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ASEIC and GGGI Sign MoU to Partner on Eco-Innovation and Green Growth
10 Jan 2012

ASEIC and GGGI Sign MoU to Partner on Eco-Innovation and Green Growth


Seoul, 10 January 2012 – The ASEM SMEs Eco-Innovation Center (ASEIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a non-profit institute dedicated to supporting green growth, to facilitate the efficient and effective implementation of development cooperation in the area of green growth and eco-innovation.
 
Through this agreement signed by ASEIC Director Sean Kim and Executive Director Richard Samans, ASEIC and GGGI hope to synergize their work based on their comparative strengths. ASEIC is doing its best to support developing countries in their implementation of eco-innovative ideas and technologies in both the industrial and civil sectors while GGGI is more focused on developing customized policy options related to framework and roadmap of green growth.
 
Since August 2011, ASEIC has been implementing a project in Cambodia that trains the local people on how to manufacture and maintain solar cookers. The project is linked with the GGGI Cambodia Green Growth Program. (See the article of the Korea Times, available at http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/11/335_99623.html )
 
ASEIC is an organization that builds eco-innovation bridges between small and medium enterprises in Asia and Europe. It seeks to serve as an international platform where growing environmental regulations and eco-innovation practices are shared and new opportunities are created.
 
 
 

ASEIC’s Cambodia Project: The final objective of this bottom-up approached venture is the commercialization of the solar cooker distribution through small and medium enterprises.

 

GGGI’s Cambodia Green Growth Program: GGGI’s objective is to help Cambodia meet its goals of developing national economy, spurring job creation, and identifying new opportunities for economic growth. In doing so, GGGI’s country program for Cambodia includes both top-down and bottom-up approach, which includes establishing of a green growth legal framework, tailoring specific policies, and scoping, analyzing, and implementing plans in forestry, small and medium-sized business promotion, green job creation, and waste management (Source: GGGI)