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Ecuador becomes first country to undergo innovative UNCTAD programme to assess ‘green export’ potential and policies
UNCTAD/PRESS/PR/2014/025
Geneva, Switzerland, (06 June 2014)
How can Ecuador develop national “green sectors” to create new productive capacity, employment and export diversification opportunities while promoting sustainable development? This question will be addressed at the first national workshop in a new UNCTAD green exports programme in Quito, Ecuador, on 10 and 11 June 2014.

The workshop marks the first step in an innovative process that, after a series of consultative activities with national stakeholders, will result in the first National Green Export Report (NGER) authored by Ecuadorian experts with the support of UNCTAD.

National Green Export Reports (NGERs) have been developed by UNCTAD as a response to a demand from emerging countries for assessments of national potential in environmentally and economically sustainable sectors, so as to facilitate the transition to a greener economy.

“Many developing countries require technical assistance to identify and construct effective policy reform packages needed to ensure development gains from a greening global economy,” Bonapas Onguglo, who is currently leading UNCTAD’s Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch, said. “NGERs guide national stakeholders through a structured process to identify and develop new export opportunities in green goods and services.”

Each NGER is centered on a national multi-stakeholder process in requesting countries. Using UNCTAD’s “green product space” methodology, national stakeholders first identify green sectors with promising export prospects. The NGER subsequently guides stakeholders through an interactive review of the economic, regulatory, institutional and trade policy environments characterizing these sectors…