an insight to green growth & resource productivity environment statistics training workshop,...

An insight to Green Growth & Resource Productivity

Environment Statistics Training Workshop, Doha, 23-25 September 2012

Adriana Oropeza Lliteras

VII

Why Green Growth in Qatar?

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21, 2012 Qatar joined sixteen other industrialized, emerging economies and developing countries in signing the Agreement on the Establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute

DefinitionTargetsIndicators

8.1 OECD’s Strategy & Indicators

...fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that the natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies”.

What is Green Growth?

Productivity and Innovation

Resource scarcity

OECD. “Towards Green Growth”, OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, 2011.5

Economic opportunities

GG OECD’s Indicators

Natural asset base

Environmental

quality of life

Environmental and resource

productivity

GG OECD’s Indicators

Environmental and

resource productivity

Carbon  and energy

productivity

Resource: materials, nutrients,

water

Multi-factor productivity

Natural asset base

GG OECD’s Indicators

Renewable stocks: resources

Non renewable stocks

Biodiversity and ecosystem

GG OECD’s Indicators

Environmental health and risks

Environmental  services and

amenities

Environmental

quality of life

GG OECD’s Indicators

Economic opportunities

Environmental goods &

services

International financial

flows

Prices and transfers

Skills and training

Regulations and

management

approaches

Technology and

innovation

“Low Carbon Green Growth”

8.2 Korea’s Green Growth vision

Mitigation of Climate change

Creation of new growth engines

Improvement of quality of life

Strengthen energy design standards

Green building certification

Energy consumption statistics system

Integrated transit centers

Carbon labelling

Water and Green Growth

Or the new Eco-efficiency

8.3 Resource Productivity

Green growth /Resource productivity: options for Qatar

 Building energy efficiency Food waste Municipal water leakage Urban densification Irrigation techniques Transport efficiency Urban water leakage Environmental housing (water, energy, wastes) Industrial energy efficiency motors systems Grid integration Wastewater reuse Wastes to energy