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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:
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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. 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
EaP GREEN: Republic Moldova • Assessment • GE Scoping/economi modeling • Harmful subsidies • Economic instruments for products • Indicators Inter-Ministerial Working Group Green Economy Road Map Strategic Environment Assessment Strategic Environment Assessment local master plan SPP Action Plans, Regulations Greening of SME development strategy OA laws, subsidies Industry/SMEs RECP Audits Training Business support Sustainable Public Procurement Training Pilot tenders Organic Agriculture Training Campaign , fair Exports/business support Pilot Tenders for OA
SWITCH-Med Programme is funded by the European Union SwitchMed SCP-NAP process and outputs
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.
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.
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.
Egypt • National Green Economy report as the basis; • outcomes of the economic modelling for the GE assessment developed and adapted to become the foundation for SCP-NAP; • 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; • 28 projects presented by 13 different entities and presented in details in the SCP-NAP; • 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.
Jordan • 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; • SCP-NAP targeted three sectors: Agriculture / Food Production, Transport, and Waste Management ; • 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; • UNEP coordinated “eco-innovation” project is currently being implemented and is in-line with the Jordanian SCP-NAP; • Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to integrate Green Economy and SCP in sectors for comprehensive National Green Growth Strategy and work-plan.