Insights Blog

Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Economist with the World Bank, presents new research from the World Bank and the OECD on how climate change, rapid urbanization, and subsiding land are putting the world's coastal cities at increasing risk of dangerous and costly flooding.

​The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) works to change the quality of life for people most affected by climate change. CDKN’s Sam Bickersteth introduces the programme and its work on climate compatible development, and outlines how CDKN is approaching the concept of green growth.

Carlo Carraro, President of the University of Venice, and member of the GGKP Advisory Committee, discusses the importance of knowledge generation in the field of green growth and provides his reflections on the GGKP's second Annual Conference held earlier this year in Paris.

Cameron Allen, former Associate Expert with the UN Division for Sustainable Development, introduces the new UNDESA Guidebook to the Green Economy: Issue 4, which provides a global overview of the various international initiatives that are supporting countries and stakeholders to implement the green economy worldwide.

Caroline Uriarte with the LEDS Global Partnership Secretariat explains what the partnership is all about and the services it offers in this latest GGKP Partner in Focus feature.

Raphael Calel and Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics, present findings on the link between the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and patenting for low-carbon technologies.

Michael Funch, Senior Advisor with the Nordic Council of Ministers, presents the new web magazine: “Green growth the Nordic Way” which explores what green growth means for the Nordic region, and gives concrete examples of a number of sustainable development projects under the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Chris Beaton, Research and Communications Officer for IISD, discusses the impacts of fossil fuel subsidies, the challenges with removing them, and the path to reform, including an introduction to the Global Subsidy Initiative’s latest publication A Guidebook to Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform.

John Rogers, Manager for the Climate-Smart Planning Platform, introduces the new initiative and outlines its core founding principles of open source development and open data. The Climate-Smart Planning Platform, together with the GGKP, GGBP and REEEP organized a side event around these principles at the Global Green Growth Summit 2013.

The GGKP’s Knowledge Management Officer, Rachel Waddell, shares highlights from the GGKP’s recent user needs analysis, which will lay the foundations for the design and development of the GGKP’s new web platform.