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Green Economy and inclusive Growth in IndiaFriday, September 30th, 2011 | Filed underEconomy| Posted by :indiacsr
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The main challenge facing the international community today is to sustain and accelerate the process
of poverty eradication and ensure food and energy security, particularly to developing countries while
shifting gradually to a Green Economy. Agriculture plays a critical role in determining food, water,
ecological and livelihood security.
Integrating the strategies and policies for a green economy into agriculture has to proceed with an
absolute imperative of ensuring these and not forgetting the differentiated needs of subsistence
agriculture and market-oriented crops. Also, transitioning to a greener model of agriculture will depend
on the expeditious provision of green technologies and financial support to developing countries for
productivity enhancement, improved resilience and diversification of production systems.
Sustainable development and management of agriculture would benefit from sharing of best practices
including farm and non-farm development, improved post-harvest management, integration of supply
chains and strengthening of public distribution systems.
Eradicating poverty is an indispensible requirement
for sustainable development. A major cause aggravating poverty is the unsustainable pattern of
consumption and production. Poverty eradication remains an overriding objective of governments in
developing countries, and efforts to build green economies should contribute substantially to realizing
that objective.
A green economy approach to development holds the potential to achieve greater convergence
between economic and environmental objectives.
Integrating green economy strategies and policies into poverty eradication, food security and energy
security is an imperative for sustainable development. The issues to be addressed at the two-day
2011 Delhi Ministerial Dialogue on Green Economy and Inclusive Growth include sustainable
management of sectors like agriculture, industry, energy and transport, urgent adoption of sustainable
life styles and consumption patterns through reduction in per capita ecological footprint, appropriate
population policies, equity concerns, poverty eradication and developmental imperatives.
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Designed properly, green economy policies and programmes can directly contribute to poverty
eradication. Successful examples can offer lessons and possible models for replication. For instance,
Indias rural employment guarantee programme is at one and the same time an anti-poverty
programme and an ecosystem restoration programme. This and other important examples of aligning
environmental and social objectives would be ALSO presented and discussed at the Dialogue.
Food security and access to affordable clean energy are both crucial to eradicating poverty and
promoting social development. The main challenge facing the international community now is to
sustain and accelerate the process of poverty eradication and ensure food and energy security,
particularly to developing countries while shifting gradually to a Green Economy.
Agriculture plays a critical role in determining food, water, ecological and livelihood security.
Integrating the strategies and policies for a green economy into agriculture has to proceed with an
absolute imperative of ensuring these and not forgetting the differentiated needs of subsistence
agriculture and market-oriented crops.
Also, transitioning to a greener model of agriculture will depend on the expeditious provision of green
technologies and financial support to developing countries for productivity enhancement, improved
resilience and diversification of production systems. Sustainable development and management of
agriculture would benefit from sharing of best practices including farm and non-farm development,
improved post-harvest management, integration of supply chains and strengthening of public
distribution systems.
The issue of energy security and universal energy access is intricately linked with economic
development and growth, and rising energy needs to meet it. Energy poverty coexists with inefficient
energy use in much of the world, which given continued heavy dependence on fossil fuels has
been a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Understanding the flexibility or lack of flexibility of each country to change this energy mix and
devising innovative methods to secure energy security are the need of the hour without compromising
on the need for high economic growth to meet the aspirations of the people, especially in developing
countries.
Energy security is a multi-faceted concept. In the current context, the primary focus is on poor
peoples securing adequate energy supplies to raise their living standards, including through improved
income generation, health and education.
Renewable energy should be considered as an integral part of the solution to the energy needs of the
poor, but that will only be feasible if it is affordable and technologically accessible. As affordability is a
function in part of large-scale deployment and learning, the strategy to address energy poverty needs
to be linked to a broader alternative energy strategy as part of a green economy.
With respect to energy security, rural energy access remains seriously deficient in many developing
countries, with well over a billion people lacking access to electricity and clean cooking and heating
fuels. At the same time, even in urban areas, electricity is often underprovided and unreliable,
especially for urban poor communities. This exacerbates poverty and closes off escape routes by
limiting income generation opportunities as well as educational opportunities especially for girls.
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