Recent Experiences of ESCAP in Promoting Green Growth & Developing stronger Partnership with GWP. Presentation by Salmah Zakaria

"Recent Experiences of ESCAP inPromoting Green Growth & Developingstronger Partnership with GWP" Salmah Zakaria Energy Security and Water Resources Section Include works of Rae Kwon Chung, Ti LeHuu, Ermina Sokou and others from the Environment Development Division UN ESCAP, Bangkok GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

3 Messages Asia Pacific facing water insecurity, through multiple challenges/hotspots Green Growth required for sustainable development, in a world with global environmental limitation ESCAP/GWP working together – a strategic relationship for the Asia Pacific region GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Outline of presentations Water Security and Green Growth Climate Change – manifestation of an unconnected world?? Synergistic Efforts ESCAP/GWP - can help support Asia-Pacific needs GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Security and Green Growth GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Challenges in Asia Pacific Multiple Challenges in water sector  Increasing water scarcity threat, High water utilization, Deteriorating water quality, Poor water quality and low water endowment, Flood-prone countries, Cyclone-prone countries, Drought-prone countries, Ecosystem changes/ Climate change risk, Poor access to drinking water, Poor access to sanitation, etc Using IWRM concept  Scaled down to implementation at local areas  Water security, water insecurity and hotspots, piloting implementation of eco-efficient water infrastructure, community water shed management, etc  Scaled up to a more encompassing platform/concept  Green growth GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Security, Definition & Index Has been the focus of ESCAP for some time  Should reflect achievements of sustainable socio-economic development  Analyse on the index and standards to be measured GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Security Definition in UN Lack of commonly accepted definition of ―water security‖ by the UN General Assembly  Difficult to bring water in political agenda for international cooperation  Minimal problems when forums are not inter-governmental  Where decisions or recommendations will not be legally binding GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Insecurity Index (WII)  Water Insecurity Index is a measure for the lack of capacity to deliver the expected outcomes from investments and management in water resources for socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable economic development GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Insecurity Index (WII) The framework for WII to be based  Capacity (or lack of capacity) to deliver  Water availability and water index  Risk management capacity  Investment capacity  Expected Development outcomes  ―Composite outcomes”: household water security, poverty reduction, healthy people, healthy ecosystems, low conflict, economic development GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water Hotspots To better focus and prioritize regional action  ESCAP identified hotspots of multiple challenges  Hotspots - countries or areas or ecosystems with overlapping challenges of  poor access to water and sanitation, deteriorating water quality, limited water availability and increased exposure to climate change and water-related disasters GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hotspots GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Water security and green growth Ensuring long term water security  Must concurrently focus also on System/Environmental Health ie should be ecological-based Green Growth look from the position of global environmental limitation  The need to migrate from current market based to ecological based economy GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Why Green Growth Address global limited ecological carrying capacity Meet unmet basic needs and the MDGs  increasingly convergent challenges—food, water and energy insecurity; persistent economic uncertainty; and climate change impacts.  hard won gains in reducing poverty and improving people’s lives are in danger of being reversed Without accommodating ecological carrying capacity, the sustainable growth is not feasible Improving eco-efficient of economy as a whole is a key element for Sustainable Development RK Chung: ASEAN-ISIS 24th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, 7-9June 2010 Kuala Lumpur GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Green Growth Principles BUSINESS AS USUAL(Grow first, clean-up later)  GREEN GROWTH Market price ≠ Ecological price Economic efficiency < Ecological efficiency Quantity of growth  Quality of growth RK Chung: ASEAN-ISIS 24th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, 7-9June 2010 Kuala Lumpur GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Green Growth Goal Quantity Quality of Eco-efficiency of Growth Growth From Market Price to Ecological Price From Quantity of growth to Quality of Growth RK Chung: ASEAN-ISIS 24th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, 7-9June 2010 Kuala Lumpur GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Human Development Index and DomesticMaterial Consumptionper capita, 1995 and 2005 GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Green Growth – Sustainabledevelopment De Boer - National Geographic News, Published November 26, 2010  the green growth stimulus packages of China and Korea, clearest signal of what is to come GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Green Growth Development in Water Resources Management in ESCAP ESCAP’s member countries accepted Green Growth as a Policy option at the MCED5, in March 2005 in Seoul  ESCAP and its partners developed Regional Capacity Development Programme for Green Growth Policy Tools  http://www.greengrowth.org/index.asp Endorsement of RIP (Regional Implementation Plan) on green growth at MCED6, in Astana Kazakhstan, 0ct 2010 Green growth road map – currently being developed/researched  Including articulating the development of possible/alternatives migration paths to ecological base economy GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Climate Change – manifestation of anunconnected world?? GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Significance of Climate change towater systems Significant change in quantity of flow, will affect  Design sizing of infrastructure; culverts, bridges, canals, dams, etc  Existing operations and maintenance: water related systems - floods, water supply, irrigation etc Shifting rainfall patterns, between 1-2 weeks  Affect planting season; harvesting should not meet floods!  Droughts need to be avoided  Affect reservoir fillings, draw-downs, operations & maintenance  Other general operations and maintenance of water infrastructure and systems Extreme and recurring floods and droughts  Health implication  Social and economic activities GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Climate Change Became significant with more energy used, deforestation, production of biomass, agro- industrial products, etc  Start ?? - Industrial revolution of 18th Century  Mostly in the North  Followed now – lifestyle change, including urbanisation  Everywhere: The South brings with it huge population, while seemingly following similar development foot-paths Impact from Climate Change affect all particularly  the most vulnerable and least resilience  majority of which are in the developing world GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Climate Change Negotiations Focus on  The source for climate Change  Mostly mitigation, reduced use of easily available energy; technology for clean alternative energy – still expensive The developing countries, with huge population  emulate the developed countries to industrialise and urbanise – emitting more GHGs GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Bubbles of GHGs emissions GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Failure of Multilateral Negotiations In both WTO’s Doha and UNFCCC, Fundamental Negotiation/bargaining problem  ParticipatingNations do not clearly see benefits to their nation from the outcomes Peter Lloyd, University of Melbourne, - Public Lecture, ESCAP, 23rd Feb2011 GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Four steps to improve MultilateralNegotiations Improved analyses of the benefits and costs of proposals More preparations on proposals to be considered  Apparently, every time, the next negotiation, start from where it was left previously Statement of Clear Objectives New methods of negotiations  Currently: complex agenda, attitudes and bottom up approach ( will depend on national mitigation schemes) Peter Lloyd, University of Melbourne, - Public Lecture, ESCAP, 23rd Feb2011 GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

ESCAP’s Current Activitiesin CC Adaptation Strengthened awareness and knowledge on Green Growth, water security/insecurity and Eco-efficient approaches  Eco-efficiency water infrastructure  Supporting development of appropriate policies and piloting community-based projects in the region, to improve resilience to local communities Developing Generic Guidelines  for CC Adaptation vis-à-vis water security/insecurity and green growth  Developing roadmap for migration to green growth economy GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Synergistic Efforts ESCAP/GWP -canhelp support Asia-Pacific needs GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Synergistic Working Areas GWPO regions in Asia-Pacific  4 of 13 GWP Regions are in Asia Pacific  South Asia (SA)  Southeast Asia (SEA)  Central Asia – the Caucasus  China  Good Practices to learn from other GWPO regions outside Asia Pacific - Central and South America, Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

ESCAP/GWP -Localising ideas ESCAP  Piloting new ideas/concepts in member countries; working with governments, private sectors, NGOs and communities  Working with consultants to research current status and future directives GWPO  Similar objectives – working with sub-regional outfits, which share many common needs GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

ESCAP/GWP past histories ESCAP and GWP  Developed, with FAO – SPM in IWRM  Supported GWPSEA Water forums and dialogues GWP in ESCAP events  MIR EGM  Other dialogues Many common Partners GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Potential joint working areas Current  IWRM – Monitoring of Investments and Results  Climate Change, Food and Water Security Potential ???  Working through the water-energy-food nexus initiatives including MIR  Waste Water Revolution – pollution of water bodies is a major problem in Asia Pacific  Green growth – migrating from market to an ecological-based economy  Rules of Law – rights to  Access to safe water – community pilot projects, impact of CC to access  Rights to climate change adaptation ?? GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

THANK YOU GWP Regional Workshop, Climate Change, Food and Water Security 24 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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