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On November 7, the third conference on the topic “Towards Green Economy” took place in UN office in Yerevan organized by Republican Union of Employers of Armenia (RUEA) together with Small and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Center of Armenia (SME DNC of Armenia).
Gagik Makaryan, president of RUEA, stated that the conference is aimed at raising the awareness and promoting the policy of green economy.
According to Khachik Hakobyan, RA Deputy Minister of Nature Protection, the absence of appropriate legislative and methodological bases prevents from the process of investing green economy. There are many unsolved problems in the process, which require gradual solution and mandatory support from developed countries to developing countries.
According to Ruzan Alaverdyan, RA Deputy Minister of Urban Development in the field of urban development green economy is particularly reflected in the sustainable development of cities emphasizing the green component. “If at the beginning of the 20th century the number of urban residents in the world was 19.6%, in the middle it was 29 %, and at the end of the century it was 42 %, today half of the world’s population of 3.5 billion people lives in urban areas.
According to expertise predictions in 2030 urban residents will be 60 % of the humanity, and in 2050 it will be the two-third of the humanity. Besides, in future decades the increase of cities by 95 percent will take place in developing countries.
Implementation of a number of projects is conditioned by this: Green cities, Resistant city, Sustainable city, which are directed to developing safe living area for working and living as a result of harmonic combination of natural and anthropogenic environments completing each other”, said Ruzan Alaverdyan stating that now the number of urban residents is 63.4 percent, which is a rather high indicator.
November 07, 2014 at 16:49