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Last update:
March 29, 2010
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Bazaar of Ideas
“Applying
the Green Growth approach for basic service delivery and poverty reduction”
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BACKGROUND
The “Bazaar of Ideas” took place as a side event of the first session of the Committee on Environment and Development. It provided a platform for member states and development partners to showcase concrete examples of applying Green Growth for basic service delivery and poverty reduction in the form of innovative ideas, practices, approaches or policies. |
AUDIENCE
To maximize exposure and cross-fertilization of ideas, the “Bazaar of Ideas” was open to delegates and observers to the first session of the Committee on Environment and Development, to all UN staff and to outside guests from development agencies, civil society, the business sector, academia, local government, and the media.
STRUCTURE OF THE EVENT
First the 10 presenters each gave a 3 min "sales pitch" to the plenary, based on which, all participants choose 2 slots they would like to attend. This was followed by two 40 minutes sessions of parallel presentations. Each presentation drew between 10 to 35 guests and discussions were lively. |
"Green Growth" was adopted at the 2005 Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development as a regional strategy to achieve sustainable development. Green Growth, or environmentally sustainable economic growth is a development strategy that synergizes economic growth and environmental sustainability objectives and fosters socially inclusive and sustainable development.
The concept of Green Growth has become an integral part of the global paradigm shift towards greener development to cope with the combined threats of the food, fuel and global economic crises as well as climate change. |
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While by its very nature, the “Bazaar of Ideas” was open to showcasing a wide range of practices, approaches and policies that can contribute to Green Growth for basic service delivery and poverty reduction, the good practices were selected because because they exhibited the following characteristics: |
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They represented a co-benefit or synergy between economic growth and environmental sustainability; |
They were sustainable, pro-poor and inclusive; |
They were replicable or adaptable in other countries. |
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Download Presentation and Background information
The 10 innovative practices from China, India, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam were championed by ESCAP member states and the UN Regional Coordination Mechanism. They covered issues as varied as carbon banking and community forestry, eco-loans for the urban poor, sustainable groundwater management by farmers, improved social and environmental factory practices, solar energy schemes in rural areas, pro-poor and sustainable solid waste management, low-energy housing and eco-villages, and green tannery technologies.
To see the presentations given by each of the 10 presenters and to learn a little bit more about each practice, click on the links below.
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“Eco-village” and “Very Small Power Producer”: Pioneering a Practical Approach for Sustainable Habitats and Biosphere,
Presented by: TG Building Systems Company Limited (housing technology) and Cellennium Thailand Company Limited (energy and other resources technology)
Background Information | Presentation |
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