A LEDS is a country-led and country-specific national strategic analysis and planning process covering all economic sectors for promoting economic growth while reducing long-term GHG emission trajectories. At a practical level, a LEDS is the strategic framework, based on sound analytical foundations, that articulates concrete actions, policies, programs, and implementation plans to promote economic growth over the long term in a way that lowers a country's GHG emissions from what they would be if the country carried on with business as usual. LEDS are voluntary and non-binding. Because each country has unique national circumstances and priorities, each country develops and drives its own LEDS strategy

1. LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
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2. WHAT IS A LOW EMISSION DEVELOPMENT?
A LEDS is a country-led and country-specific national strategic
analysis and planning process covering all economic sectors for
promoting economic growth while reducing long-term GHG
emission trajectories..

3. WHY LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT?
• First, the pursuit of low emissions development spurs many
positive impacts to national development goals. It promotes wider
sustainable development benefits, which helps address pressures
related to economic growth, population growth, urbanization, and
resource use.
• Second, a low emissions development trajectory contributes to
global emissions reductions. In this sense, it is a mechanism for
mitigating climate change.

6. SOME EXAMPLES OF THESE CURRENT CHALLENGES THAT
COUNTRIES CAN TURN INTO OPPORTUNITIES.
• Low emissions development can help prevent and manage heat waves and droughts that
involve huge risks for reduced agriculture and harvest losses, forest fires, and heat-related
deaths. It also can help prevent and improve water stress and pollution. This will contribute
to increased access to safe and clean drinking water, which prevents health risks.
Furthermore, low emissions development policies can help manage a wetter climate that
will cause similar social and economic costs, such as increased flooding in many vulnerable
urban areas.
• Low emissions development can thus help turn the challenges of developing countries into
opportunities. It should be seen as a development approach that assists countries to
achieve sustainable economic growth and improve living standards while slowing the rise of
greenhouse gas emissions. National low emissions development strategies should be
suitable to country-specific needs and consistent with a country's sustainable development
priorities.

7. WHAT DOES LED MEAN TO A COUNTRY?
Increased Energy Security
Improved Health and Economic activity from less pollution
Increased industrial efficiency and productivity
New economic opportunities and employment
Contribution to global efforts towards GHG emissions reduction

8. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
LED policies that diversify the
energy systems in countries can
improve energy security. Today,
many developing countries are
heavily dependent on oil imports,
leaving them vulnerable to oil price
shocks. Improving energy security
by shifting to diversified energy
systems of domestic renewable
energy and energy efficiency can
reduce the economic impact of
sharp changes in oil, which
improves an economy's resilience.
Increased Energy Security

9. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
Asia-Pacific region is heavily dependent on fossil
fuel imports. If no action is taken, the share of
fossil fuel consumption is expected to more than
double by 2030. Most countries of the region are
net energy importers, and the vulnerability of
the global energy market has been a policy issue
for decades. The issue of energy security will
continue to dominate policy agendas in the
region during the coming decades. It will be a
key determinant of the region’s ability to
maintain high economic growth rates essential
to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs.
Increased Energy Security
Example from the Asia-Pacific region

10. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
• By reducing the costs of
environmental degradation to society,
health and economic activity can
improve.
• For example, by reducing air
pollution, societies can save major
health and social costs.
• Through climate-smart agriculture,
societies can reduce soil degradation
and make better use of land that
contains carbon in the soil, thus
mitigating climate change and
enhancing agricultural productivity.
Improved health and economic activity from less pollution

11. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
Costs of Air Pollution: The European Environmental
Agency estimates that industrial air pollution costs in
Europe were approximately 169 billion Euros in 2009.
The costs include a diverse set of impacts from health
impacts such as respiratory hospital admissions to
agriculture impacts such as yield loss.
Increased Energy Security
Example from European Environmental Agency Case study

12. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
• LED policies and programs have
huge potential to reduce the
energy costs and thus enhance
competiveness of the industrial
sector.
• Through implementing cost-
effective measures for energy
efficiency, waste reuse, and
insulation improvements, factories
and companies gain many benefits
that also will have spill over effects
for the whole economy.
Increased industrial efficiency and productivity

13. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
• Can be a new source of jobs for many
developing countries that are struggling with
high unemployment. Leading sectors can be
directly linked to: waste management,
sustainable agriculture, energy use,
construction of energy efficient buildings, and
engineering.
• It is important to keep in mind that new job
opportunities are not only found in the
research, development and production of
renewable energy equipment and components.
There is great employment potential in the
downstream linkages, as they need workforce
in the distribution, marketing, sales,
installation, operation, service, and
maintenance of such systems.
New economic opportunities and employment

14. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
Contribution to a
reduction in
the global cost of
climate change

15. NATIONAL AND LOCAL BENEFITS OF LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT
Co-benefits of low emissions development
In the household,
measures can involve
replacing or
improving indoor
cooking stoves,
reducing long-term
health care costs.
Micro power
installations can
increase energy
access, providing
social benefits.
In an urban
environment, it can
help improve
transportation
systems to make
them more
environmentally
friendly and lowering
cities pollution level.
In rural areas where
livelihoods rely on
agriculture and
forestry, LED can
secure more stable
access to food and
less deforestation.

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