Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy
The Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE)’s vision is achieving middle-income status by 2025 in a climate-resilient green economy, outlining four pillars:
• Agriculture: Improving crop and livestock production practices for higher food security and farmer income while reducing emissions
• Deforestation: Reducing emissions by protecting and re-establishing forests for their economic and ecosystem services including as carbon stocks
• Power: expanding electricity generation from renewable energy for domestic and regional markets
• Transportation, industrial sectors and buildings: Leapfrogging to modern and energy efficient technologies
The strategy targets climate change mitigation and adaptation. It sets a target to limit 2030 emissions to 150 Mt CO2e (level of 2010 emissions), approximately 250 Mt CO2e less than in the business as usual scenario. It also establishes a target to increase generating capacity by 25,000MW by 2030 – hydro 22,000MW, geothermal 1,000MW and wind 2,000MW. There are programmes to replace wood fuel for domestic use with less polluting fuels, such as biogas. There are plans to distribute 9m stoves by 2015 and 34m by 2030.
The initiative establishes a national financial mechanism called the “CRGE Facility” to mobilise, access, sequence and blend domestic and international, public and private sources of finance to support the institutional building and implementation of the strategy.
The CRGE initially relies on existing institutions, notably the Environmental Protection Authority (which in 2013 was replaced by the Ministry of Environment and Forest), the Ethiopian Development Research Institute, six ministries, and several government agencies. Subsequent phases will strengthen institutions to implement the strategy.
Name of policy Ethiopian Programme of Adaptation to Climate Change (EPACC)
Date 2010
Summary The EPACC calls for the mainstreaming of climate change into decision-making at a national level and emphasises planning and implementation monitoring. It identifies 20 climate change risks, mainly in the following areas: health risks (human and animal); agriculture production decline; land degradation; water shortages; biodiversity; waste; displacement; distributive justice. The EPACC also identifies institutions responsible for mitigating these risks. Specific adaptation objectives include:
• Reducing impacts of droughts by cloud seeding to induce rain
• Establishing building and construction codes that ensure structures withstand extreme weather events
• Storing food and feed in good years for use in bad years
• Ensuring transportation access to disaster prone areas
• Developing insurance schemes for weather damage compensation
• Organising local communities for quick response to extreme weather events
• Preparing to cater for refugees driven out of their homes by climate change
• Mapping and delineating areas likely to suffer from climate change and extreme weather events
• Developing an accessible information network on climate change
• Developing an early warning system to alert people of impending extreme weather events
