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Shedding light on why green economy is crucial to achieving sustainable growth in Africa, this blog post draws on lessons learnt from the UNEP report "Building Inclusive Green Economies in Africa: From Inspiration to Actions" and the discussions which took place at a recent UNEP regional workshop on "Inclusive Green Economies for poverty reduction and sustainable development in Africa".

Steven Stone, UNEP, discusses AMCEN – the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, which occurred at Cairo during the first week of March 2015.

Anna Pegels, German Development Institute (DIE), discusses new discussion paper 'Green Industrial Policy: Managing Transformation under Uncertainty'.

The GGKP's Fiscal Instruments Research Committee commissioned Kai Schlegelmilch to produce the paper 'Fiscal considerations in the design of green tax reforms', which he co-authored with Amani Joas. In this blog they discuss some of the conclusions from their paper.

Winner of the Best Young Researcher Paper prize at the GGKP's Third Annual Conference, Prudence Dato discusses some of the conclusions from his paper Energy transition under irreversibility: a two-sector approach.

Winner of the Best Overall Paper prize at the GGKP's Third Annual Conference, Max Franks, discusses some of the conclusions from his paper co-authored with Ottmar Edenhofer and Kai Lessmann, 'Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account'.

Ryan Parmenter, Policy Analyst in the OECD Environment Directorate’s Green Growth and Global Relations Division, discusses his experiences at the GGKP's Third Annual Conference.

Stefania Lovo, Mintewab Bezabiah and Gregor Singer explain the findings of their latest report, ‘Green agricultural policies and poverty alleviation’ published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science. The report was produced as part of the Grantham Research Institute’s programme on ‘Growth and the economy’, sponsored by the Global Green Growth Institute.

The recent conference held in Venice (organized by the Green Growth Knowledge Platform) brought the importance of implementing properly designed green fiscal reforms to the attention of academics and policymakers in most world countries. The objective is obviously environmental protection and climate change control, but also the setting of fairly uniform regulatory and taxation frameworks to avoid competitiveness concerns in those countries adopting more stringent environmental policies. Or to avoid excessive social problems in developing countries, because social impacts of green fiscal reforms are of often as important as the environmental ones.

Sam Bickersteth, CDKN’s Chief Executive, and Ari Huhtala, Deputy CEO, report from the GGKP's Third Annual Conference.