National Policy on Green Growth 2013 - 2030
1.
Introduction
The Kingdom of Cambodia has a
legal framework prepared for green growth implementation, including a national
green growth roadmap, Memorandum of Understanding for the cooperation on green
growth with the republic of Korea’s Global Green Growth Institute, Royal Decree
on the Preparation and Functioning of General Secretariat of National Council
on Green Growth (NCGG) and the Law on Allowing the Kingdom of Cambodia a
Membership to an Agreement on the Establishment on the Global Green Growth
Institute (GGGI).
Green Growth is stimulating comprehensive integration of the Kingdom of
Cambodia into a regional framework and the world that helps contribute to
maintaining political and macroeconomic stability, especially the economic
sector, environment, society, and culture progressing simultaneously towards
harmonization, sustainability and balance, as well as enhancement of green
economic growth, which maintains low carbon emission moving towards a society
developed based on low carbon emission serving as a greenhouse reduction
measure, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction in line with RGC’s
goal to reduce poverty by one percent per year.
More than that, the policy aims at contributing to environment
protection, natural resources management, bio diversity and forest
conservation, and maintaining quality of water, soil, and air and efficient
ecosystem safety, and following the direction of the United Nations on “The Future We Want” that the RGC has
been implementing it today in the areas of fishery and forestry sector,
economical use of people’s livelihood and the implementation of New Action Old Policy on Land in order
to keep natural resources for the next generation while at the same time
keeping up with national economic development.
Green growth is to strike balance between economic development and
environment, society, and culture to reach sustainable development goals.
In order to attract financing flows, green technology, and forging
investors, the RGC issues the National Policy on Green Growth with vision,
objectives, and goal and action plan as follows:
2.
Vision
The national policy is envisaged to strike balance of economic
development with environment, society, culture, and sustainable use of national
resources through integration, matching and adaption, as well as harmonization
between a green growth principle and national policy.
3. Goal and Objectives
3.1 Goal
The Policy aims at enhancing the well-being and livelihood of all people in harmonization with ecological safety through green growth, based on green economy, blue economy, environment protection, social safety nets system and uphold of national cultural identity.
3.2 Objectives
- Developing an economy in balance with environment, society and culture;
- Create a favorably enabling environment for green growth in equity, balance, fraternity, and quality of socio-economic systems and ecology that uphold national cultural value;
3. Goal and Objectives
3.1 Goal
The Policy aims at enhancing the well-being and livelihood of all people in harmonization with ecological safety through green growth, based on green economy, blue economy, environment protection, social safety nets system and uphold of national cultural identity.
3.2 Objectives
- Developing an economy in balance with environment, society and culture;
- Create a favorably enabling environment for green growth in equity, balance, fraternity, and quality of socio-economic systems and ecology that uphold national cultural value;
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