| Overview : Ethiopia aims to achieve carbon-neutral middle-income status before 2025. As set forth in the national Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), this leap will require increasing agricultural productivity, strengthening the industrial base, and fostering export growth in a development pathway that is both resilient to present and future climate shocks as well as low carbon intensive. The plan for delivering this is enshrined in the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy launched in November 2011. The strategy aims at unlocking economic growth, creating jobs, and delivering wider socioeconomic benefits in a low carbon trajectory. It has in this regard outlined sixty priorities for investment that will enable Ethiopia to both grow its economy while minimizing its emissions.
Improve the ability of the Ethiopian Government to realize sustainable green growth by accurately measuring and managing greenhouse gas emissions of energy (including transport), industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture, Land-Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and waste sector, and more aggressively engaging in carbon markets as a way of stimulating emission trade and investments activities by identifying low carbon options. The assignment will culminate in the production of Ethiopia`s Second National Communication for submission to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. |
