1. Green Growth Capacity Development
Online e-Learning Facility
Aneta Nikolova, EDD, ESCAP

2. Context Issues in Asia-Pacific Response
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

3. What is Green Growth? Green Growth Paths:
“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

4. Green Growth Capacity Development
Description
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

5. 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

6. What? Online version CD Rom version
ESCAP, KOICA, Regional SCP Helpdesk and UK Government – e-Learning Tools ( )
ESCAP, UK, AIT/UNEP RRC.AP - On-line e-Learning Facility (2011)
Online version CD Rom version

7. Online E-learning facility
Phase 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

8. Growth and Consumption and Production
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

9. Growth and Consumption and Production
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

10. Growth and Consumption and Production
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

11. Domestic material consumption
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
* primary materials
imported + domestically-extracted,
minus exports, covering metal ores,
industrial minerals, fossil fuels,
construction minerals & biomass
Total Asian and Pacific resource use is accelerating – 35 billion tonnes in The most important resource of all is construction minerals.
Almost 50 % of the resource use is for infrastructure development
Source: CSIRO and UNEP Asia Pacific Material Flows database 11

12. Domestic material consumption intensity
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
In 2005, the Asian and Pacific region used 3x the resources of the rest of the world to produce the same amount of GDP.
Resource intensity is increasing – this means that resource efficiency or productivity was declining after 2000.
If these trends continue we can expect that total resource use will continue to accelerate.
Source: CSIRO and UNEP Asia Pacific Material Flows database 12

13. Eco-efficiency Concept
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

14. Growth and Consumption and Production
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

15. Ecological Inefficiency
Efficiency of resource use is one of the important variables for computing market price in the current economic system. This price, however, does not reflect the full costs of the processing of inputs (natural resources) and outputs (wastes, effluents, emissions). For instance, the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source directly results in a failure of the self-regulatory mechanisms of the natural system
Ecological Inefficiency

16. The potential of ETR/GFR: ETR/GFR is the shifting of taxation from ‘goods’ (like income, profits) to ‘bads’ (like resource use and pollution)

17. Cross Sectoral Linkages

18. Online E-learning facility
Phase 2
Develop new modules
Resource efficiency
Livable cities
Payment for Ecosystem services
Pro-poor green business
Green technology
Video and reference library
Case Studies and Good Practices

19. Online E-learning facility
Phase 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…

20. Development process Phase3 Phase 2 Phase 1 New modules
Online community of practice
Phase3
Resource efficiency/eco-efficiency
Livable and eco-efficient cities
Payment for Ecosystem services
Pro-poor green business
Case studies and video library
Phase 2
Fundamentals of Green Growth:
Map to Green Growth – ToT
Phase 1

21. Who ?- Yesterday?

22. Other partners – CISRO, IGES, APRSCP
Who - Tomorrow?
Other partners – CISRO, IGES, APRSCP

23. Outcomes Impact Certification Partnerships with
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