Insights Blog

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.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently held the 102nd Session of the International Labour Conference, where sustainable development, decent work and green jobs were on the agenda. Dorit Kemter (Expert, Green Jobs) with the International Labour Organization explains that work that ILO is doing in this area in this latest instalment of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s “Partner in Focus” feature.

CDKN’s Ari Huhtala, Director of Policy and Programme, reports on the Global Green Growth Forum’s progress to get green growth concepts into the mainstream.

​Sam Bickersteth, Chief Executive of CDKN, asks what Mozambique can show us about making development choices in a changing climate.

Jan Corfee-Morlot, Senior Policy Analyst and Environment and Development Team Leader, OECD Development Co-operation Directorate, shares her insights on the OECD's recent publication "Putting Green Growth at the Heard of Development."

The Environment for Development initiative (EfD) is one of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform’s Knowledge Partners. Gunnar Köhlin, Associate Professor at the Environmental Economics Unit, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, introduces the EfD mission, its partners, and research projects, as part of a new GGKP “Partner in Focus” feature.

Ziga Zarnic, of the OECD Environment Directorate, outlines the importance of establishing a common basis to build and mainstream a green growth measurement framework, and introduces the recent GGKP scoping paper "Moving towards a Common Approach on Green Growth Indicators."

Tamaro Kane, Special Assistant to the Chief Economist for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, writes about the GGKP's first Practitioners' Workshop taking place in Indonesia this week.

Howard Bamsey, the new Director General of the Global Green Growth Institute, discusses some exciting developments in the field of green growth, including the 2013 Global Green Growth Summit, taking place 10-11 June in Songdo, Korea.