Research
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.
Tools and Initiatives
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.
GGKP News
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.
Partner in Focus
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.