis;
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outcomes of the economic modelling for the GE assessment
developed and adapted to become the foundation for SCP-NAP;
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SCP-NAP identified the main elements for each of the four priority
sectors (agriculture, energy, water and municipal solid waste),
strategic directions and proposed activities;
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28 projects presented by 13 different entities and presented in
details in the SCP-NAP;
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as demonstration project Egypt has decided to implement an
adapted version of a Public Procurement Project that was
developed as a response to the 10YFP trust fund.
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Jordan
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Development of SCP-NAP was based on the existing national
Green Economy report that is the result of the GE scoping study
conducted in 2011 and covering 6 sectors;
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SCP-NAP targeted three sectors: Agriculture / Food Production,
Transport, and Waste Management ;
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High Level Green Economy Steering Committee (HLGESC) and
ad-hoc Green Economy/SCP committee reporting to HLGESC was
created and a Green Economy Unit in Ministry of Environment;
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UNEP coordinated “eco-innovation” project is currently being
implemented and is in-line with the Jordanian SCP-NAP;
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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to integrate Green Economy
and SCP in sectors for comprehensive National Green Growth
Strategy and work-plan.
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