Insights Blog

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.

Marcelo Giugale, the World Bank’s Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa, discusses how to make growth greener without slowing it down.

Dagfinn Høybråten, the Nordic Council of Ministers' Secretary General, presents the Nordic Prime Prime Ministers' green growth initiative and explores what green growth “the Nordic Way” entails.

Anja von Moltke, Acting Head of UNEP's Trade, Policy and Planning Unit, outlines the imperative for greening international trade, as presented in the new UNEP Report: "Green Economy and Trade - Trends, Challenges and Opportunities."

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.

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."