Insights Blog

Communications Adviser Páll Tómas Finnsson, who works with the Nordic Council of Ministers on its green growth initiative, discusses the importance of gender to green growth and why the gender dimension is being integrated into all activities forming part of the Nordic Prime Ministers’ green growth initiative.

Chris Stephens, Program Manager with GGGI, presents some of the highlights of the GGGI Indonesia team's work in 2013, including deep dive assessments of selected green technologies, the transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of REDD+ in Indonesia and the application of cost-benefit analysis in green growth planning.

Welcome to the new web platform of the GGKP! In this "Insights" post, Benjamin Simmons, Head of the GGKP, discusses the web platform's aim and presents an overview of its unique features.

​Eva Grambye, Special Envoy for the Global Green Growth Forum, talks about the exciting progress in the preparations for the third annual Global Green Growth Forum, taking place in Copenhagen October 21-22 2013.

​In June 2013, the OSLO Consortium initiated the public-private dialogue “New Opportunities from Natural Wealth Management” in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Out of the dialogue, five practical lessons were identified to scale up green growth in the region. Christina Wollesen, Siv Øystese and Simone Quatrini from the Global Mechanism outline why these are a good place to start for any economy that’s putting green growth on the agenda.

​Rachel Waddell, Senior Advisor for GGGI, reports on the Economics of Green Growth Conference, organised in October 2013 by GGGI, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

​Amanda McKee, Communications and Outreach Officer for the GGKP, shares her reflections on a set of GGKP interviews carried out with thought leaders in the field of green growth.

In this GGKP Partner in Focus feature, Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), talks about DIE’s work in the field of Green Growth.

Fatema Rajabali of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, introduces the Knowledge Navigator, a CDKN-sponsored tool that allow users to find and access information on over 100 climate change focused knowledge platforms.

Nidhi Kalra, Senior Decision Scientist at the World Bank, introduces new methodologies to help policy-makers make better decisions when faced with uncertainty and disagreement. In a series of upcoming blog posts, she and her colleagues will present concepts and examples of how this innovative work is being applied on the ground.