National Strategic Plan on Green Growth 2013-2030.

This National Strategic Plan on Green Growth is a multi-sectoral national document, in line with the Global Green Economy Principles approved by the United Nations in Rio+20 Conferences in Brazil in June 2012, aiming at green growth, ensuring political and macroeconomic stability to reach a status of developed country, so that to achieve the Vision of a sustainable economy development, together with environmental, social and cultural sustainability for poverty alleviation. The Green Economy envisaged by the Government of Cambodia focuses on efficient use of natural resources, environmental sustainability, green jobs, green technology, and economic reform, placing more consideration into green incentives, such as green tax, green finance, more importantly green credit, green microfinance, and green investment. These principles can be summarized in the following strategic focuses, as listed in the document (i) Green Investment and Green Jobs Creation; (ii) Green Economy Management in balance with Environment; (iii) Blue Economy Development with Sustainability; (iv) Green Environment and Natural Resources Management; (v) Human Resources Development and Green Education; (vi) Effective Green Technology Management; (vii) Promotion of a Green Social Safety System; (viii) Uphold and Protection of Green Cultural Heritage and National Identity; and (ix) Good Governance on Green Growth. Strategic objectives of the national Green Growth are to (i) increase energy efficiency; (ii) ensure food security; and (iii) glorify the national culture through growth stability, reduction and prevention of environmental pollution, safe ecosystem, poverty reduction, promotion of public health service, educational quality, natural resources management, sustainable land use, and water resources management.
To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition, the Plan focuses on fisheries and agriculture sectors, by promoting (i) increasing of yeld of fish stock to a maximum and marine aquaculture to support sufficient food supply; (ii) promotion of family fishing; and (iii) promotion of traditional agriculture for small farmers.
In order to make agriculture, fisheries and forestry more productive and sustainable, main interventions will be directed to (i) encourage private sector and farmers to use organic natural fertilizers and reduce the use of agricultural pesticides, chemical subastances and systematic crop intensification; (ii) promote awareness about green technology for the sector; (iii) attact investors to invest in green agriculture; (iv) develop irrigation system; (v) increase on rice yeld with no harm to enevironment; (vi) encourage the participation in one village one product; (vii) pepare plans for sustainable, land use, agro-industry cropping, forestry management, management of protected areas; () organize the zoning for areas to be conserved, such as community fisheries, fishery conserved area, and public fishery zone.
Poverty reduction can be coped through (i) providing for financing services, green banking, and green products; and (ii) continuing in not to levy taxes on agricultural lands and maintain tradition of sustainable farming.
In order to enhance more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the Government shall encourage reasonable pricing for natural production factors, reasonable raw materials and reasonable end-user products in line with green international economy principles.
The resilience of livelihoods to disasters can be faced at different levels by (i) promoting green investments, both financial and technical, to ensure environmental impacts reduction, improving the quality of environment, ecosystem preservation, biodiversity conservation, reduction of energy and natural resources uses, reduction of carbon emission and environmental pollution; (ii) encouraging the use of renewable energy, energy-saving and efficiency, and effective use of raw resources; (iii) developing green infrastructure and green transports; (iv) enhancing efficinet use of natural resources and waste management by implementing the Polluter Payer Principle; (v) increasing the carbon storage capacity through a mechanism of payment for ecosystem services; (vi) promoting the Blue economy through the management of natural resources of the sea and marine ecosystem; (vii) managing the marine pollution, including waste management, to protect marine health and biodiversity; (viii) studying the climate change effects on level rise and coastal soil erosion to prepare plans for he prevention and protection against disasters at the sea; and (ix) promoting sustainable water resources management by improving water infrastructure, build water reservoirs, irrigation schemes.
As for the Governance it is essential (i) promote a public administration reform consisting of close linkage with both the decentralizated institutions and the civil society and private sector; (ii) promote a machanism for coordination and correct organization; (iii) prepare green tax categories in line with green growth principles and use theese green taxes as an incentive tool for green growth; (iv) prepare an effective managemnt mechanism in transistion to a green economy; and (v) promote participation in implementation of green economy principles from all relevant ministries, institutions and development partners.