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