Insights Blog

Marouissa Kelp of the OECD presents new research showing that well-designed green policies not only secure long-term wellbeing, but can uphold current productivity levels too.

Negotiations towards a Climate Treaty are picking up. This blog post argues that the ongoing negotiations for an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) are a small but meaningful test for following up on progress towards meeting the requirements that will be necessary for a meaningful Climate Treaty.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has espoused a commitment to sustainable development, yet current WTO rules are in tension with global environmental protection efforts. Understanding and improving WTO law in the area of the environment is crucial to regulating and incentivizing certain subsidies benefiting renewable energy. Green subsidies and the WTO, authored by Steve Charnovitz and posted as a World Bank working paper, provides a tool to assist governments in adopting green subsidy measures that comply with somewhat ill-defined WTO laws, and presents a call to action to improve these WTO rules in the area of renewable energy.

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato explain the findings of their latest report, ‘The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness’, produced as part of the Grantham Research Institute’s programme on ‘Growth and the economy’, sponsored by the Global Green Growth Institute.

Simon Zadek, co-director of the UNEP's Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, discusses the financing of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Eleanor Bell, DCED, discusses corporate social responsibility and options for ensuring greener practices for private sector development.

Shelagh Whitley, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), discusses a new ODI report that reveals that G20 governments are continuing to subsidise exploration for fossil fuels, despite strong warnings from the IPCC about the impact of climate change.

Maroussia Klep, OECD, discusses strategies for waste reduction, the opportunities and challenges.

Ulf Narlock, from the World Bank and Co-chair for the GGKP Metrics and Indicators Research Committee, discusses the role of sustainability and green growth in reducing poverty and the recently released Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015.

Nathalie Girouard, OECD, discusses the upcoming Green Growth and Sustainable Development (GGSD) Forum, which will examine the social implications of green growth.