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ERD 2011/2012: European Report on Development

December 2010 to March 2012
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Leaders: 
Dirk Willem te Velde
Team: 
Gillian Hart, Raphaëlle Faure, Imme Scholz, James Mackie, Mobolaji Oyeniji
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Throughout the world, humanity is putting unsustainable pressure on natural resources and this manifests itself in new challenges and opportunities for developing countries. Water, energy and land are intimately connected. For example, producing more food needs more water and more energy, as well as more land, and developing countries are a frequent target for investment in land for agricultural production. Trying to tackle climate change by producing bio-fuels adds to pressure on land and water. None of us can escape the consequences of the impending resource crisis.

At a meeting on 6 April 2011 in Brussels around 80 eminent academics and high-level policy makers from Europe and the South met to discuss this and what the guiding principles for the European Report on Development (ERD) 2012 should be. The following overarching question discussed at the meeting was:

What does the evidence tell us about the appropriate roles of the public and private sector, and their interactions, in managing natural resources for inclusive and sustainable growth in the context of increased scarcity and climate change?

To put this question into a sharper focus, ERD 2012 will be divided into three main parts:

  1. Context, concepts and frameworks: with attention on the land-water-energy nexus, including such issues as resource-efficient production, water access for productive uses, threats to food security, land acquisitions, and bio-fuels.
  2. Case studies: to illustrate resource scarcity, the major transitions outlined under the land-water-energy nexus, as well as the move towards a global low-carbon world by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.
  3. Policy implications: pulling together evidence and trends from the case studies that outline best practices and roles for the private sector and options for public-sector engagement, from concrete regulations/subsidies/taxes and punitive steps, to cooperative initiatives including public-private partnerships leading to better natural resource management.
International Economic Development Group
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European Commission (EC)
Seven Member States (Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom)
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
European Report on Development
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Sustainable Development Goals: From 'silo thinking' towards an integrated approach. Insights from the European Report on Development

Event - Seminar - 19 June 2012 13:30 - 15:00 (GMT-03)

The Rio+20 Conference is leading a new agenda around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), combining economic, social and environmental targets. Poor countries and the poorest people within them need growth and access to natural resources for human development – which will require socioeconomic targets. Increased pressures on the planet’s natural resources will require environmental targets.

The discussion on the SDGs should provide the opportunity to not only look at each resource individually, but also take account of the extensive linkages among resources such as water, energy and land (the “WEL nexus”).

The new European Report on Development (ERD) "Confronting Scarcity: Managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth" suggests an ambitious integrated approach, which would embrace this nexus, avoiding perverse solutions and stimulating innovation.

The ERD 2012 is an independent report prepared by ODI, DIE-GDI and ECDPM, and supported by the European Commission and seven EU Member States, including the UK. More information about the ERD: http://www.erd-report.eu/

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Roles of companies in water management - extending the boundaries of private sector responsibility?

Publication - Discussion papers - 23 May 2012
Peter Newborne
This paper reviews the policies and practices of companies in water use and water management, and considers how they manifest an evolution of private sector roles, through examples of innovation by companies in sectors that make significant use of water: beverages/drinks, tourism, and mining and energy - with agriculture also considered in two respects.
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European Report on Development 2011/2012 - Confronting scarcity: managing water, energy and land for inclusive and sustainable growth

Publication - Research reports and studies - 16 May 2012
Dirk Willem te Velde (Overseas Development Institute) James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management) and Imme Scholz (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
The third edition of the European Report on Development focuses on water, energy and land. It examines the constraints on each, the interrelationships between them and then considers how they can be managed together to promote growth in developing countries that is both socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
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The Ministerial Roundtable: Water, energy and food security nexus

Event - Round-table - 13 March 2012 08:30 - 13:00 (GMT+00)

This roundtable is co-convened by the German Government and the Government of Oman. Participants will discuss how the nexus perspective can be incorporated in local, national and international planning activities and decision making with a focus on water, food, or energy. Dirk Willem te Velde presented findings from the European Report on Development.

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Natural resource management of the water-energy-land nexus with a focus on the private sector role - European Report on Development 2011-2012 consultation

Event - Consultative event - 11 - 12 July 2011

This fourth ERD consultation, organised in partnership with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), took place in Nairobi on 11-12 July. It brought  together senior experts from all continents to discuss their views on the natural resource management of the water-energy-land nexus (WEL nexus) in developing countries with a particular focus on the role played by private actors.

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Effective natural resource management for inclusive and sustainable growth in the context of increased scarcity and climate change: What roles for the public and private sectors? - European Report on Development 2011-2012 consultation

Event - Consultation - 8 - 9 June 2011

The main purpose of this consultation event in Bonn was to inform the analysis and writing process of the European Report on Development 2011-2012, particularly chapters 6 (Water) and 7 (Energy). Various academic authors have been commissioned to write background papers for the ERD and a number of these were invited to come and present their ideas to the consultation.

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Road leading through forest. Bhutan.
Road leading through forest. Bhutan.

Road leading through forest. Bhutan
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Governance of natural resources with a focus on land - European Report on Development 2011-2012 consultation

Event - Consultation - 18 - 19 May 2011

This consultation event looked into the governance of natural resources, and more specifically at the area of investments in land for production and growth and issues arising from the access, management and conservation of land. In addition, both issues were analysed in the third part of the programme in relation to the Water-Energy-Land nexus, a key part of the analytical context to be used in the European Report on Development 2011-2012.

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European Report on Development 2012, Draft Outline - Effective natural resource management for inclusive and sustainable growth in the context of increased scarcity and climate change: what role for the public and private sector?

Publication - Discussion papers - 28 March 2011
This document is the draft outline of the next European Report on Development – ERD 2012 as presented to the ERD Steering Committee (European Commission + 7 Member States). The working title of the report is: “Effective natural resource management for inclusive and sustainable growth in the context of increased scarcity and climate change: what role for the public and private sector?”. The report will focus on a nexus of three resources: water, energy and land.
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List of Commissioned papers - ERD 2011-2012

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