Qatar Joins New International Organization to Promote Green Growth

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Qatar Joins New International Organization to Promote Green Growth PR Newswire RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21, 2012 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Qatar joined sixteen other industrialized, emerging economies and developing countries on Wednesday in signing the Agreement on the Establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute. This agreement will convert the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a think tank founded in 2010 and based in Seoul, Korea, into an international organization. GGGI is dedicated to pioneering a new model of environmentally sustainable economic growth. Its conversion into an international organization is expected to facilitate GGGI's mission to develop and diffuse green growth as an economic model around the world. The main goal of GGGI is to promote a paradigm shift in economic development – an approach which targets both economic performance and environmental sustainability – to address climate change and serve as a pathway to sustainable development. GGGI partners with developing countries and emerging economies, including least developed countries, to develop green growth strategies and plans that deliver poverty reduction, job creation and social inclusion in an environmentally sustainable way. The initiative reflects much of the same vision the State of Qatar has for its own growth and development.

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Promote Green Growth

PR Newswire

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 21, 2012

RIO DE JANEIRO

June 21, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Qatar

joined sixteen other

industrialized, emerging economies and developing countries on Wednesday in

signing the Agreement on the Establishment of the Global Green Growth

Institute. This agreement will convert the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI),

a think tank founded in 2010 and based in

Seoul, Korea

, into an international

organization.

GGGI is dedicated to pioneering a new model of environmentally sustainable

economic growth. Its conversion into an international organization is expected

to facilitate GGGI's mission to develop and diffuse green growth as an economic

model around the world.

The main goal of GGGI is to promote a paradigm shift in economic

development – an approach which targets both economic performance and

environmental sustainability – to address climate change and serve as a

pathway to sustainable development. GGGI partners with developing countries

and emerging economies, including least developed countries, to develop

green growth strategies and plans that deliver poverty reduction, job creation

and social inclusion in an environmentally sustainable way.

The initiative reflects much of the same vision the

State of Qatar

has for its own

growth and development. Through the leadership of His Highness the Emir

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the nation continues to invest significantly in

research and development as a means for addressing the challenges of

sustainable growth. GGGI is one of several such multinational collaborations in

which

Qatar

has stepped up to lead.

Since its establishment, GGGI has maintained its founding vision of becoming a

multi-stakeholder, hybrid international organization based on partnership

between developed and developing countries as well as between the public and

private sectors. In a similar spirit, the

State of Qatar

is in the process of

establishing the Global Dry Land Alliance (GDLA), a partnership among arid and

semi-arid countries facing the threat of food and water insecurity.

Former Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo, who served as the Chair of the

GGGI Board of Directors, said, "Today's signing of the Agreement on the

Establishment of GGGI as an international organization marks a new chapter in

the institutional development of GGGI, more forcefully committing itself

hereinafter to the global promotion of green growth paradigm. I am sure that

this will help herald a new era of global sustainability as well as human welfare."

Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will take over as Board

Chair from July.

Qatar

is proud to join the GGGI and add our voice and vision to the

development of this important work," said His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad

Al-Attiyah, Chairman of Qatar Administrative Control and Transparency

Authority and head of the Qatari delegation to the Rio+20 UN Summit on

Sustainable Development. "As a nation we believe it is our responsibility to

invest today in the technologies and practices required to build a healthy and

prosperous future for the next generation." His Excellency Dr. Khalid bin

Mohammed Al-Attiya, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, signed the

agreement on behalf of the

State of Qatar

GGGI Executive Director Richard Samans thanked the signatory governments

for their leadership and said, "The agreement you have signed today creates a

new kind of international organization for the 21st century: interdisciplinary;

multistakeholder and driven by the practical priorities of emerging and

developing countries which are seeking to engineer a new model of growth and

development that achieves strong, broad-based progress in living standards

with greater resource security and environmental sustainability."

In addition to

Qatar

, 16 countries agreed to convert GGGI from a Korean

foundation to an international organization, including

Australia

Cambodia

Costa Rica

Denmark

Ethiopia

Guyana

Kiribati

Mexico

Norway

Papua New

Guinea

Paraguay

the Philippines

, Republic of Korea,

United Arab Emirates

, the

United Kingdom

, and

Vietnam

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