Background
Led by the National Council for Sustainable Development (RGC), the Royal Government of Cambodia (RCG) is developing a national roadmap to promote sustainable consumption and production, known as SCP. According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), “SCP is a holistic approach to minimising the negative environmental impacts from consumption and production systems while promoting quality of life for all.” Cambodia has achieved sustained economic progress over the past two decades with an average annual growth rate of 7% between 2006 and 2019 and a reduction of its poverty rate from 52% in 2004 to 17.8% in 2020, shifting the country towards lower middle-income status in 2016. While economic growth has slowed down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in the medium term, Cambodia aims to recover from Covid-19 and become an upper middle-income country by 2030. With this transition, Cambodia is at a critical stage in its development process as it determines the best approach to ensure sustainability of its economic growth, while addressing several socioeconomic and environmental challenges and reducing poverty. With Cambodia’s commitment to the 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda and the pursuit in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change, the RGC has adapted the SDGs to the national context and has crafted a fully localized framework – the Cambodian SDGs (CSDGs). In addition to the global 17 goals (SDGs), an 18th goal requiring the clearance of landmines and unexploded ordinance was added. The final framework comprises 18 CSDGs, 88 nationally relevant targets, and 148 globally and locally defined indicators.
As the need to address environmental pressures and to achieve long-term environmental sustainability, the formulation of Cambodia’s SCP Roadmap is very significant step to support the implementation of the CSDGs and Cambodia’s National Green Growth Policy and Strategic Plan (2013-2030). The proposed SCP roadmap will enhance the implementation NCSD’s Strategic Framework 2018-2023 which aims to foster and facilitate development and implementation of policy and strategy related to sustainable development, including climate change, green growth, natural resources and biodiversity and environment protection in all sectors for the best national interest while meeting international commitments. The SCP roadmap provides an opportunity to integrate SCP into national development and sectoral plans to enhance resource efficiency and achievement of the overall CSDGs and specifically CSDG 12. Formulation of Cambodia’s SCP roadmap will engage and connect multi-stakeholders for better understanding of one another’s roles & responsibilities and raise their overall awareness and knowledge on SCP. Cambodia’s SCP roadmap will identify priorities sectors, institutional arrangements to implement policies and interventions cohesively and effectively, and targets to achieve NCSD’s Strategic Framework 2018-2023. To formulate Cambodia’s SCP roadmap successfully, a SCP scoping study has been conducted to inform the roadmap’s priority strategies and actions and provide an overview of Cambodia’s existing policies, regulations, and programs that support SCP. A range of line ministries and development partners have been consulted in the development of the scoping study.
The workshop will discuss in Khmer and English to Khmer and vice versa, and an interpreter in the workshop will be provided.
Objectives
- Present the draft SCP roadmap and to verify the information in the draft;
- Consult and collect inputs on the draft of SCP Roadmap from relevant stakeholders;
- Discuss the feasibility of the proposed actions, and the responsibilities for each of the actions.
