Green Bridge Forum 2015. Regional Spotlight Day, April 16th. Presentation of Mr. Heinrich Wyes.

1. …innovations, clocks and
clouds in Central Asia
Heinrich W. Wyes –
Deputy Executive Director
Central Asian Regional
Environment Centre (CAREC)

2. Innovation as a basis for future
sustainable economic and social
development of Central Asia
• basing the future on extractive industries is
insufficient
• new development patterns are needed for
Central Asia
• incentives and innovations to adjust the
current development patterns are needed

3. • CAREC as an institutional innovation
• CAREC as a platform for introducing
innovative projects and programmes in
Central Asia
• CAREC as a catalyzer for innovative
approaches in Central Asia
• CAREC as an incubator for innovations
CAREC providing innovations for a
sustainable Central Asia:

4. • CAREC’s head office in Almaty, Kazakhstan and
country offices in all 5 Central Asian states
• CAREC is an international organization of regional
character
• CAREC was funded in 2001 by the Central Asian
States, the UN and the EU
• CAREC’ s Board consists of representatives from the
Central Asian states, the civil society, OSCE and the
donor community
• CAREC successfully transformed from a core budget
to a project based organization
1. CAREC as an institutional
innovation:

5. 2. CAREC as a platform for introducing
innovative approaches in Central Asia:
• AWARE
• WMBOCA
• COMO East Initiative
• CASEP and
• FLERMONECA.

6. 3. CAREC as a catalyzer to introduce
innovative approaches in Central
Asia
NAMAs: National Appropriate Mitigation Actions

7. • Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are
voluntary mitigation-contribution of developing and
transition countries to contribute to the global effort to
mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to promote low-
carbon transformation
• NAMAs comply with national policies to reach additional
mitigation targets
• NAMAs supported by industrialised countries
• In contrast to traditional project-based mitigation actions and
projects (f.e. CDM) , NAMAs focus on building a sustainable
low-carbon structure in climate-relevant sectors.
National Appropriate Mitigation Action

8. NAMA carbon sequestration
through re- and afforestation
• The principle objective is to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by increasing the carbon
sequestration capacities of arid- and semiarid
lands through afforestation- and reforestation
activities
• The land administration will have to rehabilitate
additional areas of land in future
• Need to calculate a baseline and the additional
amounts of carbon being sequestered

9. 4. CAREC as an incubator for true
innovations:
2011 Winner of the Global Swiss ReSource Award for
sustainable watershed Management on Integrating PES
and REDD

10. Thank you for your attention