An insight to Green Growth & Resource Productivity Environment Statistics Training Workshop, Doha, September 2012 Adriana Oropeza Lliteras VII

Why Green Growth in Qatar? RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21, 2012 Qatar joined sixteen other industrialized, emerging economies and developing countries in signing the Agreement on the Establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute

Definition Targets Indicators 8.1 OECD’s Strategy & Indicators

...fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that the natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies”. What is Green Growth?  Productivity and Innovation  Resource scarcity OECD. “Towards Green Growth”, OECD Ministerial Council Meeting,

Economic opportunities GG OECD’s Indicators Natural asset base Environmental quality of life Environmental and resource productivity

GG OECD’s Indicators Environmental and resource productivity Carbon and energy productivity Resource: materials, nutrients, water Multi-factor productivity

Natural asset base GG OECD’s Indicators Renewable stocks: resources Non renewable stocks Biodiversity and ecosystem

GG OECD’s Indicators Environmental health and risks Environmental services and amenities Environmental quality of life

GG OECD’s Indicators Economic opportunities Environmental goods & services International financial flows Prices and transfers Skills and training Regulations and management approaches Technology and innovation

“Low Carbon Green Growth” 8.2 Korea’s Green Growth vision

Mitigation of Climate change Creation of new growth engines Improvement of quality of life

Strengthen energy design standards Green building certification Energy consumption statistics system Integrated transit centers Carbon labelling

Water and Green Growth

Or the new Eco-efficiency 8.3 Resource Productivity

Green growth /Resource productivity: options for Qatar  Building energy efficiency  Food waste  Municipal water leakage  Urban densification  Irrigation techniques  Transport efficiency  Urban water leakage  Environmental housing (water, energy, wastes)  Industrial energy efficiency motors systems  Grid integration  Wastewater reuse  Wastes to energy