Enabling conditions


Annex 1 – Enabling conditions: A sector overview


The following table summarises the enabling conditions that have been identified by the sector chapters in this report. It explains how each condition can enable green economic activity and be created by various measures, as well as identifying the sectors in which each measure may be particularly


Enabling condition Finance


Rationale: How it enables important. The conditions are grouped into five


themes – finance, governance, market, infrastructure and information. There is, unavoidably, some overlap among these groupings. In addition, the list of measures should be considered illustrative and not exhaustive.


Measures that can create the enabling condition


See Finance chapter


Increased availability of finance for governments and businesses in green sectors


In order for green businesses to emerge and expand, adequate levels of private investment need to be available. It may also be necessary to increase the availability of public finance so that a range of policy tools can be used to leverage private finance.


Governance


A network of laws and norms that encourage long-term and efficient management and use of natural resources and environmental protection


The right combination of rights, responsibilities, laws, incentives and agreements can encourage environmental protection and the rational use of natural resources, which can help to ensure the sustainability of the economic activities that rely on these resources. National and international organisations can be instrumental in the management of these laws and norms.


Strategic, integrated planning (e.g. establishing ‘vision’ for the future of particular sectors); baskets of comple- mentary policies; considering the effects of policies across sectors and at local, provincial, national and international levels; stakeholder recognition and consultation, etc.


Design of property rights and ecosystem access laws


Rules and regulations, standards or prohibitions (e.g. vehicle engine ef- ficiency standards, zoning laws in cities, outlawing bottom-trawling, food safety standards, waste disposal laws)


International cooperation on agree- ments, laws and organisations needed for the development of green goods and services (e.g. reducing concentration of market power in international agricul- tural value chains; preferential access for imports from low income countries; reform of international fishing laws)


Note also: The following policy tools, used primarily for their ability to correct price distortions, can also increase levels of available public finance:


Subsidy reform


Environmentally related taxation, other tax instruments, fees and charges, tradable permits


→ All


Sectors in which these measures are particularly important


→ Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Fisheries, Forests, Manufacturing, Water


→


Agriculture, Buildings, Renewable Energy, Fisheries, Forests, Manufacturing, Transport, Waste, Water


→ All


→ Agriculture, Fisheries, Water → All


Negotiated and voluntary agreements → Buildings, Cities, Forests, Manufacturing, Tourism, Waste


→ Agriculture, Fisheries, Renewable Energy, Transport, Water, Waste


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