Low Carbon News in Cambodia in September 2013
September 11, 2013/Cambodia
Summary of Naional Council of Green Growth (2013-2030)
By Chea Eliyan, RUPP, Cambodia
1. Introduction
Kingdom of Cambodia has been implementing Law on Allowing to an Agreement on the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) with Royal degree on the Preparation of Function of the National Council of Green Growth (NCGG) and Sub-degree on the Preparation and Function of General Secretariat for Green Growth (GGGI) of National Council on Green Growth (NCGG).
With RGC’s Win-Win approach for sustainable economic growth moving towards a developed country in the future, Green Growth principles focus on four pillars, namely economy, environment, society, and culture in order to promote green growth, public health, quality of environment, people’s livelihood, and uphold of a national culture identity.
At this stage, RGS has prepared NCGG to boost Cambodian economy towards a green economy with implementing of Rectangular strategy which mainly contribute to global green economic at the same time of maintaining environmental quality, enhancement of public health, and promoting a social safety system towards building a low carbon emission society.
2. Vision
The National Strategic Plan (NSG) is envisaged to develop sustainable economy, together with environmental, social and cultural sustainability for poverty alleviation.
3. Mission
This National Strategic Plan has a mission to promote, enhance and ensure effective implementation of green growth through mainstreaming green process and progress.
4. Goal and Objectives
4.1 Goal
The National Strategic Plan aims at green growth, ensuring politic stability and macroeconomic stability to reach a status of a developed country.
4.2 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 national culture.
5. Strategic Framework
NSP provides orientation to relevant ministries/institutions, authorities at sub-national level, the private sector, civil society and stakeholders for efficiency of green growth with
balance economy, environmental, society and culture, aiming at poverty eradication nationwide.
5.1 Strategic Analysis
The excessive potential use from growing population and industrial growth exerted strongly pressure on environment that causes imbalance between economic growth and natural resources conservation.
The solution requires good cooperation between the developed and developing countries on sharing, protecting, conservation of scarcities, and natural resources in order to overcome the current need and next generation. So, we act together to make a sustainable development concept come true for all and for the next generations in term of good green environment moving towards Green Civilization.
In order to contribute to the protection and preservation, the 2010 National Green Growth Roadmap was established for sustainable environment, creation of fraternity, economic development, and enhancement of national identity value; especially, also established national green growth mechanism which is NCGG setting up a strategic direction of sustainable development.
5.2 Strategic Direction and Strategy
According to the combination of RGS’s Win-Win green approach and active participant, the NSP on Green Growth 2013-2030 needs to improve green growth by focusing on 9 strategies direction:
1. Green Investment and Green Job Creation: Green Investment and Green Job Creation shall have the strategies as follows:
Encourage investors to take green growth into account and create jobs with green technology
Investment in efficient use of natural resources
Effective management of finance in the public and private sector
2. Green Economy Management in Balance with Environment:
Green Economy Management in Balance with Environment shall have strategies as follows:
Green Fiscal Management
Management of Green Monetary Policy
Management of Payment for Environment Services
Effective Revenue-Expenditure Management
3. Blue Economy Development with Sustainability: In term of Blue Economy, Cambodia economy refers strongly to foster coastal areas through commercial activities water course transportation, sea port construction, ecotourism development at the island, etc.,.
The Blue Economic Development with Sustainability shall have the following strategies:
Blue Economy Management and Development
Monitoring on Marine Pollutants
Ensuring Marine Food Security
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission and Climate Change Adaptation
4. Green Environment and Natural Resources Management: The Management of green environment and natural resources shall have the strategies as follows:
Green agriculture, food security, food safety and hygiene: green agriculture, agricultural conservation, and ecological agriculture
Sustainable water resources management
Effective management of energy and renewable energy
Management and sustainable land use
Conservation and sustainable fishery management
Infrastructure development and green transports
Green tourism development
Environmental quality improvement
5. Human Resources Development and Green Education: The human resources development and green education shall have the following strategies:
Promoting green growth in a formal systematic education
Promoting green growth in a non-systematic education
Exchanging green knowledge, experience and technology
Dissemination and education through media
6. Effective Green Technology Management: Effective green technology management shall have the strategies as follows:
Equipping green technology
Training on green technology
Green technology investment
7. Promotion of a Green Social Safety System: Promoting of a green culture social safety shall have the following strategies:
Green culture and social safety
Social protection
8. Uphold and Protection of Green Cultural Heritage and National Identity: Uphold and protection of green cultural heritage and identify shall have the strategies as follows:
Uphold and protect of green culture
Green culture heritage conservation
Enhancement of intangible cultural heritage
9. Good Governance on Green Growth: Good governance on green growth shall have strategies as follows:
Promote cooperation on good governance between national and international green institutions
Preparing legal framework and policy
Human capacity building
Mobilize finance and development finds
Enhancing transparence, accountability, and responsibility
6. Activities
6.1 Institutional Structure
Strengthen green growth structure at national and sub-national levels to implement legal formalities, policies, strategic plans, programs and action plans on green growth.
6.2 Developing Legal Framework
Prepare and develop legal formalities on green growth, such as low on green growth etc.
6.3 Green Growth Action Plan
As green growth in the strategic objectives, the implementation of the action plan of this strategic plan is divided in two phases: 1) for a short term from 2013-2017 (3-5 years), trying to achieve it; 2) for medium and long term from 2018 to 2030 (6-13 years) for sustainability of economy development, in balance with environment, society, and culture.
7. Financial Resources
Financial Resources for supporting implementation for strategic plans come from a national budget and other resources.
8. Monitoring and Evaluating
Strategic plan requires monitoring and evaluation on implementation in each phase, based on a basis of strategy and action plans that are set forth, including key factors. After the RGC’s adoption of the Strategic Plan, National Council on Green Growth shall be implemented in each relevant sector. Therefore, monitoring and evaluation to ensure practices respond to the needs of people and other country.
9. Conclusions
The RGC highly appreciates National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030 as a basis in implementing a national policy on green growth, based on 9 priority strategies, including: green investment, green economy development in balance with environment, sustainable bleu economy development, green environment and natural resources management, human resources management, sustainable green technology management, enhancement of a green social safety system, uphold and protection of green cultural heritage, and national identity and good governance on green growth, which consists of many small strategies, as a means for achieving vision, mission, goal, strategic objectives of a national strategic plan. All these strategies indicate a major importance of Win-Win strategy through green growth and serve as the best solutions to help to reduce poverty, sustainability of environmentally social-economic development, maintaining national cultural heritage for national great prestige, aiming at ensuring political stability and macro economy, and the country will become a developed country.