there are many noncarbon reasons for ethiopia to pursue greener paths of development notably improving income from sustainable natural resource and biodiversity management from cleaning up pollution from recycling waste and from export opportunities eg exporting hydropower to neighbouring countries yet different issues need to be analysed here so the methodology being narrowly focused on climate change has missed these additional green growth opportunities it could also have looked at resource efficiency for example identifying how waste energy and materials have been and can be used in a wide range of activities and enterprises suited to poor groups