ASIA-PACIFIC CAPACITY BUILING The Asia-Pacific region has been
at the forefront of the world's recent economic growth and
activity, enabling many countries to make significant progress
in reducing poverty and enhancing the quality of life for their
citizens. However, this growth has primarily been based on
environmentally unsustainable, high carbon patterns that have
strained the carrying capacity of the environmental endowment of
countries throughout the region. In response to these issues,
Green Growth has been adopted as one of the regional strategies
for achieving sustainable development at the 5th and 6th
Ministerial Conferences on Environment and Development for Asia
and the Pacific. Green Growth is a policy focus for Asia and the
Pacific that emphasizes ecologically sustainable economic
progress to foster low carbon, socially inclusive development.
In response to the needs of policy makers and stakeholders in
the Asia-Pacific region, ESCAP, the Asian Institute of
Technology and the Regional Resource Ce