This document discusses sustainable development goals and green growth through bottom-up eco-innovation. It outlines challenges in developing countries related to insufficient innovation capacity and lack of support. Case studies from Cambodia demonstrate how appropriate technologies like solar cookers can meet local needs while creating jobs and reducing environmental impacts. The conclusion emphasizes that green growth requires innovative solutions and dedicated funding is needed to build innovation capacity in least developed countries through demonstration projects and technology sharing.

1. Sustainable Development Assessment: Towards Measurable Goals
Accelerating Bottom-up Approach on
Green Growth and Eco-Innovation
@ASEM ENV Forum
21 November 2012
Juhern Kim

2. Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. MDGs and SDGs, why we are setting the Goals?
3. Accelerating Green Growth and Eco-Innovation
at the bottom-up level
4. Case studies in BOP market
5. Conclusion

3. 1. Introduction

5. 2. MDGs and SDGs ,
why we are setting the goals?

6. MDGs and Post-2015

7. Source: The UN Millennium
Development Goals Report 2012

8. Rio+20, and challenges ahead
Green Growth
- Over 1.3 billion people still do not have access to electricity Eco-Innovation
- 2.5 billion people live without basic sanitation
- 4 billion people live on less than $9 per day

9. 3.Accelerating Green Growth and
Eco-Innovation at the bottom-up level

10. Green Growth and Eco-Innovation
Green growth means fostering economic growth and development, while
ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and
environmental services on which our well-being relies. - OECD
Green growth is the new revolutionary development paradigm that sustains
economic growth while at the same time ensuring climatic and environmental
sustainability. - GGGI
Eco-innovation is any form of innovation resulting in or aiming at significant
and demonstrable progress towards the goal of sustainable development
through reducing impacts on the environment, enhancing resilience to
environmental pressures, or achieving a more efficient and responsible use of
natural resources. - European Commission Eco-Innovation Action Plan
(2012)

11. Innovation status in Developing Countries
(policy view)
Insufficient green growth innovation activity and a lack
of international initiatives to remedy this
Current status
Insufficient Suggestions
integration from Focus on building
innovation to innovation capacity in
implementation, LDCs
and a lack of
international Be flexible and take risks
mechanisms that to respond to unknown
might support this future market needs
Source: GGGI and Brookings Institute (2012) Insufficient innovation capacity in LDC countries, and scarcity
of capacity building in international initiative

12. Innovation status in Developing Countries
(bottom-up view)
Potential in BOP market (living on less than 9 dollars per day)
– collective purchasing power: estimated 5 trillion dollars
Source: Hammond (2007)
Challenges Eco-Innovation Opportunities
- Scarce public and global funding - Untapped eco-innovation potential in
- ODA tends to support direct not-so-high tech in developing
spefic target countries (‘appropriate technology’)
- Local enterprise has limited - Opportunities are there to nurture
access to long-term financing local entrepreneurship

13. Why Innovation is difficult?
In Thailand
14:00 Saw Kre Ka village, Tha Song Yang District
Source: Appropriate Technology Foundation

14. Learning from design thinking
Source: IDEO
“Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the
designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and
the requirements for business success.” — Tim Brown, president and CEO

15. Learning from design thinking
Source: Jeongtae Kim (2012)

16. 4.Case studies in BOP market

17. Case #1
Source: Edit-the-world

18. Case #2
Economic Benefit
Micro lending concept,
20 technology centers set up,
300,000 installed as of 2009
Environmental Benefit
Reduce fossil fuel consumption
Social Benefit
Community participation:
660 women employed,
600 youth trained,
aiming to create 100,000 jobs by 2015
Source: UNEP Green Economy Developing Countries Success Stories (2010)
Solar Home Systems (SHSs)

20. ASEIC Programme Concept
Basic Framework
Identifying Problems Responding to actual needs Establishing sustainable business
of local residents in LDCs of local people (development) model
through ‘appropriate technology’
GO/ IO
Some key characteristics
Academia
regarding SMEs
• Energy shortage (water, wood and ‘appropriate technologies’ Comprehensive
forest, land, materials, etc.)
Development Strategy
• Affordable price and funding suport
• Environmental problems • Utilizing local resources
(deforestation, desertification, • Generating jobs and finding Local Local
drought, extinction of species, untapped local opportunities government Workforce
pollution, etc.) • Small in scale and simple in
design
• Social and economic vulnerability • Fostering social collaboration and
(low-income, lack of jobs, local development
lack of education, etc) • Easily adaptable to changes in
local environment
ex) Solar cooker, Micro Solar Home
System, Improved Solar Dryer, etc.
Poverty Social
Job Creation
Reduction Development

21. ASEIC Cambodia Project
Background Eco-InnovativeTechnologies Expected Outcomes
Takeo, Phnom Penh Solar cooker, Micro Solar Home System
GO/ IO
SMEs Academia
Comprehensive
Development Strategy
Deforestation and energy shortage Solar cooker for small-scale use
Local government Local Workforce
Severe indoor pollution Micro solar home System (SHS) Poverty
Job Creation
Social
Reduction Development

22. Learning from design thinking
Source: Jeongtae Kim (2012)

23. Feasibility Study – Solar Cooker case
Cambodia Project – desirability
Local survey at Takeo region (97 households)
Clear need of local residents
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24. Cambodia Project – feasibility

25. Cambodia Project – viability
GGGI : Supports international cooperation with the Royal Government of Cambodia and international organizations,
disseminates the project outcome to the international community, fund raising if necessary
: Linked to the GGGI-Cambodia Green Growth Country Program
ASEIC : Manages project and provides funds as host
organization/liaises with participating local/global agencies
Business Experts
ASEIC Project Scope
GGGI-Cambodia Country Program : Advises on a business
strategy
Business : find possible way to make
ASEIC Experts
(SMBA/SBC) a local business sustainable ,
Gov’t of
GGGI by applying shared
Cambodia GGGI-ASEIC
Project
technologies
in Cambodia
Local Local
Tech. Local Business
AT Center
Experts Partners Model
Tech. Experts and Local Partners : Produces solar cookers, improved solar dryer, etc.,
while sharing technologies with local community
International International
Government Local Workforce
Organization & Local Experts

26. Other information……
Technology sharing

27. Discussion

28. Discussion

29. Capacity Building

30. Capacity Building

31. Demonstration

32. Demonstration

33. Demonstration

34. Demonstration

35. Demonstration

36. “This solar panel can change lives of Cambodians – both users and
manufacturers – and shows how foreign aid should be implemented.” –
The Korea Times, 15 October 2012

37. 5. Conclusion

38. Innovation capacity is needed
Source: Brookings (2012)

39. Concluding remarks
- Green Growth and Eco-Innovation can be regarded as key drivers
towards sustainable development
- Decoupling environmental degradation and resources consumption
from economic growth requires innovative solutions from public and
private sector, but developing and least developed countries has
insufficient support and needs specially tailored approach
- Dedicated funds to de-risk entrepreneurial investments and
international program are needed to catalyze capacity building to
develop innovation ecosystems in least developed countries
…...
- Measurable indicators for innovation activity and performance in
developing countries needs to be developed to foster sustainability

40. Thank you
Please contact through this email,
Juhern Kim, zestor33@gmail.com