Poverty, Environment, Growth Linkages

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Poverty, Environment, GrowthLinkages
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• MDGs
• WSSD 2002
• Green Growth, Green Economy
• To succeed- link poverty, environment and
  sustainable growth

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Poverty environment linkage

• Livelihoods poor most dependant on use, access
  to natural resources
• Health poor suffer most when water, land , air
  are polluted
• Vulnerability poor are most exposed to
  environmental hazards and environment related
  conflicts

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Examples of PE links
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Growth and PE relationship

• Do all boats rise with the tide or do pockets
  of poverty persist? Quality of growth.
• Environmental degradation and resource
  overexploitation often follow rapid growth
  (resource exploitation gt growth gt pollution of
  environment )
• In turn, environmental degradation and resource
  depletion worsen living conditions and livelihood
  sources, especially of the poor

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Key factors that need to be addressed in poverty
reduction strategies
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Improve env. soundness of growth

• Market failure imperfect or no markets leading
  to overuse and undervalue
• Policy failure negative impact on environment.
  E.g. chemicals to increase agric.output
• Institutional failure interministerial coord,
  complementarity of macro and sectoral approaches

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Poverty-Environment Interactions
Poverty Alleviation
Environmental Management
Policy Goal
Poverty-Environment Interaction
Instruments

• Agricultural investment
• Widen scope of health services

• Soil conservation
• Pollution prevention

Challenge to Policy Makers How to expand scope of
win-win policies
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Europe a hierarchy of challenges
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Cross-cutting issuesBiodiversity across Europe
Europes Environment. The 4th Assessment (2007)
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Cross-cutting issuesWater as a strategic
resource
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Trans-boundary cross-thematic cooperation
Eastern Europe

• Environment Security. Transforming Risks into
  Cooperation. The Case of Moldova, Belarus and
  Ukraine (2007)

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Trends in South Eastern EuropeMain climate
change impacts

• Floods drought
• Crop yields
• Water availability
• Increased exposure to vector water-borne
  diseases
• SEE Climate Change Framework Action Plan for
  Adaptation (2009-2011)

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Environmental performance SEE EECCA

• Environmental Performance Index (2008)

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EECCA Strategy
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Copper mine menaces Armenias Teghut forest.
The damage in Teghut forest has already began.
April 2007.
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• Hard choices about natural resource use
• Economic growth
• Poverty reduction
• Sustaining resource base
• Managing portfolio of natural resources
• Revenues, exports, employment
• Capital intensive vs labour intensive
• Diversity and invest revenues
• Some resources must be sustained

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Conclusion the challenge is how to incorporate
poverty and environment issues as integral parts
of development policy making.