National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 Part-3

National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 Part-3

1.1 Strategic Direction and Strategy   

Preparation and implementation of the National Strategic Plan to respond to green growth principles require active participation of the public sector, the private sector, civil society, and public towards effective green growth with balance among economy, environment, society and culture. The Royal Government of Cambodia adheres to a Win-Win green approach among economy, environment, society, and culture, determining green growth strategies to maintain political and macroeconomic stability with sustainability, transparency, accountability, equity, justice and green opportunities.

The National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 needs to improve green growth by focusing on a strategic direction, including:

1.       Green Investment and Green Jobs Creation

2.       Green Economy Management in balance with Environment

3.       Blue Economy Development with Sustainability

4.       Green Environment and Natural Resources Management

5.       Human Resources Development and Green Education

6.       Effective Green technology Management

7.       Promotion of a Green Social Safety System

8.       Uphold and Protection of Green Cultural Heritage and National Identity

9.       Good Governance on Green Growth

1.    Green Investment and Green Jobs Creation  

The Royal Government of Cambodia provides a green jobs opportunity through development and use of green technology, including enhancement of green investment. Green investment refers to both technical and financial investments in all sectors to ensure environmental impact reduction, and natural resources, alike, and in turn, it helps improve quality of environment, ecosystem preservation, biodiversity conservation, reduction of energy and natural resource use, and reduction of carbon emission and environmental pollution. Green Jobs include green agriculture, green industry, green trade, green infrastructure and transports, green tourism, green energy, green construction and building, green design, green workplace, green market, green product advertisement, green product sale, and green service as well as green finance procurement.

All green products, green services and green finance markets require encouragement of the private sector investment on green agriculture, green industry, green infrastructure, green building and construction, green tourism, green trade, green baking system, and finance including green tax and green technology. 

Green agriculture encourages all at the private sectors and framers to use organic natural fertilizers, reduction of agriculture pesticides, and chemical substances, and systematic crop intensification and promote raising further awareness about green technology for agriculture.

Green industry encourages use of renewable energy, energy –saving and efficiency, and effective use of raw resources, including production of industrial products with high quality.

Green trade encourages supply and purchase of green products and green product demonstration/display, relevant investment, and transferring and changing technologies for green production and green markets.

Green infrastructure and green transports, especially all green physical infrastructures are encouraged to reduce environment impacts and ensure reduction of adverse impact on environment from infrastructure.

Green transports are encouraged not to pollute environment.

Green tourism refers to successful practices of ‘a clean city, clean resort, and good service principle.’

Green building and construction are encouraged to be based on renewable energy, energy saving and energy efficiency, water saving, and environmental beauty.

Green energy is encouraged to use green technology that provides energy efficiency, especially renewable energy.

Green telecommunication is encouraged to be based on a technological system, which pose no harm to public health and environment.   

National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 Part-2

National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 Part-2

1.    Vision  

The National Strategic Plan (NSP) is envisaged to develop sustainable economy, together with environmental, social and cultural sustainability for poverty alleviation.

2.    Mission

The National Strategic Plan has a mission to promote, enhance and ensure effective implementation of green growth through mainstreaming green process and progress.

3.    Goal and Objectives

3.1 Goal

The National Strategic Plan aims at green growth, ensuring politic stability and macroeconomic stability to reach a status of a developed country.

3.2 Objectives

The National Strategic Plan is to promote a national economy with growth stability, reduction and prevention of environmental pollution, safe ecosystem, poverty reduction, and promotion of public health service, educational quality, natural resources management, and sustainable land use  and water resources management to increase energy efficiency, ensuring food safety and glorify the national culture.

4.    Strategic Framework

The National Strategic Plan provides orientation to relevant ministries/institutions, authorities at sub-national levels, the private sectors, civil society and stakeholders for efficiency of green growth with balance among economy, environment, society and culture, aiming at poverty eradication nationwide. This key success strategy relies on duty fulfillment of relevant institutions with support, participation and close cooperation from all concerned parties, including the public, the private sectors, civil society and general public.

4.1 Strategic Analysis

Climate Change issue refers to a global warming, increases in temperature, heat wave, drought, sea level rise, increase in salinity, shortage of fresh water, icy melting flood, arid soil, soil degradation, worn-out of soil fertilizer, and human activities and natural disasters posing major concerns and challenges, such as insecurity of food, energy, economic and financial, social instability and o loss of ecological balance for both developed and developing counties, as well as the whole world. For both key issues if in case of no appropriately common solution applied, the Planet Earth cannot support lives of existing human beings, animals and plants, especially an increase in the world population, which is totally about more than 7000 million now, and will increase to about 8000 million in 2050.

The analysis shows that adverse impact from excessive potential use of natural resources, due to the growing population, which increase the highest demands for these resources. Industrial growth also exerts strong pressure on environment that cause imbalance between economic growth, and natural resources conservation, especially biodiversity, forest, fishery, water resource, mines, and land. If this issue cannot be solved, there will be more environmental problems, such as water pollution, arid and degraded soil productivity, ozone layer destruction, extinction of species, plant damage, storms, flood, drought, and extreme climate conditions, which widens and social gap, thereby posing threats to the entire human race and any development of any country in the world.

Solutions to these problems require good cooperation between the developed countries and developing countries on sharing, protection, conservation of scarcities, and natural resources with one another in order to fulfill the current needs and leave them for the next generation to come.

We act together to make a sustainable development concept come true in terms of development for all and for the next generations in which green growth is a concrete way, based  on four pillars, namely economy, environment, society and culture to achieve sustainable development goal, especially creating harmonization amongst the four pillars, thus bringing about socioeconomic growth, quality of life, health prosperous livelihoods of the people, and good green environment moving towards Green Civilization.

In order to contribute to the protections and preservation of the planet Earth with sustainability, the Kingdom of Cambodia established the 2010 National Green Growth Roadmap for sustainable environment, creation of social fraternity; economic development and enhancement of national identify value. More than this, the country also established a national green growth mechanism, which is National Council on Green Growth for setting up a strategic direction of sustainable development.

National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 Part-1

1.    Introduction

The Kingdom of Cambodia adopted and has been implementing Law on Allowing the Kingdom of Cambodia a membership to an Agreement on the establishment of the Global Green Growth institute (GGGI), Royal Decree on the Preparation and Functioning of National Council on Green Growth (MGGG) and Sub-decree in the Preparation and Functioning of General Secretariat for Green Growth (GSGG) of National Council on Green Growth (NCGG).

This NCGG becomes at fundamental mechanism in contribution to the implementation of the Global Green Economy Principles focusing on environment protection, economic development and poverty reduction approved by the United Nation in Rio+20 Conferences in Brazil in June 2012. Today, Cambodia takes the lead and is a role model in terms of green growth in the ASEAN countries, Asia –Pacific countries and member countries of the GGGI.

In a global framework based on the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil, the sustainable development principles were set out; the Rio+10 Earth Summit in 2002 in South Africa provided the sustainable development action plan and the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012 in Brazil established a new principle focusing on green growth with attention to the cored environmental protection for development and poverty eradication. At the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2013, the Kingdom of Cambodia signed the Agreement on the Establishment of a Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) converted into an international organization, along with other 16 signatory member countries and nowadays there are 18 member countries and this organization is a mechanism for implementing a decision on “The Future We Want” of the United Nations.

Green Growth principles focus on four pillars, namely economy, environment, society, and culture to promote green growth, public health, quality of environment, people’s livelihoods, and uphold of a national cultural identify. In order to implement the principle, the NCGG, with the general secretariat as a direct assisting institution, prepares legal formalities, policies, strategic plan, action plan, and programs on green growth as a win-win approach for sustainable economic growth moving towards a developed country in the future.

At this stage, the RGC has prepared the National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2012-2030 to boots Cambodia economy towards a green economy focusing on efficient use of natural resources, environmental sustainability, green jobs, green technology, and economic reform. Placing more consideration into green incentives, such as green tax, green finance, more importantly green credit, green microfinance, and green investment, based on the success of the RGC’s Win-Win policy and the most successful experience on sustainable socio-economic development in the implementation of the Rectangular Strategy, all of which mainly contributes to global green economy at the same time of maintain environmental quality, enhancement of public health, and promoting a social safety system toward building a low carbon emission society.