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Advancing Green Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood

EaP GREEN initiative promotes green economy by integrating sustainable consumption and production methods, fostering strategic environmental assessments, and shifting towards sector-level green practices. Expected outcomes include increased competitiveness, improved natural capital management, elevated environmental quality, enhanced ecosystem resilience, and new business prospects. The project facilitates collaboration among EaP countries, EU, and implementing organizations toward sustainable development goals.

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Advancing Green Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood

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  1. Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighbourhood A means for EaP countries to progress faster on their path to green economy.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. Examples of results: strategies and policies

  5. Examples of results – pilot and demonstration project

  6. 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

  7. SWITCH-Med Programme is funded by the European Union SwitchMed SCP-NAP process and outputs

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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