Towards a Green Economy with Low CO2 Emissions SEVER CO2 From theory to practice: The green economy local fabric Alain RETIERE, CAP 2100 international
18 September 2014 PROJECT CO-FINANCED BY A GRANT FROM SWITZERLAND THROUGH THE SWISS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION
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Content • Green economy: issues at stake • Enabling conditions for green economy • Entry points for green economy • Social costs and benefits of green economy • Illustrative projects: Nicaragua, Brazil, Guinea, India, Romania • Role of NGOs in the emergence of the green economy
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Issues at stake • Global demography • Climate change • Land degradation • Peak oil • Biodiversity erosion • Food security
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http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf
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Enabling conditions • Wide understanding of issues at stake (education) • From linear to circular economy (no waste approach) • Land degradation neutrality • Setting governing regulations for internalization of the cost of environment externalities
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Building a LDNW by 2030
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GE entry points • Land management for compact cities, productive and ecologic fields • Low carbon local food systems • From urban waste to rural resource • Shared ecohousing • Convertion from thermic to wind/sun clean power • Collaborative economy
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Eco-building
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GE social costs and benefits: cost or benefit? • Less meat and more veg food • Less transport more screen time • Cooler homes and higher energy prices • More bike and bus than car • Higher prices and stable salaries • Longer mortgage payment time • Better health • Need for more education
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San Dionisio, Nicaragua • Degraded land restoration through integrated municipal social and ecological rehabilitation project: • Irrigated district for basic crops • Improved silvopastoral systems • Organic coffee • Local basic food prices regulation system • River heads and banks reforestation • Renewable energies in isolated villages
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Brazil • Local food systems by small farmers (mostly women) associations based on national “fome zero” programme and local bio products marketplaces
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India • Water and waste urban-rural • Green energies for rural communities • Sustainable land use management
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Water
Biofertility
Biological diversity
M ix cropping Green marketing
Dry farming
Waste management
EN ERGY Green ďŹ nancing
Low carbon transport Carbon sequestration
Pest biocontrol O ptimized land-use
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Guinea • Dubreka: local bio products marketplace, waste management and storage • Dabola: 50MW PV to strenghen local autonomous networks and substitute 50 thermic power stations, under agrosolar systems
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Targu Jiu • Local food system • Biodiesel • Organic wheat, barley, buckwheat • Organic dairy farming • Green energies and energy savings • Business incubator on: • Ecosystems restoration • Urban mining • Smart housing • Organic plastics • Eco-construction materials
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Final consideration on the role of NGO in GE • Combat “brown” economy and promote “green economy” • Monitor and alert on environmental risks and social unusefullness of development policies and projects • Stimulate social ecological innovation and technological adoption • Experiment, educate and communicate on new “green” ways of life based on collaborative economy • Pionneer social ecological innovative initiatives (housing, food, transport, energy)
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Thank you!
PROJECT CO-FINANCED BY A GRANT FROM SWITZERLAND THROUGH THE SWISS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION
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