Green Growth Strategies in Asia - Drivers and Political Entry Points:
-Despite their relatively poor environmental performance in recent decades, manyAsian countries are beginning to develop green growth strategies.
-These strategies utilize different entry points for promoting continued economicgrowth and employment generation, while improving living conditions and addressingthe imperatives of resource efficiency and environmental protection.
The incentives and drivers vary across countries and depend on the respective developmentmodels, resource endowments, financial resources and technological capacities.
-Success depends crucially on the development of a new, broader set of state capacities.These include not only capacities to develop and consistently enforce a robustset of environmental policies, but also to ensure their coherence with other policydomains, in particular innovation and industrial policies.
-In order to scale-up these emerging initiatives into broader transition strategies,the development and further strengthening of corresponding political discoursesand societal coalitions is needed. Such strategies will have to consider the politicaleconomy of reforms, incorporate questions of social justice and address the interestsof key stakeholders.
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