environmental services/ Macao
28-29 January 2008
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Environmental Services: Policy
Innovation and Business
Opportunities
Sitanon JESDAPIPAT, Ph.D.
Center for Natural Resources and
Environmental Management (NREM
Center)
Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai
environmental services/ Macao
28-29 January 2008
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Environmental Protection and
services
Eco-efficiency needed, as natural endowment
& carrying capacity run low, and business
needs to adjust, not to mention needed
changing consumption patterns of countries
Green business to meet “new” demands and
to capture market opportunities, but beyond
CSR?
Policies pave ways for above adjustments,
but how would governments react to changes
and needs (e.g., lower emissions)?
environmental services/ Macao
28-29 January 2008
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Four Discussion Points
Environment is development capital, increasingly
there is a need to protect and rehabilitate natural
resources (but “new” need to target ecosystem,
rather than environment; hence, eco-efficiency, not
environmental efficiency)
Policy innovation is needed in the globalized and
‘chaotic’ world; old paradigm out of fashion and
inadequate in ensuring effective protection (eco-
efficiency)
Business, inevitably, is the change agent, not
governments, but is CSR adequate?
No, need to go beyond CSR, yes, but what and how?
environmental services/ Macao
28-29 January 2008
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Basic Premise: Environment
and Development = Survival
Choice?: Environment or development
= extinct
SD remains a big challenge to
implementation, But How?
Given CC, human survival questioned!
Hence, environment = development to
provide solutions (win-win)
But win-win = win-win-win is realistic
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28-29 January 2008
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Environment as development
capital
Avoidance
Protection
Highest and best use ? (minimalists?)
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Rehabilitate
SD = Factor 4 in development, greening
North and “Leap frog” in South
Resources flows = environmental flows
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