Green Growth : Towards a Strategy for Uruguay
Green growth aims to reconcile economic growth and environmental sustainability, marrying environmental objectives to productivity objectives, job creation, adoption of technology and greater added value. In Uruguay, natural capital plays a central...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/696541534527408737/Green-Growth-Towards-a-Strategy-for-Uruguay http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30472 |
| Summary: | Green growth aims to reconcile economic
growth and environmental sustainability, marrying
environmental objectives to productivity objectives, job
creation, adoption of technology and greater added value. In
Uruguay, natural capital plays a central role in promoting
its export-oriented growth model. Although the country has
already been involved in a sustainable growth trajectory for
key economic sectors (such as agriculture, tourism, forest
management, energy), Uruguay needs to define a green growth
strategy to face the emerging environmental challenges, and
to meet its goals of production and international
commitments targets in a sustainable way.In this context,
this report provides a roadmap to promote green growth in
Uruguay, with the objective of promoting growth and, at the
same time, preserving the asset base on which this growth
depends. The work developed is based on the findings of the
Technical Assistance Green Growth in Uruguay financed by the
World Bank that took place between August 2016 and March
2018, as well as Uruguay's experience in environmental
sustainability policies, the collection of international
evidence, and World Bank's experience with Uruguay
during the last decade.This report proposes an operational
definition for Uruguay, presents an analysis of the
achievements made so far in the country in the
environmental-productive field, and examines future
challenges for which a green growth approach could be
important. Soil erosion, water pollution from nutrients,
pesticide management, and greenhouse gas emissions represent
some of the recurring themes in the country's
decision-making. In addition, the management of water
quality and water quantity variability represent
particularly important challenges, both for production and
for the availability of water suitable for domestic
consumption.Lastly, this work includes recommendations to
generate a green growth strategy in Uruguay. For this
purpose, a five-step roadmap is proposed to promote green
growth and to advance on its strategic goals. These steps
are: identify green growth policies to boost the
country's growth, identify the environmental benefits
of these policies, establish criteria to prioritize
potential policies of green growth, design green growth
policy instruments, and establish the mechanism to evaluate
and adjust green growth policies. This roadmap is
complemented with recommendations on the institutional
framework needed to support the sustainability of a green
growth vision.This report is part of a series of five
complementary analytical products generated under the World
Bank's Green Growth Technical Assistance in Uruguay. |
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