| Overview : The Government of Ethiopia has developed the Climate Resilient Growth Strategy (CRGE) that aims to achieve middle-income status (MIC) by 2025. The Government, however, recognizes that a conventional development path to MIC status could result in unsustainable Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and over-exploitation of biodiversity and ecosystems. A new strategy is, therefore, required if the needed growth is not to be accompanied and ultimately undermined by biodiversity loss and high costs of environmental damage. This is especially important for the majority of Ethiopians for whom biodiversity is an important asset that help to deliver key ecosystem services (e.g. food security, clean and secure water supplies, greater resilience to extreme weather events). . . . |
