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Ethiopia's Climate-Resilient Green Economy

Green economy strategy

FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA

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Contents

Foreword

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Executive summary

1

The vision: Achieve middle-income status by 2025 in a

climate-resilient green economy

5

The challenge: Realise economic development goals in a

sustainable way

11

The plan: Follow a green growth path that fosters development

and sustainability

19

The ambition is to build a green economy

19

The development of a green economy will be based on

four pillars

20

Agriculture: Improving crop and livestock production

practices for higher food security and farmer income

while reducing emissions

22

Forestry: Protecting and re-establishing forests for

their economic and ecosystem services, including as

carbon stocks

24

Power: Expanding electricity generation form

renewable energy for domestic and regional markets

25

Transport, industrial sectors and buildings:

Leapfrogging to modern and energy efficient

technologies

26

Building a green economy offers cost-efficient abatement

potential while promoting GTP targets

28

Making it happen: Ethiopia's action plan to create a green

economy

45

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Appendices

59

Approach and methodology

61

Electric Power

78

Green Cities and Buildings

91

Forestry

101

Livestock

117

Soil

134

Industry

151

Transport

165

List of References

181

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Foreword

Ethiopia is experiencing the effects of climate change. Besides the direct effects such as an increase in average temperature or a change in rainfall patterns, climate change also presents the necessity and opportunity to switch to a new, sustainable development model. The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has therefore initiated the Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) initiative to protect the country from the adverse effects of climate change and to build a green economy that will help realise its ambition of reaching middleincome status before 2025. Since February 2011, the CRGE initiative, under the leadership of the Prime Minister's Office, the Environmental Protection Authority, and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute, has been developing a strategy to build a green economy. Seven sectoral teams involving more than 50 experts from more than 20 leading government institutions have been driving the initiative. The objective is to identify green economy opportunities that could help Ethiopia reach its ambitious growth targets while keeping greenhouse gas emissions low. The government intends to attract development partners to help implement this new and sustainable growth model. This report summarises the findings of the CRGE initiative, and particularly focuses on outlining the plan to develop a green economy. The document does not cover climate resilience, which will be added over the coming months. This strategy has been extensively discussed during the previous two months of regional and sectoral consultations to ensure national alignment on priorities, confirm initial findings, create awareness, and join forces. This document reflects the work of the CRGE initiative as well as the outcome of the consultation process.

Addis Ababa, November 2011

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